And the second Monster flavour of the year (2021)… this time it’s another tropical one but in sugar-free form. Ultra Fiesta is a mango flavoured beverage in a large 500ml can. It’s mild and refreshing, and easy to drink due to the lack of sugar making it less sickly than full fat versions.
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Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Low Calorie, Mango, UK |
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Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 500ml | ||
Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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I guess it’s like the Ford of sports drinks world??? Geddit? No? Oh well. It’s fake tropical Lucozade. Not much in the way of caffeine but also not as packed full of sugar.
This is an odd one to describe. The ingredients lists fruit juices from concentrate: grape, passion fruit, lemon and lime. It also lists ‘flavourings’… but, and critically, there is specifically no mango mentioned anywhere specifically. In a green mango flavoured drink. I’d never heard of a green mango before so I had to Google it, and the first result was a Wikipedia entry about a type of Hummingbird of that name. I’m assuming the drink doesn’t contain hummingbird as that might go against its vegan credentials. Anyway, regardless of what it’s called and what it does or doesn’t contain, it’s a tropical flavoured energy drink, and nothing fancier or more complicated than that.
Amazing can design! But it’s just a tropical flavoured energy drink so popular in the summer so everyone is trying to get a share of that market. It’s sweet and has the synthetic Monster taste you’ll recognise.
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Mango, UK |
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Calories: | 49kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 500ml | ||
Sold By: | Roadchef | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
At least the own-brand me-too drink makers are starting to get it right. This one was at least in the ‘ok’ group of drinks. It wasn’t too sweet or sour, but had just the right amount of tang to it.
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Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Mango, Orange, UK |
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Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Asda | ||
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I drank this one with memories of the other Aspire drinks close to hand… and as I suspected I didn’t enjoy it. It’s really bitter and watery, with no real fruity flavouring or sweetness to it at all. It tastes how you’d expect something really healthy to taste! There’s no tropical or lemon hints there at all, sorry…
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Green Tea, Lemon, Low Calorie, Mango, UK |
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Calories: | 0.8kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Poundland | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
Sharp and sweet, very fruity and difficult to tell that it’s a sugar-free drink. They’ve made the can a bit funky with multi-coloured fire patterns all over it and called it limited edition.
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Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Guava, Low Calorie, Mango, UK |
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Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Lifestyle Express | ||
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It’s just a shot of caffeinated fruit juice. I don’t much like fruit juice, so I found this horrific, but if you are after a caffeine perk without the usual energy drink flavour then this is for you. I’d be surprised if you could tell the difference between this drink and a regular juice drink.
No no no no no. It doesn’t work! It tastes like a nasty fruit tea. You get a cheap tasting tropical fruit flavour mixed with a brewed bitterness which I assume is from the cardamom. I had been hoping for a nice perfumed fragrance drink along the lines of what you get when you munch on the seeds from a cardamom pod, but I was disappointed.
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Caffeine: | 15mg/100ml |
Tags: Cardamom, Low Calorie, Mango, UK |
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Calories: | 5kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Asda | ||
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