Glaceau Tropical Citrus Vitamin Water Review

If you haven't noticed water is the next big thing. I mean life cannot survive without water and people are fed up with soda so what else are you going to drink but water. Not that I buy the whole soda is bad for you thing, especially when that soda like beverage is an energy drink, but I like water every now and then. The problem is that it is just boring! Water doesn't taste good. I need things to be full of flavor. To that end, the trend of flavored waters is a blessing. We have SoBe Waters out now (but I don't understand why they don't have taurine), Trinity Water, Hansens Water, and of course the big guy, Vitamin Water. The last Vitamin Water I tried was their Power C, which had some taurine in it to give a boost, but I thought I should taste their "Energy" Tropical Citrus flavor even though it's missing taurine. It's got the same packaging as Power C, but features a yellow wrap around label.

Tropical Citrus Vitamin Water has a thick yellow color that one could call sun gold or something. It's hard to describe yellow colors, but this looks more gold like than a lemony yellow. The flavors are pretty amorphous but definitely conform to the name of tropical citrus. We have some heavy tropical pineapple and mango flavors mixed with some lemon. I had a hard time picking out the individual flavors mostly because the predominant sense is watered down. This Vitamin Water is not too strong a flavor or very sweet but is refreshing. I'd give the Power Vitamin Water an edge over the Tropical Citrus flavor.

Vitamin Water has confusing names. I don't know if this is supposed to be Energy Vitamin Water, Tropical Citrus Vitamin Water, or "b+guarana" Vitamin Water. Clearly the main ingredients here are supposed to be guarana and Vitamin B. Other than those we have Vitamin C, crystalline fructose, vapor distilled water, gum acacia, natural caffeine, electrolytes, and beta carotene. It's a decent mix for an energy water but didn't give too much of a boost. I like the high quality crystalline fructose sweetener instead of high fructose corn syrup and how can you not like something called vapor distilled water. I don't really know what that is, but it sounds cool. This provides a good water alternative but still can't unseat my favorite thrist quenching, water like, energy boosting drink which is still Powerade Advance Berry.