Red Bull The Winter Edition Fuji Apple & Ginger Sugar Free Energy Drink Review

Removing sugar from the delicious equation that is this year's Winter Edition from Red Bull hopefully does not result in the company falling onto the "Naughty List." The can is much of the same, though the blue "sugar free" branding looks out of place against the warm yellow and red gradient, and we really did not need to have it in multiple places; the twelve ounce transport simply does not offer enough aluminum real estate for all this text.

This year's Winter Edition, again, tastes like apple, though the exact varieties are a bit more muddled here, the ginger even less visible. But it is still pretty good! The lack of any cultivar in particular results in an experience with the homogenized appeal of commercial apple juice, though none of that fresh fruit nectar is found inside these metal walls. The resulting golden colored cocktail lacks the subtlety of its non-diet brethren, sips where you could practically taste the fresh flesh of the fruit, each bite bursting with moist ambrosia as it drips down your chin. That does not happen this time around, which is OK as the whole production remains equally drinkable. Synthetic sweeteners sucralose and ace-k replace actual carbohydrates, doing a fine job in the taste but failing in the subject of texture; the mouthfeel is less satisfying, unable to mimic the sensation of the thin red, yellow or green peel one expects when munching into one of the autumn orbs. Fortunately acidity remains appropriately almighty, which helps keep any nasty side-effects from the diet honeys at bay.

Red Bull is in dire need of an ingredient cocktail overhaul- the B vitamins, taurine and 114 milligrams of caffeine simply not enough in 2025. Unless, of course, that means I just have to drink two cans, which I would not mind all that much.

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