Welcome to summer 2021 (well, at the time of writing it’s only spring!), and welcome to another Red Bull summer edition. This year they’ve given us “Cactus Fruit”. I’d no idea what to expect from this flavour at all, but it turns out that it’s just a refreshing tropical drink really. It’s smooth and sweet, but nowhere near as sickly as other tropical drinks usually are.
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Cactus Fruit, UK |
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Calories: | 45kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Premier Stores UK | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
Not bad, but could be better. Orange energy drinks have a habit of being quite sickly, especially when supplied as a large portion like this one. It is sickly, and could be improved by only being in a 250ml can instead, but there are much worse drinks out there! I’m not keen on their naming convention for the flavours either – Overly Orange seems a little childish compared to the more aggressive Warrior branding. I think a simple ‘Orange’ would have sufficed instead of letting the intern loose on the branding.
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Orange, UK |
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Calories: | 23kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 500ml | ||
Sold By: | Poundstretcher | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
This is the summer edition for 2020, and they’ve chosen what should be a refreshing watermelon flavour. Sadly, they’ve taken that watermelon flavour and made it quite strong, amped up with a very syrupy sweetness which makes this drink quite sickly. It starts off nice, but becomes a bit of a chore to get all the way through – if they’d made it a little weaker then it would have tasted several times better.
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Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: UK, Watermelon |
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Calories: | 45kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 250ml | ||
Sold By: | Premier Stores UK | ||
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It’s a refreshing and still sports drink of an unknown flavour! Some sort of fruit but I genuinely couldn’t tell you what it is. It might be a very watered down version of the Monster Zero (blue label) drink, but it really is tricky to identify it. It’s nice anyway, so give it a go. Being non-carbonated, it’s very easy to drink.
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Caffeine: | 30.5mg/100ml |
Tags: Bottle, Low Calorie, Still, UK |
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Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 650ml | ||
Sold By: | Filco Supermarkets | ||
Web Site: | Click here |
New Lucozade time! I love lemon and lime drinks… I know Lucozade doesn’t have much caffeine in, so you won’t get a kick from it in that department, but it is very refreshing and easy to drink. A nice summery tipple.
Now here’s the tropical NOCCO – but don’t get this one, get the pineapple one I reviewed last week. This one is a bit sharp and synthetic tasting, quite difficult to get through the whole can really.
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Caffeine: | 55mg/100ml |
Tags: BCAA, Large Can, Low Calorie, Tropical, UK |
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Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 330ml | ||
Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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Tropical! I had expected to taste coconut in this one (I don’t know why, I know that there’s giant pineapples all over the can) but it is definitely just a mild and sweet pineapple drink. High in caffeine, it’ll keep you going all day – and being pineapple it’s certainly different to most other drinks you’ll find.
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Caffeine: | 55mg/100ml |
Tags: BCAA, Large Can, Low Calorie, Pineapple, UK |
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Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 330ml | ||
Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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I first discovered NOCCO at a 7Eleven whilst on holiday in Sweden. Being Sweden, it was a very expensive purchase. Then, a few days later I found myself in Norway and discovered NOCCO was even more expensive there! Anyway… I saw NOCCO being sold in Morrisons in the UK and it was considerably cheaper. This red berries flavour was quite bitter, but not as unpleasant as I had expected. After a few sips I had accustomed myself to the bitterness and started to enjoy it. An interesting line of drinks if you can find them. Oh yes, and they have a lot of caffeine in them.
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Caffeine: | 55mg/100ml |
Tags: BCAA, Berry, Large Can, Low Calorie, UK |
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Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 330ml | ||
Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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It’s ok I suppose! Basically, it’s a cherry Lucozade rip-off. To be fair, it’s not far off in flavour, it’s just missing that typical Lucozadeness (??) that I’d describe as the almost trademark way it feels when it fizzes in your mouth. It think Lucozade must have patented a special bubble shape or something for that because no other fizzy drink feels the same. Back to Ka Reload… yeah, it’s drinkable but not very refreshing or caffeinated.
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Caffeine: | 0.1mg/100ml |
Tags: Black Cherry, Bottle, UK |
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Calories: | 38kCal/100ml | ||
Size: | 500ml | ||
Sold By: | Home Bargains | ||
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