Boost Juic’d Mango and Tropical Blitz

June 24th, 2023

The two best features of this drink are the price (£1) and the name. Boost Juic’d. I can forgive the pointless apostrophe because of the way the name rolls off the tongue. Boostjoooooced. It is just a fancily branded sugar-laden tropical energy drink though. Ok in its way, but it is just a tropical flavoured drink.

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(2.2/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 18kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: B&M
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Relentless Zero Watermelon

June 17th, 2023

A nice mild-flavoured watermelon drink. Not too sweet or sickly, just gently fruity and easy to drink.

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(3.2/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Asda
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Nutramino Heat – Melon and Apple

June 10th, 2023

Regular readers will know that I’m not a fan of apple flavoured drinks. Even combined with melon didn’t improve it for me. It wasn’t too strong or artificial though, but be warned that this drink packs a punch in terms of caffeine. Not only does it have a high 55mg/100ml content, it’s also a slightly larger can than normal at 330ml which means there’s 181.5mg of caffeine in this can compared to the 80mg in a regular 250ml can. So be careful, assume you are drinking more than two cans when you consume this!

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(3/5)
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Caffeine: 55mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
Sold By: Home Bargains
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Dragon Energy Sugar Free

June 3rd, 2023

I’ve tagged this as a clone, but it’s sort of not. Whilst there is that expected taste that’s very similar to Krating Dung (if you remember that one), it’s a nice energy drink that’s very fruity and sweet. Considering this is a low calorie drink you’d struggle to know that as it tastes like it’s packed full of sugar.

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(3.1/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 1kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Home Bargains
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Braw Energy Red Cherry

May 27th, 2023

The second Braw flavour I’ve discovered. Like the Blue Raspberry one, the can is glossy black with a paper label stuck to it – quite smart but unusual. Flavour-wise it doesn’t kick you in the face, but the artificial cherry is quite nice and balanced just right. A pretty good drink for the budget price I paid (89p I think).

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(3.4/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 1kCal/100ml
Size: 440ml
Sold By: Home Bargains
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Virtue Clean Energy Tropical

May 20th, 2023

Apologies for the delay on this one, I picked up each of the Virtue flavours from Gloucester services, drank them, forgot to make notes, and then completely forgot what they tasted like. I actually found the tropical flavour again in Asda so have tried it out again just to bring you this review! Right then, the tropical flavour is quite sharp, refreshing, but sharp and not smooth. The drink is sweetened with stevia, and uses green coffee bean extract for its caffeine punch. It’s trying to be a responsible brand with an unspecified donation from each can being made to an unspecified “conservation of plants, animals and natural communities in the rainforest”. I’d like to have seen more elaboration and specifics on the can about that but I guess I can go and research!

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(2.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Gloucester Services
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Prime Energy Drink Lemon Lime

May 14th, 2023

First there was Prime, the expensive coconut water drink prized by every 12-year-old in the country. Now there’s Prime Energy Drink and it’s less in demand mainly because the shops won’t sell it to them 🙂 I love lemon and lime drinks, so I thought I’d start by trying the Lemon Lime Prime Energy. It’s a very strong flavour, no watering this down at all. That does make it quite sickly to drink sadly and extremely sweet despite the lack of sugar in it. It’s an ok energy drink packing plenty of caffeine, and the branding is certainly premium. At £2 per can it’s priced as a premium drink of course, but I have paid a lot more for considerably worse tasting drinks! Bingo bingo…

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(3/5)
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Caffeine: 56mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
Sold By: Asda
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Ted Lasso Pregame Energy Drink

May 13th, 2023

This was discovered in a small shop in New Orleans – not by me I should add, it was a gift! Now I’m not certain if this is officially endorsed by Ted himself – the can is a plain silver affair wrapped in a plastic film design which suggests to me that this was a small batch run using a promotional gear company (the sort of cans you get at corporate shows and events that are wrapped in some random product’s branding… look everyone our new window cleaning gizmo saves you energy so drink this energy instead). Sorry, I digress… I was expecting a regular cheap clone but was very surprised when I opened the can and the drink was bright blue. Turns out it’s blue raspberry flavour! Overall, it’s a novelty, really well presented in the can actually and taste-wise it’s not what I expected. I would say go grab a can but I couldn’t honestly tell you where to find it!

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(3.6/5)
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Caffeine: 28.1mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 45kCal/100ml
Size: 355ml
Sold By: New Orleans, USA
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Rubicon Raw Pineapple and Passion Fruit

April 29th, 2023

It’s just a really sugary tasting tropical energy drink. Loads of it, gives you quite a fruity rush I guess and it’s not bad tasting, but it really isn’t anything special.

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(2.2/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 21kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Tesco
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