Energy drinks are non-alcoholic beverages that contain caffeine and other ingredients, such as B vitamins, taurine, guarana, and ginseng. Basically, Monster Energy drinks are a mix of sugar, caffeine, and vitamin supplements that provide an energy boost. As with ginseng, the amount of L-carnitine in energy drinks isn't anywhere near high enough to be a cause for concern, but it's also not enough to catalyze fat burning effects (if any). Some energy drinks are designed especially for elite athletes, but most are produced and marketed to the general community.
It's popular with energy drink manufacturers because it alleviates many of the negative side effects of caffeine consumption. These are just a few of the ingredients that energy drink manufacturers use to meet growing consumer demands for healthier, tastier, and more practical ways to feed their bodies. There have been several reported cases of people dying after drinking energy drinks and exercising a lot, but there is no evidence that those drinks were the primary cause. The B vitamins most commonly added to energy drinks are vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), and vitamin B12 (cobalamin).
However, as I noted in a comment on my recent article on energy drinks, these drinks contain much more than caffeine and water. The active ingredients in the energy drink “Monster” are caffeine, taurine, ginseng, guarana and B vitamins. It has long been used as a stimulant, and adding it even in small amounts to energy drinks is likely to provide a more intense effect than caffeine alone. I use these two examples because they cover most of the common ingredients found in energy drinks and injections.
These are some of the promising plant-based ingredients that creators are using to bring the next generation of energy drinks to today's health-conscious consumers. At sufficiently high doses, it seems to have a positive effect on nervous system modulation, but the small amount present in energy drinks is likely to be useless. With the wave of news about research on Monster Energy Drink energy drinks from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a lot of follow-up news has emerged about the amount of caffeine in energy drinks. It's debatable whether the amount contained in energy drinks (or, in this case, 5-hour energy injections, not Monster drinks) can produce this effect.
So, I thought it would be interesting to analyze the ingredient labels of typical energy drinks and see what else we eat with each drink.
