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Celsius

I have heard a lot about these drinks. They don’t really bill themselves as an energy drink but from what I have heard they are one and a pretty strong one at that. So I contacted them and they were more than happy to send me some samples. I was surprised they had so many flavors though. I’ll be reviewing all the flavors here since they are all the same drink as far as key ingredients go.

Packaging: Well it comes in a 12 oz slim can. The biggest part of the can touts “Burns Calories” The flavors are listed around the top. Overall the can is quite cluttered and I think it makes a little “As seen on TV”. I understand though that they are trying to get a lot of info about the drink on the can but they might have gone overboard. I’ll give them a grade of C- 

Slogan: Best I could find is “Your Ultimate fitness partner” on their website. I think this works pretty well since this is a drink to help you burn calories. Grade B-

Taste: Ok so I have 6 flavors! There is one for everybody.

• Ginger Ale: This is a nice yellow drink with a medium carbonation level. It has a nice ginger scent to it and it is an ok ginger ale but it is sugar free so you lose something there. It does not have that ginger bite to it but it is pretty enjoyable overall. There was no bitterness or after taste. Grade C+
• Orange: This drink has a real orange scent to it and it comes out of the can with the same yellow color as the ginger ale. It has a medium carbonation. The taste is a lightly sweetened real orange. It’s not a candy orange soda at all. I really enjoyed the real juice taste to it. There was no bitterness or after taste. Grade B
• Wild Berry: This drink comes out a light red color with medium carbonation. This drink has hints of Raspberry with some grape and cranberry at the finish. It is only slightly sweet and there was a hint of bitterness. It seems to get better as you drink it though. Grade C
• Cola:  Ok so the cola flavor comes out caramel brown with light carbonation. Cola is a hard flavor to pull off. This one has the cola taste but it is best described as a flat sugar free Pepsi. I think they should have amped up the carbonation level for the cola flavor. Still if you are a Pepsi fan you might enjoy it. There was no bitterness or after taste. Grade C-
• Green Tea Raspberry Acai:  This flavor comes out a non carbonated maroon color. There is some green tea flavor up front with some mild raspberry followed by an earth Acai. The Acai really takes over and it is followed by some mild bitterness. This is one you either love or hate. Grade D+
• Green Tea peach mango. This flavor comes out a yellow color with no carbonation. It has a sweet mango and green tea scent. The Mango flavor is juicy with just a hint of peach and this blend in well with the green tea. This is easily the best flavor they offer. Did I mention it was juicy! Grade B+

Kick/Ingredients:  So it took me a week to work through all these flavors! I will tell you that each time I drank a Celsius it hit me hard. It took maybe 15 minutes but then it was on. I had a ton of energy. There were no jitters just super strong smooth energy. I was buzzin about doing this and that, talking, cranking up the radio, and just doing. Really this drink offers a surprisingly strong kick. It lasted me a solid 4 to 5 hours with no crash. So what is in this stuff?  For energy per can you have 200 mg caffeine, Taurine, Guarana, Glucuronolactone, Green tea extract, and B vitamins at the 100% rda level. Then they throw in Vitamin C, Biotin, and Chromium to speed up metabolism. This drink is low in sodium as well. It comes with 0 calories, carbs, and sugar. It is sweetened with sucralose. Grade A- for kick/ingredients

Web Presence: The website at Celsius.com is ok. It kind of feel like the can looks. But while it looks a little cheesy it does provide plenty of info on the drink and it’s ingredients. It offers a store, plenty of videos, a store locator, coupons, and more. It might not be the best looking but it makes up for it with content. They recently added a Facebook that is a big plus. Grade B

Recap: 

• Packaging  C-
• Slogan B-
• Taste  see taste section for each flavor
• Kick/Ingredients A-
• Web Presence B

Ok so everything I heard was right. This is a drink you should not overlook when looking for an awesome kick. It comes in so many flavors there is bound to be one or more you will enjoy. I can’t tell you if it will increase your metabolism or not but I can tell you with all that energy you are bound to burn over 100 calories doing stuff. You are not going to be sitting around for sure.  I can say go out and get you some of this. It may not say energy drink on the label but for sure it deserves to be called one. Try these out and let me know what you think.  

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