Getting Wild with Wild N’ Out
For those of you that have heard about or tried the popular drink Hyphy Juice we’ve mentioned before on this site, I introduce to you the new infant to the family: Wild N’ Out.
Now I know what your thinking, “What kind of lame ass name is Wild N’ Out?” and I know you were thinking this because, well, the exact same thing went through my mind when I first picked up the feminine looking can. I mean, even a bland generic sounding name like Cola sounds better than Wild N’ Out but I guess they were going for wild names like… well, wild. Wild N’ Out 0, Soda 1
Hyphy Juice is well known for it’s unique blend of grape and apple fused into “grapply” goodness but Wild N’ Out is a much simpler mixture of the common Strawberry Lemonade concoction. Though not as exciting as “grapple” I was actually pretty surprised by the taste overall. This is not exactly what I would call an energy drink, more like soda with caffeine crudely stirred in along with some B vitamins, Ginseng, Guarana, and Inositol but nevertheless it tasted good. In fact it tasted so much like soda I had to question whether they even put in all the ingredients they listed. To be more exact, it tastes exactly like a Squirt Strawberry Lemonade fountain drink I’ve had from many fast food chains. Good for you, bad for the fountain drinks. Wild N’ Out 1, Soda 1
The effects were definitely weaker than some other drinks out there, and I didn’t experience any of the usual jitters or fidgeting but I did feel more alert than if I had only drunk a soda. Most of what I felt matched closer to a Guarana-type energy than a caffeine rush and seeing as how Its Good Beverage Company didn’t list the caffeine amount, I doubt there is actually much in the drink. As for the Inositol and Ginseng, I’ll tell you right here and now you shouldn’t pay much attention to either of these “wonder” chemicals unless your allergic or something of the sort. Let’s start with Inositol, this chemical is naturally synthesized by your brain from food intake and the average daily intake is already 1g . Compare this to the 30mg or .03g you would get from this drink and you can see why it’s very unlikely you’ll feel the anti-depressant effects that go along with the chemical. Along similar lines, the Ginseng in this particular drink is Elutherococcus Senticosus, which happens to be the least studied of all three well known Ginseng shrubs. To make a longer explanation short, Ginseng needs to be taken regularly in doses between 200 and 500 milligrams to feel any invigorating effects. Unfortunately, the measly 30mg in this drink is like trying to get drunk off non-alcoholic O Doules, it’s just not going to happen. Wild N’ Out 1.5, Soda 1
It was a close match but it turns out that sometimes on rare occasions such as this, the product can be better than the packaging it comes in and the result is an energy drink that smells like soda, tastes like soda, and looks like soda, but has just enough chemicals thrown in to trick you into believing it isn’t. Maybe this will be the key to ending all those heated arguments between die hard soda lovers and energy drink lovers, unifying them all under one great Strawberry Lemon bliss. This review was totally Wild N’ (I’m) Out.
Overall Score (4/5)
Review by Josh (blog: cubicalism)
5 Comments
The “Wild” refers to Wild 94.9, a hip-hop/R&B station in the Bay Area. The Wild 94.9 logo is near the barcode on cans of the drink.
Thanks, I was aware of that and I do live in the Bay Area, it just didn’t have anything do with the drink so it didn’t seem all that relevant.
[...] 19th 2007 9:36pm [-] From: energyfiend.com [...]
I lik the name Wild’n Out! Sounds kool! like the show!
After going to the website, I will never buy their product.
Get rid of the music, I cannot take your product seriously.