That's the same as two cups of coffee, and pretty standard for an energy drink (slightly more than Monster original, slightly less than 5-hour energy)
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Yeah comparing to Coke is kinda dumb
I was curious what a "cup of coffee" is, and according to healthline that would be about 8oz (~227ml) which could deliver anywhere from 70-140mg of caffeine depending on type of coffee and how you brew.
So if you drink a lot of coffee (like me) you consume a shit ton of caffeine... damn.
Why don't products containing caffeine have to show that just like fat/carbs/protein?
I kind of would like to know if I have a drink and it's going to fuck my sleep pattern for a week.
I think they do, however it is almost always smaller text somewhere not in the Nutrition Facts section.
Must be a UK thing, I'm checking pepsi cans and bottles, nothing only "it has caffeine" 😔
It's not in that same section, but I find pretty much everything but coffee and tea lists the amount near it.
So.. 180mg? That's about standard for an energy drink. 130 to 180.
Yep. I didn’t read the article but this is indeed very standard for an energy drink.
Gfuel cans are literally 300mg
Rockstar fruit punch is 240mg. Monster sells drinks that have 300mg - idk why they making this a big deal.
Used to love gfuels but they stopped selling them where I live
I hate the trend of putting more and more caffeine into energy drinks. Just give me some taurine and L-Theanine.
The weird part is the lacking regulations for showing what amount of caffeine is appropriate for a normal daily value, as they do with all the other components of foods and drinks. That should be the thing they update to apply to all energy drinks.
The excuse used is that caffeine isn't a nutrient, but that sounds like one of the reasons on why it should be included on the labels. Some labels do include it, but in a much less prominent way, as if they're trying to hide it. The regulations should make caffeine be the required most prominent thing on labels for energy drinks, coffee, ect where the caffeine is the literal point of them.
There is no recommended daily value of caffeine. If you really pressed a dietitian, they would probably say zero.
I'm conflicted on this.
The adult side of me wants to have this info on labels/menus so I can make informed choices.
The side of my that used to be in high school knows that kids will buy the highest number for bragging rights among friends.
They can already do that though? They show the mg on the label just not the recommendation
Yeah but when you have a label that says "This can has 40% of daily recommended caffeine", teens will read that more than the 3pt font we now have. 200mg is an abstract value to humans, while taking enough energy drinks for 200% daily caffeine is a dare.
Prime Hyrdration seems, to me, to be the one popular amount kids. It contains zero caffeine.
Tastes good too
Right on! Then look into redbull, monster and all those other energy drinks too.
That’s actually a little less than the Starbucks triple shots I drink every morning with 225mg
Logan Paul fucking sucks. That said, Reign has 300 mg caffeine per 16 oz and Bang has 320mg. 200 over 12oz is less than both.
The bullshit article claims that parents were thinking they were buying they kids juice.
Juice.
TBF there is a PRIME "hydration drink" too akin to Gatorade. They are both labeled the same, and I can see a parent confusing them. No matter what vessel I buy a Coke in, it's still the same beverage. Why would anyone assume differently with PRIME?
Our tax dollars at work. You'd think the FDA would have more important things to do with their time and resources than investigate a product that literally lists it's ingredients on the side.
Or a product thats nearly the same as every other energy drink
Now that's not true, it tastes worse and has less caffeine than many popular brands.