Drink Update Energy Drink with Paraxanthine - Jitter Free, Crash Free, No Overstimulation, No Withdrawal - Caffeine and Sugar Free (Peach, 12 Pack)

This product has changed my life and my brain forever. I like to keep a very clean non toxic lifestyle and I stay away from all energy drinks and eat pretty dang healthy. I am also super sensitive to caffeine so I can’t handle much coffee or I get the jitters and crash really easily. When I found this energy drink and the paraxanthine inside this changed everything for me no joke. I have the most alert, focused mind for at least four hours. Feels just like the adderall I used to take in college. I get the dopamine boost and all the motivation feelings I get from coffee but NO crash and NO jitters which blew my mind! Not to mention, it’s almost impossible to find an energy drink with clean ingredients. And the flavors are actually all amazing. My favorite is peach and berry! I’m an Update fan for life!!!

I was a heavy caffeine consumer - I was consuming upwards of 500mg of caffeine each day. My work days sometimes last from 6:30AM-9:00PM and a single can of this Update Energy at around 6:00AM gets me through the day with no crash and a steady, focused energy. It is on the expensive side for an energy drink, but when I did the math - I am saving money because I only need to drink 1 can and I'm solid the rest of the day. I was spending about $7 on caffeine sources before switching to Update Energy.I'm not crazy about the taste - but that won't stop me from drinking them after feeling the focused energy. I don't have to struggle through drinking it or anything, it's still a good tasting energy drink.I got my wife and a couple buddies drinking them too now and they've all had great results from drinking Update.

I will not be not be repurchasing for two reasons:1) It is absurdly sweet. The first sip was a shock to the system, like drinking barely diluted syrup. I ended up diluting it with water - first half this product/half water, then one third this product/two thirds water, and it was still too sweet. If you are used to chugging Coca-Cola by the liter maybe you'll be able to tolerate it. As a normie with normal taste buds, I just can't.2) One of the ingredients on the can is "natural flavors". I went on the manufacturer's website to see if there was more information on this but it didn't list "natural flavors" at all, even on the "Full Ingredient List". It makes me wonder if they are hiding something nasty in there. The FDA defines natural flavors as "flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf, or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof" but it also permits solvents or carriers to be included without a separate line on the ingredients list, so "natural flavors" could be anything. If it were peach extract or essential oil to create the peach flavor then why not say so directly? Makes me very suspect that it's something undesirable.

New Review of new product formulation (After February 2024):1. The taste. Sweeter than previous product. Given sample tastes of both product formulations to 2 people. One person preferred the old, the other the new. Person that prefer the new said that the old formulation tasted like medicine, person that prefers the old said that the new formulation smells like feet. This second person had to rinse their mouth out with water after giving them the new formulationI got to say I agree that it does indeed not smell too good, but the taste does not match the smell. The taste is ok, but I am disappointed to see that they got rid of their "over-engineered" sweetening system of the previous product formulation. It feels like they used a cheaper sweetening system and trying to make it sweeter to cater to a larger group of people instead of the niche users that probably do drink this.2. The effect. They removed several ingredients from this new product formulation: NALT, Taurine, and 5htp. I mean really...taurine, come on this is like staple in every energy drink. Overall you can tell the effect is different (a bit worse) so now have to add back the stuff they took out. Obviously adding powders to carbonated beverages is not preferable.3. The cost. They obviously did cost-saving initiatives in this new product formulation while not passing on the savings to the consumer. I will keep buying it (subscribed) because it is pre-dissolved paraxanthine using sweeteners that are not that bad (not that good either).If they have the gall to jack up the price while taking more things out to make it cheaper, maybe I switch to making my own energy drink.4. Conclusion: I expected them to reformulate because every time a company comes out with a product they tend to ruin it after X amount of time. I am glad they didn't reformulate it sooner. That being said, this new reformulation is not that bad, just miss the old one....Old review of old product formulation (Pre February 2024):1. The taste. After first receiving the product, the taste, I thought was bitter... but I try to be flexible and not too picky when trying new things, so I just kept drinking it. It can be described like this: you can taste both the sweetness and the bitterness, like peach tea w/ super small amount of honey.Others may say its a little too sweet, in fact, at times I thought it was too sweet and was kinda put off of that.This was in the beginning, but then the "taste buds" adapted. See the sweetener they use is a mixture of allulose and stevia. If you read the literature you will see that this specific combination is designed to lessen how sweet you perceive a flavor over time. So in the beginning if you think its too sweet, if you keep drinking it, you will find that this effect fades away and the sweetness becomes "balanced" to your taste buds. Note that this effect only works if you stick to only one flavor, I changed flavors around and noticed that the sweetness re-intensifies after changing the flavor. So if you are in the other camp where you think its not sweet enough, then ordering the variety pack is probably the better option.2. The effect. I feel that the effect also helps to reinforce how you perceive the taste. Its like how people don't like non-alcoholic beer because the effect of the alcohol helps to reinforce the overall beer experience. If you don't like "the effect" you experience from paraxanthine + other compounds they put in this drink, you will probably be more turned off by it. This will especially be true if you are accustomed to caffeine.If you drink coffee everyday or other caffeinated beverages, than this drink will probably not be for you. In order to "feel" the paraxanthine you need to have taken a break from caffeine completely for probably at least 2 weeks. After that, you will notice the effects of this energy drink. I will say in the beginning all you need is probably 1/3 of the can, and that will increase depending on how much you feel like you need. 1 can is like 2 cups of coffee.As for the effect itself, you will see that drinking it has the same effect as 4 hours after drinking a cup of coffee for the first time after abstaining for about a month. Its nice.If you are a habitual coffee drinker and switch to this immediately with no pause, you will either not really feel it (it will feel weak) or it will feel like a caffeine crash. So again, I recommend taking a break from caffeinated beverages before drinking this.3. The cost. 2 cans a day (~4 cups of coffee) $6. Times 30 days. ~$180. Comparable to a pack a day of cigarettes, but this is obviously way healthier and more convenient than having to smoke. People have the wrong idea that "energy drinks" are solely for energy, its more of just something to help get you through the day, kinda like cigarettes4. Conclusion: All in all there's no other product like this in the market so its hard to compare. I say it gets 5/5 stars for innovation and trying something new. I can tell they put in a lot of effort to make a quality product by the sweeteners they use (allulose + specific Reb combinations) and the inclusion of certain amino acids.Only gripe:It would be nice to know how much 5-htp is included per can because that can have some serious interactions with certain medications (SSRIs/DXM). This is not necessarily a bad ingredient to include and when added in a "microdose" amount as it probably is here, it probably definitely has some nuanced effect that contributes to the overall experience.

Okay, I LOVE this product (peach is my favorite) and find it very effective. I'm loyal to the brand and I recommend it to everyone. HOWEVER, every single order I have received from Amazon has been damaged, most frequently leading to leakage and some unusable cans. The damage is also not stationed during shipping, as the exterior box is fine, so this is not a postal issue. With the user-unfriendly Amazon customer service system, the only way for compensation or address of the issue is to return the product, which I do not usually do since by this time I need the cans on-hand (and Amazon ships this product slowly). The subscription service is also unreliable and has cancelled on me multiple times. I highly recommend the actual Update product itself, but do yourself a favor and exclusively order a subscription direct from Update. They ship fast, they have great customer service, and the product is effective.