Benjamin hooked me up with El Sol and now hooks me up again with El Sol Sugar Free Energy Drink from Lotte. This is another drink that tries for a Spanish speaking audience with its name, the language (sans azucar) and soccer theme. The can is pretty similar to the original but trades the bright blue for a silver background. They aren't going to win any awards with this can, but it does stick with their theme. Silver, white, and baby blue seem to be the popular choices for these sugar free energy drinks and few companies branch out in a different direction. I guess you have to stay with what works.
El Sol Sugar Free does not stand up to the flavor of the sugar full version. Now I'm not saying that the original El Sol Energy Drink was great, but it is a much stronger entrant than this beverage. El Sol Sugar Free has a very strange flavor that mixes a sweet apple honey with artificial aftertaste. After that you experience some very salient vitamin bitterness with some wheat bran flavor. It's also much too sweet and leaves a strange flavor in your mouth, that I would describe as mildly unpleasant. I would not drink El Sol Sugar Free Energy Drink if other drinks were available for purchase.
I wish El Sol Sugar Free had given me more of a boost, but it failed to live up to being a true energy drink. I got only a really minor boost from the drink and it barely woke me up. I gave El Sol Sugar Free a pretty standard test drinking it about 30 minutes after I woke up to see if it would rush me back to mental alertness. It just did not cut it in the test as I still had cobwebs of drowsiness in my head 30 minutes later. You can expect 2 hours of modest energy from the drink, but nothing more than that. The beverage is sugar free with only 2 calories. The basic ingredient list reveals why the boost was so weak with only taurine, citric acid, guarana, Vitamin C, inositol, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, and B Vitamins.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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