More or less the same as the full-fat version – I couldn’t even taste the usual chewy sweeteners. You might as well go for the sugar free version and spend the remaining calories on a chocolate bar as far as I’m concerned because the taste was almost identical.
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Citrus, Low Calorie, UK |
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Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Tesco | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
Does anyone else remember those lemon and orange jelly candy slices you used to get around Christmas time? They were quite thin, about an inch wide and coated in sugar? Well, that’s what this shot tastes like. It’s a pretty decent tasting drink – not sour or bitter, but sweet and citrusy (if that’s a word).
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Caffeine: | 90mg/100ml |
Tags: Citrus, Low Calorie, Shots, UK |
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Calories: | 5kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 60ml | ||
Sold By: | Home Bargains | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
Tart and sickly. I suppose it’s okay for a budget supermarket own-brand, but it brings nothing original to the energy drinks market and isn’t particularly to my taste either.
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Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Berry, Low Calorie, UK |
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Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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This tastes like it must be good for you, and by that I mean it tastes bloody awful. The can claims it contains Elderberry, green tea, grape seed, artichoke, pomegranate and cranberry – I can only tell you that the combination is not good. Maybe you do have to be a woman to drink it, perhaps it tastes better then? But, in my opinion, it tastes like someone has filtered compost and canned the residue. I know it has a decent caffeine hit, but couldn’t tell you the exact amount because there’s no information on the can. That means that it doesn’t contain enough to warrant the warning – but the caffeine is hidden amongst the guarana and green tea extracts.
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Caffeine: | 0.01mg/100ml |
Tags: Guarana, Low Calorie, UK, Women |
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Calories: | 5.3kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Holland and Barrett | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
I finally found Boost Sugar Free, but it’s not in a can. A 500ml bottle is all I could get hold of, and I really prefer to review 250ml can editions if at all possible. That said, it’s a nice yet unoriginal clone. Best chilled, of course, because being in a bottle it warmed up quite a bit by the time I’d got to the second half.
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Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Bottle, Clone, Low Calorie, UK |
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Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 500ml | ||
Sold By: | B&M | ||
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Really good! Nice and fruity, cheap, and low calorie too. I highly recommend this drink for something different to the usual array of supermarket own brands. It’s not too fizzy, not too sweet, not too bitter – just right. Go get a can right now…
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Mixed Fruit, UK |
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Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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Asda are really trying hard with their energy drinks… but not quite hitting the spot. They’re going for variety of range over quality and it shows. Fancy a berry flavoured drink? They have one! Tropical? yup! Diet? Most of them! This is a berry drink, and it is sugar free (at least, I haven’t found a non-diet version yet). It’s very strong in flavour – like it is almost 50% cordial! Overall though it’s only average so it gets average scores.
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Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, UK |
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Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Asda | ||
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This is just the sugar-free version of 28 Black. It tastes more or less the same so it gets the same scores! It also contains the recently hyped Stevia (read about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia) and is the first energy drink I’ve seen to contain this sugar substitute. I expect to see a lot more Stevia based drinks in the near future.
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Acai, Guarana, Low Calorie, Spain |
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Calories: | 1.9kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Madrid, Spain | ||
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Usually you can taste the sweeteners in a low calorie energy drink especially when compared to its full fat cousin. This time, they’ve done an excellent job in making a zero sugar version taste just like the original. Other than that, I’ll refer you to the review of the original Black Energy because the drink is pretty much identical, including the Mike Tyson endorsement.
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Low Calorie, UK |
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Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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