Once
again, a special thanks to Caffeine King for the use of his image.
CAFFEINE
CONTENT
224
mg
EASE
IN ACQUISITION—7
Not
ubiquitous, but not terribly difficult to find either. Frequenting some of the more localized
chains should be fruitful.
APPEARANCE/PRESENTATION—8
Again—functionally
this has all its ducks in a row, and aesthetically I have no complaints. What more can I say?
TASTE—7
This
might not be the best-tasting hydration beverage I’ve ever had, but considering
it’s based on a flavor I like to call “crap fruit punch,” I’d say it does a
pretty good job. There’s no
nauseating sweetness, no bubble-gum aftertaste, no noxious carbonation—just a
cherry-based fruit blend that could benefit from a bit more flavor
enhancement. All in all,
refreshing and easy to get down—which in most circumstances is about what you
look for when you reach for a sports drink.
KICK
(INTENSITY)—9
On
top of the refreshment virtue, NOS Active boasts a serious boost—and in my book
excels as a pre-workout drink.
Regardless of how tired I was when I got up (I shoot for 6:00 A.M. and
typically make it), I always got a formidable boost out of these beverages that
1) made it really hard to not be doing something as I ate my breakfast, 2) had
me leaping up Jacob’s Ladder for my 30 minutes and sustained me through my
weightlifting, and 3) did an excellent job of curtailing my usual post-workout
fatigue. This is definitely going
to be a go-to beverage with future workouts in mind.
KICK
(DURATION)—9
Really,
you only need this to last for an hour, hour and a half or so—long enough to
get you to and through the gym.
However, I received a blessed four hours of intense but jitter-free
energy—so all things considered this supplies a surplus of performance. Nothing wrong with that.
THE
DRINK OVERALL—8.33
NOS
Active—Fruit Punch works so well that I’d integrate it into my regular energy
product-consuming routine for that alone, but fortunately it tastes good enough
that doing so isn’t by any means torture—in fact, the more I think about it the
more it grows on me. Give it a
shot and leave your thoughts.
WEBSITE:
drinknos.com
KEYWORDS:
NOS Active Fruit Punch energy drink review, low calorie, hydration beverage
i still have to try it but all reviews say this drink is nice (:
ReplyDeleteI bought this flavor today and found that it was expired (since Jan. 2014). The others flavor(s) of NOS Active was expired too. It seems to me that this is a slow mover at the Homeland Stores in my area. I'm trying this later.
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