Natural Caffeine Variety Optimum Performance Reviews Summary

Flavor

Pros:

• "Gives me energy without all the added chemicals. Has an amazing flavor!"
• "I love the lemon-lime flavor."
• "These taste great and make me feel great."
• "LOVE LOVE LOVE this flavor of fitaids (strawberry lemonade)."
• "The flavor blew me away. It tastes like a sour Jolly Rancher (which is delicious)."
• "The blackberry and raspberry flavors are awesome."
• "I love the flavor! Amazing taste and so many great nutrients."

Cons:

• "It was absolutely terrible; Didn't taste anything like watermelon nor mint."
• "Someone else said the flavor is chalky, and I'd have to agree."
• "The taste is unbelievably awful. I gallantly got thru the first can and noticed no change to my level of focus."
• "The taste of this is awful!!! Threw away the whole case."
• "Taste like I chewed a multivitamin. Terrible taste! And made me want to throw up."
• "It’s disgusting. It has a bitter, almost stale aftertaste that is just bad."
• "These fitaid in the mango taste awful. So bitter."

Texture & Aftertaste

Pros:

• "It is sweet at first and then it gets a little sour (like sour gummy worms)."
• "Great taste that is refreshing and without much sugar."
• "Amazing taste, with no weird after taste like some others I've tried."

Cons:

• "Feels like you are drinking a cheap, generic or supermarket brand near beer that someone added some chalk to it, you can feel the grittiness."
• "They have a grainy texture to the liquid. And the flavoring doesn’t overshadow the ingredients tastes."
• "It tastes a lot like liquid candy, with a sharp bite aftertaste."
• "Every sip got worse and worse."
• "The taste left an after taste that was also just not something I liked."
• "The sugar substitute mix is so horrible, I would rather drink 80's TAB."
• "These energy drinks have a great rating on the yuka app, for not to many harmful additives and such. However, some flavors have a chalky after taste."

Effectiveness

Pros:

• "Great ingredients, long-lasting (all-day) focus and energy, and a healthier option for caffeine."
• "Focus Aid does a great job bringing you back from mental and physical sluggishness without making you jittery."
• "I drink these for my night shift job around midnight and it keeps me going to 705am!"
• "This drink is absolutely delicious! Drink one after every workout and it makes the recovery faster! The flavor is light and fresh!"
• "This energy drink delivers on its claim to help alertness and focus, and it does so quickly."
• "After drinking one, I actually can focus without struggling!"
• "These make me feel much better post-workout (WOD). They seem to aid in recovery and my overall physical disposition following a WOD."

Cons:

• "Although this does provide a boost from the caffeine, can't really say this helps with focus."
• "I kind of crashed right at the end of my shift making the drive home a slog."
• "I crashed after 1 can definitely not what I was looking for it drained me instead."
• "The active ingredient is missing out of these."
• "The biggest problem is this energy drink does nothing for my energy, I’m still so tired."
• "It’s okay but makes me anxious like I drank caffeine."
• "Not the best flavor, but nothing unbearable. Bought these for one class I couldn't focus in and...I still couldn't focus."

Quality & Ingredients

Pros:

• "The b vitamins seem to be of good quality as they included methylcobalamin as opposed to the cheap stuff."
• "Have tried other energy drinks and got jitters and felt sucky after the initial jolt. This energy is clean and no sucralose or aspartame."
• "He loves the high-quality ingredients that are good, not only for the extra focus, but provide some general health benefits."
• "It's loaded with quality ingredients, and sweetened with Monk fruit and Stevia."
• "They're all natural, pumped with vitamins and herbs!"
• "Vitamins, BCAAs, and all kinds of good stuff."
• "This brand really did their research on clean energy, no artificial sugars."

Cons:

• "The other issue is it tastes artificial, and tastes like they’re marketing the healthiness of it, because no way is this as natural as they say."
• "It's almost like they made a drink that's full of vitamins and doesn't taste good, so they tried to flavor it to make it more tolerable."
• "The caffeine and vitamins felt good. But I just couldn't get over how disgusting they are."
• "They taste like old, stale juice and vitamin B."
• "It’s like drinking a multivitamin."
• "The B complex vitamins do not mix well with the flavors of the rest of the drink."
• "Might be a healthier drink, but you have to be able to drink said drink to get the benefits."

Packaging & Shipping

Pros:

• "Never had an issue with a package being damaged at all."
• "Received one complete order of 12 wrapped."
• "Very securely packaged for shipping as well."

Cons:

• "This last order was not, though. The case got totally manhandled and arrived with open cans in a box that was almost mush."
• "Cans are dented pretty bad, some I can even stand for display."
• "I threw the one in the photo away because there was a puddle of liquid on the top and when I wiped it off the tissues were black and dirty."
• "Our fitaid came with a lizard this time."
• "Only 11 out of 24 drinks arrived in the box and all 11 were dented."
• "This shipment arrived dented and one can had burst."
• "All the cans were soaked with an exploded can’s remnants."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "They are in line price wise with other similar products."
• "The price isn't bad, considering how expensive most energy drinks are."
• "At $27 for a 12 pack, it's $2.25 a can which is not bad."

Cons:

• "Very disappointing for $60."
• "But one thing to note is the price went from 46 to 58 dollars within a week of getting them!"
• "At MSRP, they just aren't affordable at all. I have to quit drinking them because I can't afford them."
• "We really like this product, but with a 12 pack now costing $54 we can no longer afford it."
• "$27 is a bit on the higher end for 12 cans unless you're a rich person who doesn't care about prices."
• "However.... the cost is a bit too high for me to be willing to buy this regularly."
• "I'd like to see the cost reduced as drinking these regularly after work outs or intense activity is a bit pricey."