Sports/Dietary Supplement (259 reviews)
Gatorade Fit 02 Mango Passion Fruit
Seriously, how many flavors does Gatorade have? Every time I think I know them all I turn around at a store and an unfamiliar face is staring up at me, just taunting. I think there were less than five varieties when I was a kid, and I was okay with that. Then they expanded their line and things got a little lighter, and I thought to myself, well that actually is much better. Now there are so many that I can’t even keep track, and the thing is that unless I drink them side by side, a lot of them taste very similar.
A little research told me that as of now the Fit line is no longer in production, but that it should be back next year, after some reformulating/repackaging. With this line they were trying to ensnare gym rats into their empire. The entire line included a pre-workout protein bar, a fruit based protein drink for while you work out and these low calorie versions of their normal drinks for post gym time. For me that is far too much to worry about. I’ll drink water when I work out, and occasionally a protein drink afterwards. Then again I’m not fanatical about the gym. I’m not trying to get ripped, just to stay in some moderate form of health.
So yeah, this line didn’t quite catch on, but it tastes okay to me. It’s low calorie, but they get there by mixing sucrose and stevia, so it doesn’t have an overly diet taste. The stevia is there a little, but it’s easily ignored. The beverage is clear, which is strange for Gatorade, but I understand they are trying to give the illusion of it being a better alternative to water while working out, and any sort of coloring in a drink would take away from that notion. The flavor is the lightest I’ve ever tasted in a Gatorade flavor. It’s hard to distinguish the mango or passion fruit, since they are normally such prominent flavors. By dialing them back it gives the beverage a general tropical flavor that hints at each, but doesn’t go overboard.
It’s too bad that this line didn’t catch on, well at least these post workout drinks. They make for a decent low calorie beverage that doesn’t taste like poison.
- Website
- http://www.gatorade.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sucrose
- Categories
- Diet, Sports/Dietary Supplement
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- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 14 hours, 54 minutes ago
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Grins Naturally Flavored Water Citrus
I know that grinning is supposed to be a good thing. It’s supposed to mean that you’re happy, but there always seem something menacing behind it to me. I think that it’s the bearing of the teeth that puts me on edge. It’s like a more aggressive smirk, as if the person doing the grinning is going to just leap out at you and rip our your jugular with those teeth they are so keen on showing off. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want that happening to me. I like my jugular just fine in its current placement.
Now Grins Naturally Flavored Water on the other hand is definitely a good thing. It’s got a bunch of vitamins in it and not too much sugar. Most importantly though is that unlike a lot of beverages in this wheelhouse it has the consistency and feel of actual water (well at least remotely). A lot of these companies call their drinks flavored water, but there is so much sugar and other junk in them that I would never in a million years associate them with H2O. While Grins does have sugar and a handful of other ingredients in it, it’s way lighter than it’s contemporaries, and that is something I can get behind. I’m so sick of the obscene amounts of sugar in drinks these days. I just want nice light drinks, and this works for me.
This flavor is citrus and it’s heavy on the lemon lime side of that grouping, but there are some other fruits at work in there as well. Overall it’s light, and it’s smooth in a way that you can drink the whole bottle without really realizing it, at which point you look at it, and wish that it was larger. It is good that it isn’t though , because let’s face it as a nation we really need to learn portion control.
- Website
- http://www.grinsbev.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Crystalline Fructose
- Categories
- Sports/Dietary Supplement, Water
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- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 2 days, 5 hours ago
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Gamma Labs G Fuel Blue Ice
You know I'm feening for some blue ice. I've got to go to the gym and daddy needs a little extra juice. I'm working on my deltoids or "delts" as I like to call them, and can't do it without a little extra "help" if you know what I mean. You know...the blue stuff? Yeah, it tastes like really sweet blue raspberry Kool Ade but there is stuff in there, man. Whatever is in there gets me going and allows me to pump more iron than I could if I was going in on just regular energy.
Diet? No, man. I carboload. I eat three plates of spaghetti a day. Fat? No, man. This is all muscle. Four hundred and twenty three pounds of muscle. Oh, you are asking if it tastes diet. No. Not really. It's surprising because of the sucralose but no, it's not really diet tasting.
I'm a self described gym rat and they know me. They know me coming in, pounding protein shakes, and eating spaghetti out of a Tupperware container to keep my delicate shape in check. I'm sorry. I have to cut this interview short. I've got some ten pound free weights in my sights that I am going to lift to a light burn and then have some ravioli that I have stashed behind the spinning bikes.
- Website
- http://www.gammalabs.net/
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sucralose
- Categories
- Drink Mix/Concentrate, Energy Drink, Sports/Dietary Supplement
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- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman 5 days, 16 hours ago
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Mix 1 Nutritional Shake Strawberry Banana
I have one simple request for the humans who populate this planet: Can we please just give up on bananas? Leave them to the chimps. We evolved from them; so let’s get away from their favorite food as well. I know people are going to think it’s a phallic thing, or that I have a problem with the texture, but those people are wrong. I’ll eat cucumbers like a hand fruit all day long, and I have no problem with mushy foods. The way I incompetently make oatmeal makes it about the same consistency as them. The sad truth that people just need to accept is that bananas just taste disgusting. I don’t get even a millisecond of enjoyment out of them. They even smell gross, like they are always in a state of decomposition. I know the potassium they provide is essential, but let’s be honest science has progressed enough that we can get that vitamin in pill form without the grozz taste.
Mix 1 has joined the bastard fruit with a delicious one as is common in our culture. Strawberries are delicious, so of course people will use them to try and disguise the grossness of the banana, it’s just too bad it never works and the precious strawberries are just wasted. This drink really has two strikes against it before I even tried it. Number one: it’s a protein drink, which generally don’t fare to well for the palate. I’ve already spent too much time on issue number two.
Upon trying this it was confirmed that I am not a fan. There is a decent strawberry flavor, and it has a nice sweetness. If it were just that then I think this would have been a pretty good protein shake, but that banana, that damn banana ruins it all. If you are a savage who has no taste buds and eat this green to yellow to brown fruit you just might enjoy this. Me, I’ll be avoiding it.
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- United States
- Sweetener
- Sugar
- Categories
- Sports/Dietary Supplement
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- Jason Draper 6 days, 12 hours ago
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Goya Hydro Health Guava Passion Fruit
Last night as I was purchasing a loaf of Italian bread and an avocado for some late night hangout snacks (yes I ate almost all of it myself, and yes it was delicious.) I saw that Goya had ventured into the “Vitamin Water” world with a new line of drinks called Hydro Health. The cashier told me that Goya has been going crazy and is making everything these days. She was dumbfounded that they now made baby food and these drinks. That was all of the examples I was given, so I can only assume that Goya has two new product lines. Perhaps two=everything in some worlds.
It seems that for the entire Hydro Health line Goya decided to forgo cane sugar or high fructose corn syrup, and kept them all zero calories. They did so by using erythritol and stevia, so that it would be zero calories and all natural. The end result turned out surprisingly well. It doesn’t taste overly diet at all. In one of those blind taste tests that were all the rage in the 80’s I bet a good majority of the participants wouldn’t even realize this was diet. It may be the most un-diet diet beverage I have ever tried.
This is just as good as any Vitamin Water or any of the other similar brands out there. It’s a little light on the flavor, but I actually prefer it that was. It’s supposed to be a water drink, so I don’t want it to taste like a mouthful of sweetener and artificial flavor. It’s light and it’s smooth. It has more of a generic tropical taste rather than a heavy guava or passion fruit, but I can look past it since it’s so refreshing.
- Website
- http://goya.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Erythritol
- Categories
- Diet, Sports/Dietary Supplement, Water
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- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 1 week, 3 days ago
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Core Power Natural High Protein Milkshake Vanilla
Okay guys, which one of you pulled this prank on me? You know I take my protein intake seriously. I mean how else am I supposed to get ripped so I can be a superhero look alike on the street for tips? One of you jerks obviously emptied out my protein drink and replaced it with a melted McDonalds milkshake. There is no way that this is not a McDonalds vanilla shake that was left out of the counter, and then put in the fridge to cool it down. It tastes identical to that. So, not only have you denied me my crucial protein, but you’ve also given me the least healthy dessert beverage of all time. Thanks, jerks. Now I’ll never get to look like Thor for $7 in tips an hour. I’m never going to be able to pay off my student loans for medical school.
- Website
- http://www.corepower.com/
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Cane Sugar
- Categories
- Milkshake, Sports/Dietary Supplement
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- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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NOS Active Fruit Punch
"A Drink For The Tired Athlete" might not be the greatest line, Jim. I know we at NOS pride ourselves on cool packaging and potent energy drinks but the term "tired" is kind of insulting, don't you think? Yes, this is our first foray into the world of hydration but this isn't our first tagline and that one isn't going to push a lot of product. Jim, come on. Look, this isn't our finest drink, I know, but we aren't the type of company to phone it in. We can't be lazy, especially since there are other players already in the market. Let's take a look at what we've got here before we move any further.
We've got an energy drink. We've already proven ourselves a big fish in that market. Let's just move on. We've got a hydration drink. Yes, it's like Gatorade and Powerade but we're mixing other stuff in so it's different. Those other guys don't have caffeine in there and we do so we are going to stand out. The fruit punch flavor is really hard, or so I hear from the flavor scientists at the lab. They did an alright job with this. Right when you take a sip you get a good fruit punch flavor. That lasts about a second. What's strange is that when it sits on your tongue for any longer it starts to get more and more stingy. I don't know where that's coming from to be honest. Neither does the lab. You think they would since they carefully added each ingredient.
You know what, Jim? The more I think about it; maybe it's the lab guys that are the issue. It's easy not to release a bad item into the marketplace. You just don't do it. These guys said it was alright and pushed it out and it's not bad but it's got a certain "really diet energy drink" taste to it. It tastes like a really diet version of two otherwise fine things. That diet branch might have just allowed me to go on a purge of my own because I'm about to trim the fat all over this place, Jim. Get out of my office! I've got some firing to do!
- Website
- http://www.drinknos.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Dextrose
- Categories
- Energy Drink, Sports/Dietary Supplement
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Gatorade Perform 02 A.M. Tropical Mango
Who knows what one does in their sleep? Perhaps you are a werewolf and without even knowing you transform into a wild beast and cause havoc throughout your town. Maybe you sleep-mallwalk with a bunch of geriatrics that wake up at 3am. Some people have night terrors of game show blunders past that cause them to be restless. Or perhaps it’s simply the time when you think you are a Viking. If any of those things are true of you, then you certainly wake up with a loss of fluids and a lack of electrolytes in your system.
The only rational solution to these problems is to grab an oversized bottle of sugary beverage and down it as soon as you wake up. I mean staying healthy is a must and you’ll be damned if nighttime you is going to ruin the rest of your day. So chug my friend, chug!
Guess what this tastes like? That’s right it has the same sodium base as every other flavor of Gatorade. Not a bad thing at all. I like when drinks have a specific taste through out their entire product line so that you can spot them in blind taste tests. It’s a taste America has known and love for decades. This version they went a little tropical with the taste. There may not be any mango listed on the ingredients, but it tastes enough like the fruit that you don’t feel cheated. It is way sweeter than anything I would typically want to drink in the morning, but I’m not an athlete, a werewolf or have grandeurs of sailing the seven seas plundering villages. I’m just a Thirsty Dude, who thinks this tastes just fine, but I wouldn’t drink it in the morning….okay it’s 9am right now, but I drank 90% of this yesterday. I’m just finishing it off to get a taste for the review.
- Website
- http://www.gatorade.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sucrose
- Categories
- Sports/Dietary Supplement
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- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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Powerade Zero Drops Orange
Stephen loved to run. His mom went to the grocery store to buy him some Powerade before he ran a marathon. She saw the Powerade Zero Drops, thought it was a drink, and bought it. When she got to the race, Stephen was getting ready to go to the starting line. She handed him the drink and he told her that it was a concentrate. She was overly apologetic because she knew that this race was important. He told her that every so often there were people that handed him water that he could add it to so it was alright. He stood at the line and the man shot the pistol and Stephen took off.
Five, ten, fifteen miles. He was doing well but getting thirsty. Where were all the people with the water? Wasn't there supposed to be people out here handing cups of water? It was getting hot, too. Stephen was slowing down and sweating. Just then, it started to rain. Hard. Downpour. As soon as Stephen hit mile eighteen it was torrential down pouring. Just then, he remembered the Powerade Drops that his mom gave him. He squirted a little in his mouth and opened his mouth and took in the rain. It mixed up nicely and tasted like a vitamin C pill or a watered down orange Vitamin Water. He's got electrolytes and is cranking through the wettest race of his career. Mile twenty he's still running and it's still raining. He's soaking from head to toe but it was hot outside so although hindering and increasingly heavy, refreshing. Every mile or so he'd squirt a little bit in his mouth and drink some water. He was happy that it wasn't gross and actually didn't taste diet at all.
Stephen saw the finish line and ran hard with whatever energy he had left. He finished in the first group of runners and was psyched with the results. He found his mom and told her that he drank rain water and mixed it with the Powerade and it was good. They both went home happy because they did well. Stephen always carried a bottle of this when he raced and thanks his mom for introducing him to it.
- Website
- http://www.powerade.com/
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sucralose
- Categories
- Diet, Drink Mix/Concentrate, Sports/Dietary Supplement
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- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman 4 weeks, 2 days ago
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NOS Active Energy Drink Raspberry Lemonade
It has recently come to my attention that through all the gallons of beverage that I have drank throughout my 34 years I have never once had a NOS energy drink. I’ve drunk far more energy drinks than I am comfortable admitting, but for some reason I have never reached for one of these. Perhaps it’s because far too much of my time during my 20’s was spent with friends who cared far too much (in my opinion at the time) about cars. We’re talking about “pimping” and sooping up cars for cars shows and the like. Because of the boredom I underwent I became disinterested in all things car related. Now that I am older I say, whatever makes you happy, do it, but back them I was a surly bastard about it.
Anyways here I stand at my inaugural tasting, and of course it’s not even for their flagship product, but a new line that they are promoting called Active. This line is basically an energy drink/sports drink hybrid. Due to the bottle and the fact that both are distributed by Coca Cola, I have it in my mind that this is NOS mixed with Powerade. I have no idea if that is true, but that is the way it looks and that is the way it tastes.
What we have here is very light lemonade with a little bit of raspberry flavor to it with a whole lot of electrolytes thrown in the mix. Oh, and a whole lot of sodium, which is normal for sports drinks. You don’t taste the energy drink aspect of this at all. The only foreign flavor I can really taste is the artificial sweetener sucralose. Overall this isn’t all that bad. It’s not a flavor that I generally go for, but I know there is definitely a lot of people out there that would.
This is a beverage made for when you work out. My question is when are you supposed to drink it though? If you drink it before you work out you get the benefit of the caffeine, taurine and the like, but the electrolytes are wasted. If you drink it after, the opposite is true. I suppose you could drink it during your work out, but I feel like you’d only get half the benefits from each side. I chose to drink it before hand, in hopes that somehow the electrolytes are set on a time release. We can only hope.
- Website
- http://www.drinknos.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sucralose
- Categories
- Energy Drink, Lemonade, Sports/Dietary Supplement
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 4 weeks, 2 days ago
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