Root 9 Panax Gold Vitality Drink Review

Root 9 Gold is a peculiar product, an energy drink in all ways except by the text on the can. "Vitality" is the term at play here, but it makes for confusing marketing that is surely to put-off consumers. The design, however, is appealing, its stark gold coloring standing proud against the brooding blackness of many other caffeinated cocktails.

Compared to its Panax Red brother, the flavor is a massive disappointment, a bitter exercise in how a lack of faith can destroy a flavor. There is something charming to be savored here, a distant interpretation of pineapple and lemon that bask in the potable's extreme sourness. In fact, your lips will curl and your eye will twitch once or twice once the tartness touches your tongue. Somehow though, it works in tandem, not against, the critical flaw here, which is bitterness. Whether it is the ginseng, green tea, or by-design, your mouth is coated in a layered veneer of funky pungency; it is something you actually first notice once you crack open the can, a disgusting perfume that wafts from the gaping aluminum into your unsuspecting nose. Erythritol and stevia are responsible for sweetness, but the duo demonstrate an unwillingness to challenge the overwhelming earthiness and aggressive acidity. It is a lethargic saccharinity, one that needed to take control back of the experience, but instead lets the nastiness run the show.

Fifty milligrams of caffeine, 500 mg of red ginseng, several B vitamins, and vitamin C, make up the energy blend here, and make for an unimpressive kick. The wheels really fall off here- you can get past a disgusting flavor if the buzz was worthwhile. Unfortunately, the potation's distracted narrative keeps the drink from more consumer's hands.

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Root 9 Panax Red Vitality Drink Review

Root 9 comes in two flavors, Red and Gold, a naming convention more like cigarettes than energy- wait, I mean vitality, drinks. Aside from the meager, and internet purported, fifty milligrams of caffeine, this twelve ounce can masquerades as your typical energy beverage. It is at least cleanly designed, but its oracular artifice is more confusing than effective.

Lightly tumbled, this carbonated potation has a terrific bite; a sour, earthy kick that balances the thin line between bitter and piquant. Its acidity is puckering and bodes brilliantly to the experience's relaxed saccharinity, accomplished with sucralose and ace-k. The sugar system's own chemical acridness is guised almost impressively by the coarse tartness, with minimal aftertaste tasted through the resilient acerbity. With all those sentences, it is hard to forget we have yet to discuss the potable's actual taste, which is a tenebrous blend of inchoate fruits muddled together and buried well beneath the citric sharpness. The ginseng and green tea makes every sip a polysemous mix of produce, the inconspicuous citrus and bleary berry flavors proving decidedly less interesting than the homey acidulousness.

Each can contains: the aforementioned quantity of caffeine, B vitamins, vitamin C, and 500 milligrams of red ginseng. Any energy derived is minor, a buzz lasting unexcitingly under an hour. In the end, Root 9 Panax Red's flavor deserves more potency and more explicit gimmick.

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