Hansens Energy Water Grapefruit Review

There's always something interesting about picking up a new drink in a weird shaped can or bottle. In this case we have Hansens Energy Water - Grapefruit flavor. The bottle is shaped like a rocket ship, baby bottle or dumbbell and has a weird "atom" design on it that doesn't really fit in with anything about the drink. The plastic bottle shape makes it easy to hold, but becomes sort of awkward when chugging the drink. Although Hansens has gone in a ton of directions with their drinks this takes the spectrum one edge down from Energade and is basically water with flavor and energy ingredients. I guess in that vein it's similar to Trinity and Vitamin Water. Let's see if it can beat those in taste.

The grapefruit flavor of Hansens Energy Water is the same color as Squirt. It's a slightly opaque water. It also comes across as tasting somewhat like very diluted Squirt. There's a some grapefruit flavor and a Vitamin C pill flavoring - somewhat astringent sourness and a little wheaty vitamin flavor. This has almost no sweetness at all. It's not bad just boring and bland like those movies that just aren't funny and have no action. Of course that describes half of what comes out nowadays. Powerade Advance is still better and this isn't good enough to beat out Energade, Trinity or Vitamin Water either, leaving me little reason to buy this except for the intriguing bottle shape.

The ingredients are less than stellar with filtered water, HFCS, glucose, taurine, gum acacia, ester gum, ginseng, B Vitamins, sucralose, and acesulfame potassium. Although it's a positive that this is basically water with some taurine and ginseng, it didn't provide much of an energy buzz. Skip this drink unless you're into collecting bottles.