I Compared Sugarless Grape Flavored Energy Drink Single Serve Mixes With No Aspartame

I had a question about what my favorite energy drinks were that were sugarless, but also did not have aspartame. I like to see aspartame coming out of products. It is a big development that a lot of brands are doing apparently. In this post I compare grape flavor single serve mix packets.
So I’m making this video to show you some of my favorite energy drinks that don’t have aspartame, but first we’re going to set up the standard.

Procedure

For every one of these tests, I’m going to rinse up the bottle first. This rinse will also warm it up. I’ll have these beverage mixes warm. The winter coming here. It’s always nice to have a flavorful warm beverage in your hand. Use these single serve energy drinks for a great pick me up in the morning.
Each one will be tasted to test the flavor, color, mixing speed, contents and if it is free of aspartame.

I’m comparing not just as energy drinks but as grape flavored drinks, too. Then what I’m going to do is put in a little bit of water to start. Then pour the flavor packet into the bottle. Swirl and pre-mix. Then finish filling the bottle with high pressure hot tap water.

The Comparison Tests

Crush

First off, I test Grape Crush. Crush is always very flavorful and very sweet, so it’s going to be a tough standard to match up to. Especially for the sugar-free drink in grape flavor.
I got a lot of fruit flavor out and it’s sweet and syrup laden like the soda. A good simulation of stuff in the cans, but with no corn syrup. The mix uses maltitol. The color’s very thick.
That first sip is aromatic you can taste the flavor before the water even hits your mouth.
So that’s our standard for flavor in a sugar-free beverage now for one of what I consider one of the best tasting powdered energy drinks this is Next up is the Walmart brand, Great Value. This is their grape flavored energy drink.

Great Value Energy Drink

See the flavor effervescing from the bottle although not so much. That’s a good flavor it sort of reminds me of Kool-Aid grape flavor or like a grape jelly. It is not over-sweet but is very fruity. With the caffeine it’s got B vitamins and lots of other energy ingredients in another caffeine, so this is one of my favorite energy drinks in the market. Enjoy a pretty good flavor but you can still taste the caffeine a little bit.
So, while I like the flavor and I like the energy, I’ve been trying to find an aspartame free alternative to it.

This is my standard for an energy drink with grape flavor.

Because aspartame is the first ingredient listed, I got aspartame symptoms. What I mean by that is the sort of a flemminess of stickiness in the back of my throat causing difficulty in swallowing. A sort of the pasty oily buildup that happens. It’s kind of unpleasant. While it doesn’t detract from the energy aspect, it does detract from the experience of drinking it.

Crystal Light

So now I’m going to try one that’s available in a lot of grocery stores. This one was found at Walmart is crystal light this is basically their crystal light product with caffeine added to it.

I like this one because citric acid is listed first and then maltodextrin and then aspartame. I was able to drink one without aftertaste or throat irritation.
This one is very sweet. It tastes almost like regular refined sugar a little bit of the fruity taste too. The color is a little blue in the suds, but it’s purple when it mixes.
Like the first drink it’s a see-through kind of coloring. It’s not so thick as you get with some of these others. The taste is actually close to the taste of actual fresh fruit. it’s almost like taking a bite out of a grape. It’s a very satisfying grape flavor.

Good & Smart

Next it gets more interesting. It is from Good & Smart, a Dollar General store brand. Now this is going to be the first drink that criteria and fits my actual priority. Although the flavor is not necessarily grape, it’s some kind of acai blend berry flavor mix. This is the closest thing they had to grape, but this is the first aspartame free product that I have to show you. It’s actually sweetened with sucralose and acesulfame potassium and has natural flavors. This one also has a lot of the B vitamins, ginseng, and other energy components not just caffeine powered.

Mio

Now this says it has 18 servings that’s like one full squeeze from the
container. But it makes me wonder whether that amount changes depending on how high the level is in the bottle. After 8 servings it takes more than one squirt to be equivalent.
This mixes really fast. I don’t see any changes in continuity in the color. It looks like everything’s the same shade of purple and again it’s another sort of subtle color. You can really see straight through this one as well. The color is a little off, but it could be right depending on what the grape flavor is like. With this one I can taste the fruitiness of it. It’s sweet, but not only sweet. Because it’s got a little bit of the chemical taste in it from the ingredients. It’s subtle but it’s not necessarily a strong flavor either somewhere in the middle. I can compare it as kind of like the jelly packets in a restaurant.
This gave me a good lift with all these extra ingredients in it and it has no aspartame. So I don’t have to worry about aspartame symptoms which is nice. I’m just not sure whether this flavor holds up compared to the other flavors. It can’t match flavor with Crush for sweetness or flavor. A very slight light purple color appeared washing out the Mio.

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True Lemon

The next one for aspartame free energy drink mixes. This is the energy drink I found a Dollar General. It’s actually a lemonade. So they don’t
really have a grape flavor, but it has no aspartame, so I include it here.
Ugh, it tastes like chemicals. A distinct chalky chemical kind of taste to it and a little bit of fruity taste. The sweetness I guess is there but it’s an aftertaste. Well, the color is kind of grapey. It is sweetened with stevia, empowered with caffeine only.
It almost tastes like medicine but what I’m also detecting is the lemon taste sort of an aftertaste more than a foretaste no it’s still a little bit of chalkiness in the back of my mouth, but it does taste like lemonade with some strawberry or some fruit in it. More like a tea actually. Beside the taste of the stevia is there. Maybe it’s the lemon in here it almost tastes like lemon peel, very zesty. I can say that for it, but I’m not sure I like this as a drink.

Good & Smart brand acai-blueberry

This is another one that’s in the natural products aisle in Dollar General. It’s Good & Smart brand acai-blueberry. They don’t really have a grape, this is pretty close, I guess.
See how this works for an aspartame free energy drink single serve mix. Because it’s got to be a step up from that last one.
Blueberry is not a bad substitute for grape juice kind of similar in a way the dye looks like it’s going to be thick. A little bit of blue color separating from the purple color in the foam. That seems to be a common occurrence with maltitol sweetening. The color is very dark. You can almost not see through it. It tastes like a blueberry jelly.
This one is a winner!

Welch’s Aspartame free orange drink

It’s not terribly sweet but it is fruity, not really overdone at all.
As for an energy drink I think this is really good for a gentle lift. This one is sweetened with citric acid, maltodextrin, and is caffeine powered looks like it’s got not much more than that some B vitamins.
Now we’re going to have a standard for flavor I’m setting the standard using using Welch’s and Welch’s is actually where I got the idea that this needed to be celebrated with a video because they put it in big bold letters it was smaller letters on earlier packaging and now its big bold letters saying “no aspartame”
So apparently, there’s a trend there that people know they don’t want this stuff in their diet anymore. If you combine that with Welch’s superior grape taste, we have a pretty good combination here.
Now mind you, this is not an energy drink, we’re just putting this in to compare flavor. It’s very fruity and naturally sweet tasting. The color is a little on the reddish side, not so much purple. Maybe it’s more like a red grape taste. The coloring is thick, but it spreads evenly.
This one has a very realistic flavor. Not so much sweet like a jelly but more like just actually eating actual grapes. A fresh grape flavor that is very satisfying. None of the energy drinks can match this for flavor. Just throw some caffeine with this you might have a really good product but I’m surprised I expected Welch’s to really set the standard here for this and they did not disappoint. So, with that we’ve got a pretty complete test here.
so that concludes the comparison here.

Here are our drinks again

Great Value is the only one that had aspartame in it. It was also similar to the version of the grape energy drink that they sell at the Meijer store. So I just used this one to represent both. True Lemon is some kind of weird lemon tea with flavor. It did not work out so well. The Welch’s is the flavor standard with no aspartame. The Crystal Light with no aspartame and the acai which are both good for flavor but it’s not the grape flavor and grape Crystal Light was a satisfying energy drink but striking the balance between the energy components and the sweetener is a difficult thing. I don’t think Mio did that very well with a single serving so if you’re maintaining the best flavor with energy.
Now I like the Crystal Light grape a lot Yeah was a good flavor just wasn’t
great or else I would have ranked a little higher but look at the chart it’ll show you what the value is at the end how much it costs per serving, as well as what the sweetener is what the energy component is and where you can find it.

Going Aspartame Free

I really like this new trend that’s going on right now with sugarless drinks and sugarless candies where there’s phasing out aspartame in favor of other sweeteners. So that concludes our sugarless single serve drink mixes with grape flavor. I hope you enjoyed this don’t forget to subscribe and smash the like button and share let people know what I’m doing here guiding people to a sugar-free lifestyle.

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