Coming to you from the makers of both one of the most evil makers of food products (nestle) and the giant of the soft drink industry (coca cola) comes this sparkling energy drink that is supposed to help you actually lose weight while drinking. The drink is supposed to cause a “negative calorie effect”. Meaning consuming 3 cans a day of this stuff burns 100 calories, while it only contains 5 a can. Now does it really burn more than not? who cares… any one who is using these as a pathway to health has some serious thinking to do.
The same people that count these as healthy weight loss supplements also think that buying a WII for their sports games will be as good as joining a gym. For tweak’s sake just drink some green tea with splenda in it then! Cheaper – maybe healthier, plus not supporting the people who dreamed up this awful and socially irresponsible drink. Somehow, making promises of sex or superstrength in energy drinks are OK – no one really believes you will have the power of hulk hogan or Chuck Norris by drinking their products – but this touts how overweight people can grow thinner just by drinking over 3 cans a day!
Down to the nitty gritty:
Buzz/health : 6 or 9 if drinking recommended amount
OK. not fantastic. It has about 100mg of caffeine added, so it is not a terribly strong drink – unless you are going to do the recommended 3-5 cans a day, which in that case you are flying high! Having only drank 2, I felt some kick – but not the jittery superhero I always hope for.
Taste: 7
Full of green tea extract – then sweetened by nutrasweet. As green tea drinks go – this one is not too bad. Still a sour aftertaste, but not an unpleasant flavor. I tried the peach and the berry, both very very heavy on the tea taste, but not terrible sugary. Definitely not a natural sweet, but that would be wanting to much.
Packaging: :7
not much to write about here. Bunch of techno tea leaves – about what you would expect from these producers. You could see some poor designers having to sell their illustrator file concepts to the head cheeses of both companies – and the constant tweaks that must have happened to both package and product before this ever hit the shelves. my guess is this in not one for the designers portfolio books