PRODUCT: Gatorade G-Series 01 - Prime "Fruit Punch" flavor
Price: $1.99
Ingredients:
Water, isomaltulose, sucrose, dextrose, maltodextrin, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, xanthan gum, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, niacinamide (vitamin b3), red 40, calcium pantothenate (vitamin b5), pridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b6)
My Experience:
The Prime had a decent flavor, tasted like fruit punch. Did I get any extra energy? None that I noticed. The unconventional pouch seems like a marketing ploy that because you should drink it one sitting, it will work like a real supplement. However, its works as well as fruit punch.
Contents:
So tell me what you see. I see a s***load of sugar. In fact, the second, third, and fourth ingredients are forms of sugar. The last 7 ingredients (not counting the food coloring) are used for replenishing electrolytes, as you can see you really don't need much. Salts, potassium and calcium are used for that. Electrolytes are exhausted during exercise. They aren't so important pre-workout. A pre-workout protein shake with milk and a bananna would be beyond sufficient (calcium, protein, carbs, potassium). Protein and carbs are the most important pre-workout to fuel the work out. However, sugar, is not exactly what I mean by carbs. A peanut butter and jelly sandwhich on wheat bread is more like it. You have your slow carbs, protein and a small amount of fast carbs. Sugar, results in sugar crashes, the last thing you want in a workout. Well thankfully Gatorade provides 3 parts of the G-Series, including part 2 - Performance - for during your workout (aka: more sugar to avoid a sugar crash).
Conclusion:
B-vitamins, like b-12 are excellent for energy. Vitamin b-3,5,6&12 are all useful for electrolyte replenishing due to the contents (calcium, sodium aka salts, potassium). There are 6 B-Vitamins, another energy blend featuring Milk Thistle Extract, Taurine, Guarana, L-Carnitine and ZERO CARBS in the Zero Carb/Zero Sugar Rockstar! I'd drink that pre-workout before wasting more money on this crap. Would I use it again? Not unless I felt like having a little fruit punch.
Flavor: 5 out of 5
Effectiveness: 2 out of 5
Nutrition: 1 out of 5
OVERALL RATING: 2 out of 5 (FAIL)
Alternatives:
What I reccomend, and will do another review on, is Jack3d - a pre-workout igniter, and Muscletech's NOP-47 for your pre-workout fuel, which is a Protein shake featuring Creatine, L-Arginine, BCAA's and more.
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