No shaking, no annoying taste! Just a refreshing and wonderful drink you can have during your workout or before work. Skip the coffee and have a fresher start to your day!

First off, I am sensitive to most energy drinks these days (i.e., monster, rockstar, bang, reign, etc.), and most of those have given me bad anxiety or panic attacks likely due to the ingredients and high level of caffeine (300mg). I was hesitant to want to try ZOA as i assumed it would be like any other energy drink I've had.

My findings:
Caffeine: it's perfectly tolerable for me. The green tea coffee and green tea extract total out with "natural caffeine" at 160mg. The caffeine in here appears to be naturally sourced which metabolizes differently then normal lab (synthetic) produced high content caffeine like other major brands (which usually causes jitters, shakes, anxiety etc.) The synthetic caffeine also tends to give you a faster caffeine rush vs the more natural caffeine which is why you experience a crash.

I've found it to be a perfect mid-day pick-me-up, a perfect pre workout or even a good post workout to get you back on your feet after being tired. Best of all, i don't experience a "crash" like I do on many other energy drinks. I don't get the shakes, "rush" or crazy side effects I've felt with other energy drinks. This seems to be just the perfect amount of ingredients to be tolerable and also doesn't include the things like ginseng, taurine and other junk. Zoa has the good balance of vitamins, the camu camu and turmeric extract.

Sugar: if you want to keep it simple then get the sugar version with normal sugar and it will keep you fuller, but then yes there is the sugar aspect to it. I prefer to stick to the artificial sweeteners and I'm personally okay with sucrolose but yes ace-k has been linked to its issues (cancer, Brian function, etc.). Personally if you are drinking energy drinks in the first place you can't expect to have every ingredient be healthy anyway - i don't think that's reasonable with any energy drink. But the taste from the regular sugar and artificial sweeteners are great. I have nothing bad to say about them. It's not stevia or monk fruit but at the end of the day they are all just sweetners.

Flavors: I'd rank them in this order: Pineapple Coconut, Tropical Punch, Orange, White Peach, Super Berry. I don't care for original or lemon lime. But the first five"¦ absolutely love them (I'm sure my picture of my fridge speaks for itself lol). Flavors are delicious and taste just as they are described. Some don't like the flavor likely due to the sweetners, but they taste even better with regular sugar version.

Overall, ZOA is awesome IMO. Definitely recommend trying it if you've been hesitant.

This was my first time trying this brand of energy drink. I picked it up at a gas station on a whim. I LOVED it!! I went online and made sure to buy as many cases as I could afford. I wish this was an all year around flavor!! Will buy again this upcoming Christmas!!

I love that the Zoas help get my energy up for my workout but don't make me jittery and agitated like Red Bull does. I'm 62 and don't love exercising but these drinks do help keep me going.

These drinks were good for my husband and I. We didn't feel they were too sweet but had a good flavor and we got a good amount of energy from them.