Energy drinks are composed mainly on caffeine. Caffeine is what gives you the long lasting rush of energy, but aside from caffeine there are a lot more chemicals and ingredients that go in the mixture to create the energy drink or shot. Different brands use different quantities of each product but the five most common ingredients found by researchers where the following: Vitamin B12, Vitamin B6, Caffeine, Vitamin B3, and Taurine. They are in order of largest percentage found per serving. According to a recent study, caffeine is the only ingredient that actually works by giving you energy, the other ingredients are more passive, meaning they still have an effect on your body but it is not as visible as the caffeine. Participants who drank only caffeinated water had the same brain activity and response times as those who consumed 5 Hour Energy, which adds also many of the above ingredients. As you can see above there are a lot of B vitamins, they are found naturally in the foods we eat and are the most widely used…
his helmet, shakes out his hair, and, naturally, grabs a Monster Energy Drink to refuel. This rapturing commercial promotes the consumption of energy drinks to today’s youth. What are these companies really promoting, though? Energy drinks contain unhealthy ingredients that cause detrimental health effects. Upon looking into the ingredients of a common…
adults to consume” (as cited in Harris and Munsell,2007). The market shares of functional drinks comprise of energy drinks contribute to 63% while nutraceutical drinks about 10% and sports drinks for 27%. (Datamonitor 2008). Energy drinks have lot of risk involved in them that can create physiological effects on child’s brain and also how marketing restriction should be made for energy drinks (Harris and Munsell,2007). Even due to such high level of caffeine content and complex…
Energy drinks are causing many health problems in our society, particularly against teens and younger people. This has sparked a debate as to whether they should be banned. Even though energy drinks are harmful in large quantities this doesn’t mean that they should be banned. Doing that would be a drastic overreaction. People should have the right to choose what to consume, especially when the product in question is fine in moderation. First off, let’s establish that energy drinks are in fact…
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PERSUASIVE SPEECH(Draft) TITLE:Why Energy Drink Is Bad for You? Good morning to my fellow lecturer and friends.Before I start my speech I'm very sure many of you who like to drink energy drinks especially boys.I am sure most of you think that energy drinks can boost energy but when I am doing some research they are actually can be very dangerous for your health.That is why I strongly agree that all of you should avoid and stop consume energy drinks.There are three good reasons to support my…
Today in our modern society many people emphasize on energy drinks. In their opinion, energy drinks are the best solution to problems. Well, is it true? Let's see. Energy drinks are commonly used by the young generation, mostly men age between 18 to 34 (Energy Drinks, 2017). It is used to increase physical and mental condition. Energy drink was first made in Japan in 1960 by a company named Taisho. They created energy drink named Liptoviton-D(Engber, D. 2013). It was introduced as a drink for…
Energy drinks are separate from sports drinks such as Aquarius, 100 plus, etc. the first energy drink was launched in 1929 in UK. The energy drink was introduced as a hospital drink for recovering the energy lost in the body. The energy drink was developed as a drink for replenishing the loss of energy from the body. Energy drinks are usually made up of caffeine, taurine, sugar, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and other herbs which is typically taken during or after sporting activity or to…
Controversy of Vitamin Drinks According to F.D.A., vitamin enhanced beverages and sports drinks account for sales of more than $18 billion a year in the United States alone. Throughout the past year there has been an addition of vitamin content in many vitamin drinks. Companies are increasingly adding vitamins and minerals to vitamin drinks. This addition of vitamins can be beneficial to people facing vitamin deficiency and people who just don’t have the time to get their vitamins in their…
Consuming energy drinks can increase your body on doing “physical and mental performances”. Most energy drinks mainly contain high caffeine from a variety of 74 to 100 milligrams along with others that may include “plant based stimulants such as Guarana and ginseng.” For instance, a cup of five ounces of coffee can contain ninety five or one hundred milligrams of coffee, Pepsi includes sixty nine milligrams and for a Starbucks Venti Coffee contains 415 milligrams of caffeine. Almost every energy…