Wanted to try an energy drink since I usually never drink them but didn’t want one with tons of sugar etc but also didn’t taste terrible. This would just be a once in a great while occasion.
I’m always perplexed by surveys that ask about brand loyalties and “on a scale of 1-10 how likely are you to recommend X product to your family, friends” questions.
But reading this thread, I can see there’s a lot of people that buy into these.
Maybe they’re bots or redditors
I don’t have any brand loyalty, but I do get certain brands of things because I know I don’t like the other stuff.
I’ve always wondered how they expect people to answer those. I rarely recommend specific brands to people even if I really like them, so do I answer 1? Or are they secretly asking how much I like the product and I’m supposed to answer 10 even if I’d never make the recommendation?
Sunkist orange soda or my preference, Barqs root beer. Both have a very limited amount of caffeine to impact the flavor. “Barqs has bite” because it has a tiny amount of caffeine. Caffeine has an apparently bitter taste.
The only carbonated drink without caffeine, alcohol and sugar is non alcoholic beer.
It is really great, just find one which after taste does not bother you (most have some sweet aftertaste) and drink it cold. It is great drink.
Or just plain or flavored bubbly water, which is good
Non alcoholic beer has lots of sugar https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-much-sugar-in-beer#various-types
I really enjoy the Bubly canned sparking water. Cheaper than Perrier, so many different flavours, and zero sugar or caffeine.
Plain sparkling water is like drinking alkaseltzer to me. gags just thinking about it
I’d rather drink regular water than these drinks that taste like you refilled a glass that had previously been used for a drink that actually had flavor, but enjoy it if that works for you. It’s certainly healthier than regular sodas.
Ginger Ale. 0% caffeine. There’s also sugar-free versions.
Canada Dry makes a damn good zero-sugar ginger ale
Vast majority don’t, but I found after awhile that my favorite does (Ale8). That was on me - it’s clearly marked.
Target’s got a caffeinated Seltzer I am all about. They have a few fruit flavors, then a few sods mimicking flavors.
There’s quite a few caffeine free, sugar free sodas, at least in the states. Taste is subjective tho
But within artificial sweeteners, which might be even worse for our health than sugar.
Fresca.
This was going to be my choice until I realized they wanted some caffeine.
Too bad fresca uses artificial sweeteners
I used to like the old fresca, too
The aspartame is a big part of Fresca’s flavor.
i’ll be honest idc about artificial sweeteners. We’re all gonna die anyways and we daily ingest microplastics.
Topo Chico or San Pellegrino. Sparkling mineral water in general. Gotta have those minerals, though.
Topo Chico is what Austinites call water.
Isn’t San Pellegrino Nestle?
It took me a long time to realize that la Croix and sparkling waters aren’t lacking flavor. It’s that my palette was so overwhelmed with sugar that I couldn’t taste those flavors. Once I stopped drinking soda everything else kind of popped with flavor
Yeah, I honestly don’t know how la croix does it, but that water has serious flavor, without any of that gross chemical aftertaste. I drink so much la croix…
The no caffeine sodas I like best have too much sugar to drink often. Ginger Beer and Jarritos Grapefruit soda.
Many root beers don’t have caffeine, or rather there are a few brands that introduce a small amount for taste or other reason. And there’s lots of variations in taste in those.
V8 Energy is pretty good. The caffeine amount is relatively low and the ingredients are decent.
Just don’t. There’s not too much of a benefit but adding to the grocery budget. 1-2 Monster a day habits add up quick.
For lower amounts of caffeine I was going to suggest a tea of some kind - but if it we’d like for it to carbonated then maybe Kombucha?
My post literally says once in a great while occasion, but I have a disposable income anyways
Soda water
La Croix
