Hydrive X Triple Berry Energy Drink
Cost: $2.00 for 15.5 oz.
Active ingredients: Caffeine, taurine, green tea, ginkgo biloba
Rating: 7 out of 10
Calories: 30

Hydrive recently released their "X" line of energy drinks. Hydrive was one of the first (if not the first) companies to market themselves as using spring water in their energy drinks. We saw several flavors of the "X" line available and picked up the triple berry for our review.

The package is attractive beginning with the actual beverage providing the purple/red background (due to the transparent plastic bottle). We have liked this approach in the past because it tells us the beverage has nothing to hide...its all there for your eyes to see. Hydrive places its logo, with a shining sun, in the center of the bottle and touts the 6 powerful antioxidants provided in the beverage. The only minus we spied regarding the package was that the words "Better Energy" was placed near the top of the bottle, but the text was too subtle, we saw it almost by accident.

The flavor can be best described as berry sugar free Kool-Aid. Strange, we used this same flavor description regarding another energy drink within the last two weeks. Perhaps this is yet another trend...tapping into the tastes of yesteryear. We would've liked to have tasted more berry flavor. With a name like triple berry, we expected more. We did see ingredients for the health conscious: EGCG, ginkgo biloba, apple polyphenols, grape seed extract, selenium and zinc.

We discovered the energy bump as middle of the road. We knew we drank an energy drink by the rise in energy. However, the energy offered was moderate. We did not feel any jitters nor crash.

Web site: Hydrive X

Posted by Reviewer at February 25, 2008 01:53 PM