Trek Energy Drink Nitro Red Berry Review

With my consumption of Trek Red Berry Energy Drink I have now had 11 flavors of drinks from Leading Brands. This includes drinks from Stoked, Die Hard, and Trek Energy Drink lines. I am sad to say that Trek Red Berry is the first bad energy drink I have had from Leading Brands. The good news is that Leading Brands has stopped making Trek. While the flavor of Trek Nitro Red Berry is bad, I still do like the unique packaging concept with the loop cap to easily allow you to clip the bottle to you bag and the plastic packaging which means the drink won't get banged up as you travel. I recently had a canned energy drink leak in my bag and let me tell you that is a pain to clean up. Trek's packaging solves that problem and makes it a great energy drink for the outdoor lifestyle.

As I mentioned, Trek Nitro Red Berry Energy Drink is a big downgrade from the blue flavor of Trek. The Red Berry flavor expresses itself as a strawberry shortcake flavor. It's a very simple flavor that is very familiar. The big problem with it, is that it has too much upfront sweetness. I feel like some could get past the sweetness, but the other major problem that I can't look past is the edges of artificial flavor that taste like plastic. It's like eating strawberry shortcake and plastic at the same time and that is not pleasant at all.

One thing I dislike about Trek Nitro Red Berry is that it is a calorie overload with 290 calories and 70 grams of sugar. Once you get past that you get about 3.5 to 4 hours of energy from the drink. It kicks in at a decent speed, but never puts you on a super high plateau of energy. I think that is because Trek Nitro Energy Drink is designed for the traveler and you don't want to be bouncing all over the place when in foreign lands. You might end up committing a cultural faux paus or falling into a ravine if you are not in complete control. The ingredients responsible for your controlled boost are HFCS, sucrose, citric acid, taurine, glucuronolactone, caffeine, inositol, and B Vitamins. There's still one more flavor of Trek Nitro to try, grape. So I will be interested to see if it's a good one like Blue Raspberry or a bad one like Red Berry.