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Cintron: Original Review
Price: 0.70(no not a typo =D) Overall Rating: 5 of 10 Summary: As in my last review, Cintron isn’t one of the top most well known energy drinks out there, I recently had more brought to me by a friend from Massachusetts. This time, I had a few originals brought, which hadn’t been part of the stash last time. Taste: First sip, whoa that’s strong citrus. Second sip, wow thats REALLY strong citrus. Third sip, ew this is fucking medicine. Fourth sip, did someone puke in this? I honestly for the FIRST time in my life could not finish an energy drink. This taste was just repulsive. Taste Grade: 2 Power: I’m going to have to assume the kick was the same as the other flavors of cintron. The ingredients are the same so it makes sense, right? Power Grade: 8 Pricing: I’m leaving this blank because even though I managed to get it for 70 cents which was pretty epic, I saw $2 too. So…price grade is n/a. Final Verdict: Stay the fuck away from Cintron Original. It literally gets worse with each sip. Overall Rating: 5 of 10 Where to find: Who cares? Stay the fuck away from that shit.
Size: 16oz
Active Ingredients- Taurine, Caffeine, Glucuronolactone, Pantothenic Acid, B6, B12
Calories- 220
Energy Blend(total energy ingredients)- n/a
Pricing Grade: N/A
Energy Drinks I Have Tried
My first energy drink was a Full Throttle which I got for free when it was first coming out and they were promoting it. I had 3 in about one hour since nobody with me wanted one and had no idea what it was going to do to me, needless to say I’ve learned since then.
From what I can recall here are all of the energy drinks I’ve had:
- Monster
- Monster Lo-Carb
- Monster Import
- Monster MIXXED
- Monster Java
- AMP
- Amp with Green Tea
- Amp with Black Tea
- Red Bull
- Red Bull Shot
- Red Bull Sugar Free Shot
- Rockstar
- Rockstar Sugar Free
- Monster Hitman Shot
- Syzmo
- Cintron
- Amp Lightning
- Vault (yes I’d count it)
- Mountain Dew Voltage
- 5 Hour Energy
- 5 Hour Energy Extra Strength
- Amp Lightning
- Rockstar Lemonade
- Venom Black Mamba
- Venom Mohave Rattler
- Monster Nitrous Killer B
- Monster Nitrous Super Dry
- AMP Overdrive
- NOS Grape
- NOS Orange
- Full Throttle
- Cintron: Cranberry Splash
I can’t really remember the rest. AMP Energy Gum was quite an experience.
Cintron: Cranberry Splash Review
Price: 0.70(again, not a typo =D) Overall Rating: 8 of 10 Summary: Cintron isn’t exactly a well known energy drink, and unfortunatley it’s weird bottle design makes it look like some sort of bad tasting cranberry flavored seltzer, but it’s delicious. When I first opened the can it was so pressurized from being in my bag all day that the can literally shrank when I opened it. The red dye was so strong it made my mouth red. Taste: The taste was excellent. It barely even tasted cranberryish and more just flat out berry which was delicious. It might just be my taste bud’s because my friend snuck a sip and it repulsed him beyond belief. I’m going to say he’s just crazy though and give it the thumbs up. Taste Grade: 9 Power: Cintron’s kick wasn’t anything to write home about, but it was still enough to power me through spanish class. Ahhh godforsaken spanish class…thanks Cintron, I salute you. I tried to get it down fast so that it would hit me as a big buzz. Total buzz time was an estimated 80 minutes. Power Grade: 8 Pricing: I’m leaving this blank because even though I managed to get it for 70 cents which was pretty epic, I saw $2 too. So…price grade is n/a. Final Verdict: Although it’s availability is pretty shabby at best, Cintron is great. It didn’t fill me up even though it had that sorta fizzy, oh-god-this-is-gonna-bloat-me feel to it. Overall Rating: 8 of 10 Where to find: I honestly don’t know, I’ve seen it once in my life.
Size: 16oz
Active Ingredients- Taurine, Caffeine, Glucuronolactone, Pantothenic Acid, B6, B12
Calories- 220
Energy Blend(total energy ingredients)- n/a
Pricing Grade: N/A
What is Taurine?
A study into that substance that there seems to be a ton of in all drinks.
On average you would consume about 200mg of Taurine with no energy drinks in your diet at all. Here’s just a head’s up, although I report Taurine stats and almost every energy drink boasts their taurine quantity…taurine hasn’t been exactly 100% proven to be a source of energy.
Mainly it was determined that taurine was by the body for skeletal muscle functions. A few studies done by some smart Europeans found no adverse affects in taking in high amounts of taurine. About 3,000mg would just be secreted by the kidneys though according to the research I did, but that was just checking around.
Taurine also has neurological effects, although it’s difficult to determine the long-term effects of it’s use, right now we can assume it’s reasonably safe. Taurine helps mental alertness to a certain degree.
Many bodybuilders use taurine coupled with creatine for muscles. A few studies conducted in London suggested that high intakes of Taurine can actually counteract the effects of heavy drinking due to certain effects on the liver. Yes, go ahead and have that Redbull and Vodka, the Red Bull will take care of the effects.
Rather than being a stimulant like caffeine, taurine is an amino acid.
So here’s the quick breakdown:
- Amino acid
- Safe for large intake
- More than about 3,000mg will be secreted by the kidneys
- Has neurological benefits
- Helps skeletal muscle functioning
- Has not been proven to provide direct energy to the body
- Average intake of 200mg
5 Hour Energy Shot: Extra Strength Review
Price: $2.95 Overall Rating: 5 of 10 Taste Grade: 1 Power: The power of 5 hour energy is decent for non-energy drink enthusiasts. It definitely won’t get anyone buzzing, but that’s not really the purpose so you can’t blame them for that. I don’t feel any kick from 5 hour’s. This was even extra strength. I was a little more alert for an hour, maybe an hour and a half if I’m being generous. It’s not that great, but I have definite tolerance built up to these drinks for the most part, so if it lacks caffeine, then it won’t even affect me for the most part. I’ll be generous because it might get people without tolerance going. Power Grade: 5 Pricing: The pricing is around the average for energy shots. Although energy shot prices are overall ridiculous for the most part, it’s just the market I guess. We’ll give it a nice 7, at this point they need all the help they can get, this is turning out to be a harsh review. Final Verdict: If you don’t usually reach for an energy drink in your day for a pickup, they 5 hour energy could be just the right thing for you. If your local convenience store guy knows your name and you’re as much of a regular there as Norm was on Cheers (yeah, I went there) then this probablyyyyyy isn’t for you. Overall Rating: 5 of 10 Where to find: Most places energy drinks are sold, at the counter.
Size: 2oz
Active Ingredients- Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folic Avid, Vitamin B12, Taurine, Glucurolactone, Malic Avid, N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine, L-Phenylalanine, Caffeine, Citicoline
Calories- 4
Energy Blend(total energy ingredients)- 2000mg
Summary: 5 Hour Energy was at one point quickly taking the energy shot business by storm. It’s blatantly un-catchy commercials somehow managed to spark interest within consumers, to the point where millions of these things were being consumed weekly? So how did it fare with me? For all of the hype and how big this company has gotten, poorly.
Taste: If you’ve ever had a 5 hour energy of any kind before in your life, you need not even read this. Terrible to say the least. I doubt anyone, even the dude who invented 5 Hour Energy himself could bear this taste as an actually decent drink, thank god it’s a two second drink. I literally started coughing this time from drinking it.
Pricing Grade: 7
My Average Daily Intake
My Average Energy Drink Stats Per Day:
Drinks: 3-4
Calories from Energy Drinks- About 700
Caffeine- about 450mg
Taurine- about 3500mg (on average people take in 400mg a day just to put that into perspective)
Guarana- No idea.
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Energy Drinks I NEED to Try
If you have and want to send me one of these, get at me.
Note: These aren’t the only energy drinks I’ve never had and want to try, these are just some of the more interesting ones.
Hunid Racks
Hustler
Irn-Bru- Allegedly the first energy drink
Crunk
Jolt
Monster Java Nut Up
Beaver Ruzz
Stoked Energy
Pitbull
Hooah!
Lightning Bolt
Blast
Wired X505
Fixx Extreme Ultra Shot
Reload
V
Sparks
Quick Energy
Jolt Endurance Shots
