Sparkling Ice + Caffeine Strawberry Citrus Review

This is an energy drink. It does not matter what Sparkling Ice calls itself. Its confused identity really distracts from the potential marketability- who is going to buy this? Without a clear target audience, this sixteen ounce can finds itself in stores at end caps, away from the other energy drinks who know what they are.

Strawberry Citrus certainly does taste like strawberry. There it is, that is the review. Of course that is not all- the front of the can calls for citrus, a nebulous nom de plume that introduces nothing to the experience. You taste only the outwardly seeded fruit, right down to the acidity, which has a soft edge of sweetness to keep it from harshly landing on the palate. Sucralose is the lone sweetener, the synthetic sugar missing its usual ace-k partner, but the flavor does not falter in its absence; your tongue suffers none of the expected chemical burn. Carbonation is another successful area, a smooth effervescence that seldom resembles any commercial seltzer. Take that for what it is worth. It all makes for a pleasant but dimensionless experience, with every sip sipping identically to your first, and by the last gulp of the available sixteen ounces, your taste buds are discouraged by the lack of discovery and depth.

Just seventy milligrams of caffeine? Why would they do that? I repeat: this is an energy drink! The buzz lasts an hour and a half, a weak rising, riding, and climaxing kick. Other ingredients include various vitamins and antioxidants. In the end, Sparkling Ice + Caffeine Strawberry Citrus is afraid of its own self.

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Juice Monster Strawberry Lemonade Energy Drink Review

There is likely some audience for a patriotic energy drink, but in today's climate, why take that chance? Just produce a potent potable all people would feel comfortable purchasing, but then again I what do I know? I have only been reviewing these things for over a decade. The can itself is pleasant enough, with a monster truck, woman in a bikini, an eagle wearing gun glasses and a bandanna, and my personal favorite, a ripped George Washington on a motorcycle. You might call it a white can; I call it white trash.

At least the taste is pretty good. Pretty damn good, actually. While neither piece of produce achieves a level of verisimilitude found in nature, its simplicity is refreshing in an age of constant caffeinated evolution. The berry brings with it sweetness, a fruity reprieve from the sometimes harsh acidic bite of the citrus. But this sourness is able to withstand the fifty one gram onslaught of carbohydrates, lingering just long enough in the back of your tongue, refreshed with every subsequent sip. Sugar, glucose and sucralose steer the sweetness, there are forty seven grams of the sweet stuff after all, and if you can ignore the little doctor angel on your shoulder, they do provide a really good texture. It is weighted without being heavy, toothsome without becoming gritty. But we should really talk about juice: what little we actually have comes to us from apple and lemon- that is right, strawberry, despite receiving top-billing, is nothing but a "natural flavor." And yet that is not the best part: what is is how we get just five percent nectar, despite a whopping 200 calories. Obesity is the American way, after all.

I really wish we had more than 160 milligrams of caffeine, but that is just the world we live in. Taurine, inositol, vitamins, etc., are all here in standard measure, but come on, this is the country's birthday, do you not think we need a little extra oomph to celebrate?

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Monster Strawberry Shot Energy Drink Review

What is Monster doing? They have all these different sub-lines, and they decided to risk their premier product by shoehorning in strawberry? And what is worse is the visuals: the crimson gradient and flavor text is all we get to differentiate this from their flagship variety. Listen, if I were in a rush and was craving a can of the famous soft drink for some reason, I could easily pick this can up by mistake, and I refuse to take responsibility for that hypothetical.

My palate probed for any of the promised, fleshy red fruit, but all it got was exhausting familiarity. Bubble gum, Granny Smith apple and vanilla, with perhaps a touch of white grape, crashes down on the tongue with all the grace an energy drink called "Monster" can have. It is something this energy fiend has experienced hundreds of times (but who is counting), but because I am constantly on the search for new potent potables, there is a certain level of comfort in its boilerplate. Sugar, glucose and sucralose sweeten and they go overboard; with fifty three grams of the sweet stuff (over 100% of your daily intake, I might add), I can just feel my dentist waking up in a cold sweat at yet another cavity to fill. Still, despite that brobdingnagian quantity, most sips are more sour than saccharine, which I appreciated. But as the gulps keep being gulped, the only difference comes towards the end, where the acidity dissipates and is replaced by a newfound sweetness, some indistinct fruitiness lurking well beneath the taste of simple carbohydrates. It is probably the strawberry that the can talks about, but why is it so afraid of its own flavor?

With a decent 160 milligrams of caffeine, not to mention all that sugar, the buzz here is a decent, two and a half hour long one. I should probably also disclose the involvement of things like B vitamins, taurine and inositol, so there, I did. In the end, Monster Strawberry Shot is another, self-cannibalizing offering from the energy drink heavyweight.

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Spylt Caffeinated Strawberry Milk Review

Well slap the coffee out of my hands and color me surprised- today finds us a caffeinated strawberry milk! Actually, this is more a strawberry protein shake ala Muscle Monster, but hey, lemme have this fantasy; the one every young energy fiend dreams of in the cafeteria of their high school, still being served those little cartons of moo juice. The can, however, is a bit of a mess, the white text failing to read well off of the red and pink background.

Pouring out thick like eggnog and hued like bismuth subsalicylate, you take your first sip and by-golly, does this take me back to when I was just a young little Caffeine Prince: this tastes exactly like strawberry milk, and I am all for it. What the fruit lacks in subtle sweetness, bright nuance and fresh juiciness, it more than makes up for by sipping like my youth. The twenty milligrams of protein hardly have any influence over the experience, its usual chalky mouthfeel gone in favor of phenomenal creaminess. What is most surprising though is how the eleven ounce offering offers zero grams of fat, ultrafiltered "skim milk blend" taking the number one spot on the ingredient list. Carrageenan no doubt does much of the textural heavy lifting, somehow able to properly impersonate the milky lush. And then there is the ace-k and sucralose, who handle the sweetening, never taste outwardly artificial, each mouthful being just the right level of saccharine. It might be overly simple and even a bit juvenile, but I could easily crush another Spylt can.

There are just sixty milligrams of my namesake stimulant; it is an unfortunate amount, since the lovely flavor could have easily stood up against a few dozen more milligrams. But with a flavor this good, who the hell cares?

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G Fuel Miami Nights Energy Drink Review

Sitting on a dented dollar store shelf, the design to G Fuel Miami Nights is incredible; the 80's called, they want their can back. Oh sure, text is again an issue here, with words written in all sorts of different sizes, colors, fonts and directions, but I mean, just look at it! This is the sort of design that makes you want to hop into your Pontiac Firebird and cruise on a lone highway in your own driving montage.

Pouring out crystal clear and smelling indistinctly of pleasant fruits, things fly right off the rails the second the bubbly elixir touches your tongue. Coconut, an expected player as mentioned at the top of its metal transport, quickly becomes all you can often taste, like drinking suntan lotion after you have already spent hours in the hot summer sun- what you need is to quench your thirst, not drink your own lather! Letting the tawdry liquid sit a second more on your taste buds, the often shredded and sweetened drupe gives way slightly to strawberry, another anticipated appearance, a piece of produce who thrives in sweetness but decides to instead bring with it some acidity. And I love making my lips pucker, but the tartness here is a lactic sourness, like a container of yogurt not appreciating a stay under that aforementioned orb of fire in the sky. Ace-k and sucralose, in that order, are in command of the overall sugariness, but this is not the kind of experience that would be any better with a single gram of honest carbohydrates; this is a rough sixteen ounces, my hand trembling as bound by my critic-duty to go in for another mouthful.

With just 140 milligrams of caffeine, G Fuel disappoints me further with a paltry kick. Lasting something south of two hours, the kick here could have rescued the overall product. Vitamins and amino acids are also present, but this, my friends, is no present.

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Red Bull The Amber Edition Strawberry Apricot Sugar Free Energy Drink Review

What an idea Red Bull has here to repurpose their 2022 "Summer Edition," remove the sugar and bam, you have a brand-spanking new release. The can is largely identical, save for some incongruous blue blotches denoting its diet nature, and you have to wonder why there is so much text! Appearing in different fonts, sizes, colors and importance, this is just hard for your eyes to make sense of.

The flavor is a disaster, launching with this ugly acidity that is sour in the way spoiled dairy is, not the way freshly-plucked produce is. Your tongue winces in disgust the second it pours out from the twelve ounce can, looking to the sugar-free sugars for backup perhaps? No no no, sorry, the sucralose and ace-k here has zero compunction about their laziness, sweetening the experience only in the sense that this does not taste like a bunch of random chemicals. As for what this actually tastes like, strawberry might be half of what you read but it is all you get, a miserable impersonation of a summer favorite that displays no sense of momentum, just tumbling out from the thin aluminum walls and dies right there on the spot. Its rotting body is what you are expected to quench your thirst on- yum yum yum.

114 milligrams of caffeine means the buzz fails to satisfy in any meaningful way- yeah I mean sure, taurine, B vitamins, etc., also appear, but remember this: millions do not consume coffee because it contains vitamins. Anyway, Red Bull The Amber Edition Strawberry Apricot Sugar Free sucks.

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Monster Ultra Strawberry Dreams Energy Drink Review

At some point, Monster will run out of fruits to exploit with their "Ultra" sub-brand, but for now, we have to settle with second-tier energy drink flavors like today's offering of strawberry. That is not a slight to strawberries mind you, and to avoid getting myself into trouble, let us just say that there is a reason why potent potables seldom feature such a flavor.

It is also worth noting that the back of the can proudly proclaims the produce's purported part in Valentine's day, um, fun, yet I did not spot a can until recently. Monster, you can apologize by sending me some actual aphrodisiacs.

There are some things that simply do not translate well to a sixteen ounce experience; every sip is sorely lacking the subtly to fully exploit the bright flavor of the red flesh. It crashes the palate's but arrives without any fruit backup, so gulp after gulp you are left wondering if perhaps some pineapple or hell, some lemon, could have helped. But the biggest issue is the acidity, which has a a sort of dairy-twang to it, like a carbonated yogurt. Erythritol and sucralose sweeten but are unable to combat the tartness in any meaningful way; the use of honest carbohydrates could have worked wonders here, providing texture to help distance mouthfuls from its snafued sourness. This just is not that pleasant to consume.

We get 150 milligrams of caffeine, a fine amount but not enough to reward you for stomaching such an uninteresting taste. The buzz lasts two hours and, oh yeah, there is also some B vitamins, taurine, ginseng, and others. In the end, Monster Ultra Strawberry Dreams is more of a nightmare.

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Rockstar Recovery Strawberry Lemonade Energy Drink Review

Rockstar is a brand that even I, someone who writes about energy drinks weekly, cannot keep up with. Is this a new variety? Gee I hope so, otherwise I am just wasting time. Visually, the can is a mess, with words, colors and images all flying in different directions that it is impossible to get even the foggiest idea what this is supposed to be. Did you know this is non-carbonated? No? Yeah me neither.

Utilizing coconut water was smart on behalf of Rockstar, as it gives mouthfuls some body seldom seen in a sugar free energy drink. Well, I say "sugar free" but in reality we have about a gram here, no doubt from the three percentage of juice, so do not go holding me accountable on such a technicality. For actual flavor we do in fact taste strawberry but very little lemonade, in fact we have only the faintest faction of citrus, a vague fruitiness that contributes acidity and almost nothing else. But it is not bad! Sips are pleasant enough, never exactly complex, but its under-demanding nature bodes well with the otherwise flat effervescence, crafting something passively engaging.

160 milligrams of caffeine, the only real reason to consume a potent potable, is hardly doing it now-a-days. Sure, you get that usual two or so hour long buzz, but so what? So many stronger cocktails exist that such a lackadaisical elixir is lacking. Overall, Rockstar Recovery Strawberry Lemonade does its job then goes home, which is exactly what I am gonna do.

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Red Bull The Summer Edition Strawberry Apricot Energy Drink Review

Red Bull's annual "summer edition" energy drink returns, just in time for spring. The can applies a color scheme more appropriate for an orange or perhaps just the apricot portion of its alleged dual flavor "strawberry apricot," being just a shade different from some of the company's previous potations.

Your first sip is strawberry all the way, a domineering sapor that buries the poor apricot impression beneath an inappropriately sour tang. What makes it so unbefitting, your tongue asks? It has less to do with the acidic appearance and more with the tartness' personality, rocking the palate with the pungency of a turned dairy. Imbibes resemble a carbonated yogurt more so than any energy drink in recent memory, an element expected from a generic or discontinued disaster and not a big-budget Red Bull. Sweetness, thirty eight grams of sugar and glucose, lacks the aptitude to put the acridity behind, creating a crooked cocktail of cacophony.

With 114 milligrams of caffeine, the buzz is only so-so, lasting two hours, maybe more if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Other ingredients include B vitamins and taurine. Overall, Red Bull The Summer Edition Strawberry Apricot is a bad omen to the actual upcoming sunny season.

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Bang Delish Strawberry Kiss Energy Drink Review

Bang Delish Strawberry Kiss no doubt is meant to capitalize on Valentines Day, but looking at my handy-dandy calendar, that holiday is long past. Perhaps I found it late, and it had been stocked on energy drink shelves well before that, but who knows? The can fits the bill of something that should come paired with chocolate and a card, but outside of this lovers context, it is just another piece of painted metal.

Strawberry is a difficult flavor to manufacture, its delicate profile is so often masked by a candy influence and likely other flavors. Bang is takes a sort of compromised approach, overindulging in artificial sweetness but maintaining a hearty acidity that is playful enough to inspire thoughts of the actual fruit. It is this bouncy tartness that moves the experience out from the synthetic sugar shackles so commonly trapping such potent potables, giving sips a brief shot of freshness. This slight refreshing bite almost finishes every imbibe cleanly, of course until the true issue of the potation comes into sight, its medicinal aftertaste. This feature destroys much of the "good" the product has so far made, although if there was a positive, it is that another gulp washes away much of this nasty influence- that is until those ounces move from your mouth to your gut.

Fans of the brand anticipate a three to four hour kick, and well, that is what you get here. 300 milligrams of caffeine remains an impressive amount, although I am less convinced of the other ingredients have much do with this. Other supplements B vitamins, amino acids and, well, if you are reading this review you no doubt know what to expect. Overall, Bang Delish Strawberry Kiss is not quite the romantic smack on the lips it promises.

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Rockstar Pure Zero Tangerine Mango/Guava Strawberry Energy Drink Review

What the hell kind of flavor is "Tangerine Mango/Guava Strawberry?" Why do we need four fruits? And if we do really need all of them, why do we need to list them all? Is "Tropical Punch" too vague? The can is a sunny mess, a bright, bubbly distraction that does not sell its tetrad of tastes.

The flavor does not really remind my tastebuds of much, the strawberry is probably the most noticeable, thanks large part due to its acidity, the only fruit that introduces anything beyond a most basic characteristic. The "mango/guava" feature is perhaps the most disappointing, a misleading pairing that tastes far removed from either of those two pieces of produce. They sip without excitement, a barely noticed duo that exist more like text on a can than flavors in an experience. Tangerine is another missed opportunity; every imbibe is without a question completely removed from ever resembling the citrus, a normally potent, powerhouse of a fruit is diluted into a dismissive, diminutive blip on the beverage's flavor radar. Saccharinity, a threeway between erythritol, ace-k and sucralose, is a rare positive here, sure, you tongue would never mistake it for actual sugar, but the lack of any artificial aftertaste is a rare sight for something masking so many milligrams of bitter caffeine.

The kick is the only real highlight, sporting a solid 240 milligrams of my namesake chemical. The buzz is quick, hitting you before your final sip and lasting four hours beyond it. Overall, Rockstar Pure Zero Tangerine Mango/Guava Strawberry has too many ideas without any clue how to execute them.

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Rockstar Boom Whipped Strawberry Energy Drink Review

Similar to its orange sibling, the can to this Rockstar Boom is bombastic and unfocused, tossing a myriad of text and shapes at your eyes. It is not pretty and intentionally so; the bright red captures your attention instantly, and its crazy organization does not let it go.

Strawberry milk perfumes pour out from the top of the can, reminiscent of last year's warmly received Muscle Monster variety of the same flavor. However, Rockstar takes a wildly different approach from both that and the other aforesaid Boom drink. On the tongue firstly is a thinly textured but weighted fluid, a milky mouthfeel with not enough milky taste. There is skim milk and pure cream somewhere in the long list of ingredients, but no sip convinces you of this, you instead finding yourself double-checking the backside of the can just to make sure. Next up to bat is the strawberry, tasted completely separate from the creamy artifice and lacks both a fresh tartness and honeying sweetness, the fruit unprosperously natural or candied and instead an awkward hybrid. Eventually the fruit does become something its own, maturing with a shocking level of depth despite the domesticated sourness. 280 calories for what feels like two or three drinks aimlessly stitched together, this latest extension of the brand is wonderfully chaotic and bizarre that I can only recommend for being just that.

Each can contains a ton of sugar (sixty six grams), the previously mentioned calorie count, B vitamins, milk thistle, ginseng, guarana, and 160 milligrams of caffeine. The buzz is decidedly lackluster, preforming more like a grade-school sugar rush than anything else, lasting two or so hours with one heck of a crash. In the end, Rockstar Boom Whipped Strawberry is a silly, dizzy, and irrelevant beverage that is only worth purchasing when goofiness is valued over cohesiveness, flavor, or potency.

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Mtn Dew Kickstart Strawberry Kiwi Review

Strawberry Kiwi is the second of the coconut water-containing Mtn Dew Kickstarts, a smaller can sold for the same price due to the aforementioned artifice and slightly higher juice content. The design is unexciting however, the red and white complementing each other nicely, but ultimately filled with too much text written at too many incongruous angles.

Aroma-wise, it is fantastic; really pushing the verisimilitude of the meager juice content. Surprisingly this extends to the flavor as well, tasting predominately of the strawberry but dominating without remorse. Kiwi is but text on the can, never influencing any of the sips and wasting space on the aluminum transport of this twelve ounce beverage. Its magisterial sapor is bereft of the depth needed to keep palates stimulated for the entire experience, despite its undiluted focus on the sole harvest. With its fourteen grams of sugar and synthetic sweetener blend of sucralose and ace-k, the taste wisely mimics the fruit instead of some candy-store impersonation; its sweetness simply could not handle any other interpretation of the flavor. Coconut water gives the few final sips a slight gooey texture and sour savor, especially unpleasant if the drink warms by then.

Each can contains only: caffeine (sixty eight milligrams), B vitamins, and vitamin C. For a flavor so focused on one taste, it is a shame the kick does not have the same level of dedication; a buzz lasting around an hour. Overall, Mtn Dew Kickstart Strawberry Kiwi hardly kicks and lacks any kiwi.

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Venom Low Calorie Strawberry Apple Energy Drink Review

The first new Venom in a long time, the flavor today is Strawberry Apple and appears not to have any sugared alternative available. The can has lamentably mutated from the awesome original, resealable one to the standard sixteen ounce pull-tab variety, but the intimidating design auspiciously remains intact.

Our first sip is sweet, the fruits taste gooey and saccharine with a sour, earthy bite. The initial splash on your tongue is strawberry, an honest rendition if it were not for its extreme but artificial sugariness. The sweetness additionally blurs any depth to bright red produce, bridging blandly into the later apple flavor. You hardly recognize the transformation, the oft autumn-harvest adding only a superficial taste and tartness. Erythritol, ace-k and sucralose are the sweetener-system of choice and do an indiscriminate job, never offensively not sugar but at the same time painfully not sugar. Overall, after a long hiatus, Venom comes back with a whimper.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, ginseng, and 160 milligrams of caffeine. The kick is as standard as the brand has ever been, a buzz lasting three hours on a good day. Overall, it is good to see Venom back, but their Strawberry Apple Low Calorie variety is not good.

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Hydrive Kiwi Strawberry Energy Drink Review

Pink and black are great complementing colors here, however the belt of white text lacks any stroke and struggles to be seen. The liquid itself looks refreshing and is just colored enough to appear natural, rather than an artificial cocktail of chemicals.

The cap cracks off and the salmon dyed drink sips with more dilution than it should. Saccharinity is genial but muted, leaving the namesake flavors with little energy as they slide across your tongue. Water is the forerunner of the experience, leaving strawberry to muscle out kiwi as about the only thing you taste. The fruits lack complexity, without even any tartness or other produce nuance to keep ounces interesting. Not all is lost however, as as gulps are gulped some sweetness builds and tickles the back of your throat, stained of the weak Chinese gooseberry taste and gives things some much pined intricacy. I found melon and lime in the original version of this Hydrive, but my palate begs to differ here. Either they have been removed or my mouth's talent is ebbing with age. You be the judge of that, but as the judge of this beverage, I say skip it.

Energy from this near sixteen ounce drink is decent, lasting three hours like all of its competition. Each bottle contains taurine, B vitamins, ginseng, guarana, and 160 milligrams of caffeine. Overall, Hydrive Kiwi Strawberry is the worst offering from the company. It is not bad however, and as the brand's lowest that certainly tells you something.

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Wired Strawberry Lemonade Energy Drink Review

Pathetic flames bore the generic text on this stock red can. It is Wired Strawberry Lemonade but you would not give this a second look based on its looks. Its brand is admittedly an adequate name for an energy drink, but the painted aluminum is cold, corporate and implores personality.

A trepidatious crack of the can unleashes a pleasant fragrance. But first sip is a categorical disappointment, stiff imitation of strawberry with no body or verve. The lemonade half of things fares worse, with accidentally insufficient sweetness and sourness. I regret the use of the word "lemonade," as each ounce is painfully bereft of any citrus, artificial or otherwise. Vivid effervescence tries madly to give the experience some identity, but cannot campaign against its leadened fruit imitations. Here we have a beverage of diluted taste and nugatory meaning, a flavor feckless and absurd.

An hour long kick is impermissible from a can this size. Ninety four milligrams of caffeine is far from enough. Also contains: inositol, taurine, and B vitamins. Overall, Wired Strawberry Lemonade is a fustian energy drink.

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Muscle Monster Strawberry Energy Shake Review

Too red and never really a pleasure to look at, this new Strawberry variety divulgated without fanfare. Neither the company website nor any of its social networks make any mention of this flavor, although there are plenty of useful photos of inadequately clothed women and motorbikes.

It smells like elementary school, only without the crayon odor and just the stench of strawberry milk. The flavor is enough identical to the pink dairy drink of many childhoods, thicker and perhaps only something less saccharine. Every sip inspires memories of that sugar strawberry mix that mutated otherwise healthy milk into a calorie bomb. A flavor no adult should enjoy, but those feeling nostalgic can consume this without embarrassment.

The kick lasts the average two and a half hours, although this does curb one's appetite more so than your typical energy drink. Each can contains: caffeine (158 milligrams), taurine, ginseng, B vitamins, calcium, potassium, and protein. In general, Muscle Monster Strawberry's novel flavor retards the line's thin practicality.

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Nawgan Strawberry Kiwi Energy Drink Review

This banausic looking beverage feels more like a lime or citrus variety than strawberry kiwi, thanks to the bright green. But the color is the only thing vibrant about this drink, a dull and hardly stimulating excuse of a can. The maze is unexciting and the overabundance of plain text fails to enthuse.

Fake scents climb out of the can quickly and disgust the nose, but upon first sip you are surprised and relieved about how mellow the flavor is. It thinly represents either the strawberry or the kiwi, a diluted body barely tart and devoid of any character. With enough focus you can detect both fruits, but they are drowned in an inexcusable wateriness that stretches the tastes and magnifies their stupor simpleness. Real sugar and Stevia sweeten without passion, an awkwardly sugarless eleven and a half ounces. It is a hollow experience worse off without effervescence, a dry drink disgrace to the fruits it exploits.

Each can contains: 100 milligrams of caffeine, a bit of B vitamins and some citicoline. It is hardly impressive, the blend or the buzz, lasting no more than two hours. Overall, Nawgan Strawberry Kiwi is a cacophonous product to all the senses.

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Great Value Energy Strawberry Kiwi Review

Before MiO can even release any new energy flavors, Wal Mart debuts several varieties in their own ripoff brand. Today we will be taking a look at the Strawberry Kiwi version, sporting the brand's best color scheme yet (although it almost feels a bit too "Breast Cancer Awareness"). The pink shines off of the black, and the green outlined black text find no trouble being noticed either.

Two brief squirts a sixteen ounce bottle is the recommendation, contaminating the water a dull cerise pink. There is hardly any flavor from the former few pours, so two more spritzes were injected then shaken. There is still little to taste, although the strawberry begins to ooze out from beneath the cracks of the bland wateriness. By now the liquid is soiled a solid amaranth color, never darker even with two more splashes. Now the aforementioned fruit shows simple depth and basic friendship with the promised kiwi, equally uncomplicated but far sweeter, tasted most in the back of the throat where it cloyingly stiffens. More spits offer no more intricacy and only more gelatinous and unpleasant sugariness, making for a sickly saccharine sixteen ounces that will have you wishing you had kept your water boring.

There are some B vitamins, and fifty milligrams of caffeine per spurt. Four dashes gave me a four hour buzz, but it depends all on how many drops utilized. On the whole, Wal Mart has several good energy products under their Great Value belt, but this is not one of them.

Double Kick Energy Candy Line Review

Alright, we get it, your product is a candy, but that is certainly no excuse for the unattractively childish packaging, especially if it is an adult energy candy. The name “Double Kick,” complete with a cartoony donkey, is painfully trite. It is not original, it is not fun, and with a solid eighty milligrams of caffeine per small tab, its potency should be demonstrated by a more serious, or impressive, design.

When you crunch down on any given tablet, the sorbitol based bite breaks without a satisfactory snap. Instead there is an ungainly grind of grains and grit, tasting little of the fruitiness promised (allowing the candy to dissolve is thus recommended). This is how each of the candies physically preform in the mouth, but the following explains the individual flavors in more depth:

Green Apple: The little piece is appropriately green and smells wicked of green apple, like any good candy would. But this is not a good candy; your first encounter with the tablet is disrespectful, tasting very mildly of green apple with a consistent synthetic sweetness.

Grape: The next flavor is grape, but we are actually exposed to a decent fruit flavor. Sure, it is more alike grape medicine than any other application, the tartness is good and the sweetness is superior.

Watermelon: The red fleshed melon is naturally tame, unforced and laid-back, but without real sugar and without a large size to properly convey the flavor right, we instead suffer through a synthetic moment of ineptitude.

Strawberry: Tasting very little like the vibrant perfection of the outwardly seeded fruit, this piece is unapologetically unpronounced, ignoring everything down to the hush idiosyncrasies in favor of ignorant sweetness. It was actually quite difficult to differentiate from the watermelon's equally unelaborative flavor.

Orange: Scented strongly and pleasantly, this flavor preforms rather well, at first; the fake sugars sweeten just enough, and there is a touch of tartness that really approximates the fruit. However, the sorbitol and sucralose do eventually and unfortunately burn and clog your palate with its artificiality.

Blue Raspberry: Sweetness subdued and without any tartness, this blue raspberry imitation is bland and unexciting. It barely resembles the candied fruit flavor, let alone demonstrate any depth, however the absence of any artificial aftertaste is worth noting.

Black Cherry: A naturally pronounced and complex flavor, neither of which the small size is capable of. The resulting candy is artificially harsh and entirely unappetizing despite the pleasant aroma. It may have been the last flavor tried, but it was the first that needed a chaser.

There are five calories, eighty milligrams of caffeine, some B vitamins, and taurine per piece. The quick-hitting energy was of decent strength, however it lasted only an hour and a half before I was considering another. But then I remembered the unpleasing taste, and reached for something else.

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