I love blue dye in stuff. same with Yellow #5 and the occasional yellow+Blue that makes everything you consume or expunge from your body a horrible mutant color. Not so much with red – for if I see red anything staining anything inside me I think emergency room. That is part of the reson I was so happy this Power Trip energy drink came in that deep unnatural blue.
Blue is not a color anything a person consumes should be. No blue found anywhere in nature, unless you count Jolly Ranchers – which are truly the flavor of laundry soap. Eggplant – purple. Blueberries – Purple. Blue corn chips – Purple. Raspberries are definitely not blue – regardless of all those candies insisting it is so. That is why it works well for diet products – and can work to your advantage if you want to stand apart from natural things, like energy drinks, cleaning agents and lollipops.
Nutrition/Buzz:9
This drink definitely puts all the energy ingredients and nutrients in here in enough quantities to get you moving. 2 grams of taurine, 76mg of glucuronolactone and 72mg of Inositol for the normal ones, then all the B and C vitamins you need plus a bit more for good measure. Of course, it also has very high in carbs and sodium – almost 10% of your rda. This is because of all the high fructose corn syrup in here. The only thing I was not so happy with was the EDTA and Potassium Sorbate, chemical preservatives for longer shelf life.
As for the kick – this is some powerful stuff! 210mg of caffeine in the can +23mg of guarana, and enough HFCS to make Orville Reddenbach choke. There is also some Glucose just to boost your sugar rush a bit more off the scales. Power Trip could be used instead of paddles to keep people alive. It is some truly powerful stuff if drank quickly. For fun, chug this can back and watch the sparks fly!
Taste:9
Melted sour gummy candy in sprite? Definitely candy of some sort. This is some good stuff – even if it tastes directly out of a test tube. Hell, if I wanted natural I would have drank more organic fair trade coffee. This drink is full of syrupy sweet and sour citrus goo. Its like chugging back carbonated blue raspberry lemon lime melted sour patch kids. Seeing as the flavor of this drink is just Blue, I think that should be the new flavor of “blue” and just dumping that nasty blue raspberry flavor out of existence.
Packaging:7
This is a nice enough can, with no real mis-steps and not a whole lot going for it either. I do appreciate the ingredients listing, as well as listing all the energy ingredients. The logo is not bad, but not totally blow-me-away amazing either. One odd thing is the big “BLUE” as large as can be. If they are really trying to redefine Blue as a flavor , like Orange and Yellow #5. Otherwise the huge Blue makes no sense. I am not sure if this would stand next to a Sobe or Monster without looking cheap and crappy, but it looks fine by itself.