Now you know exactly what you're getting and what you aren't.
If I remember right, the only ingredients in Red Bull not listed by name are the artificial flavors (and maybe some colors). And those have to be drawn from GRAS don't they?
It's always seemed strange to me that we are more willing to trust plants with thousands of unknown chemicals, over a simple energy drink with like ten chemicals, all listed.
Various flora have been in a push and pull balance with fauna for hundreds of millions of years. I find it more likely that something whose very reproductive cycle depends on being eaten by animals is the healthier alternative to something engineered for a singular purpose without long-term testing on humans.
I was once a multiple-a-day energy drink consumer. The fizzy caffeine+sugar+choline+inositol mixture in a can has barely been around a few decades. Do you know what compounds the artificial flavors are? I've since switched to getting my caffeine from plants. It's been verified by a plethora of civilizations over thousands years.
If I remember right, the only ingredients in Red Bull not listed by name are the artificial flavors (and maybe some colors). And those have to be drawn from GRAS don't they?
It's always seemed strange to me that we are more willing to trust plants with thousands of unknown chemicals, over a simple energy drink with like ten chemicals, all listed.