New Healthy, Energy Drinks Have Superior Ingredients

As the older energy drinks fizz out, healthy energy drinks are starting to take their place. The usual mountains of sugar and caffeine are being replaced by more natural ingredients like stevia, a substance about 30 times sweeter than sugar. The caffeine junkies are finding out about an ingredient from Brazil called guarana that is similar to caffeine but does not dissolve in water; it is time released inside our bodies. This natural superiority of healthy energy drinks is taking its toll on those older junk energy drinks that ruled the market in the years past. Let's take a look at some of these new ingredients and what it is that makes up a good healthy energy drink.

Guarana is usually taken from the seeds of the plant by the same name, and used in newer healthy energy drinks. A new drink called ACT (Advanced Cell Therapy ) has this ingredient. Brazilians have used it many of their carbonated soft drinks for energy and for stimulation. But guarana has something in it called theobromine. Theobromine is the ingredient in real chocolate that gives chocolate its "feel good" effect when eaten. Since guarana has this "feel good" ingredient also, look for those healthy energy drinks that contain guarana instead of caffeine. Did you know the energy drink Red Bull was banned in France? They banned it and said it had "too much caffeine". Caffeine is water soluble, that is it dissolves in water, and is absorbed quickly in our bodies, since we are made with lots of water. Guarana is not water soluble, and will dissolve more slowly inside our bodies, making the energy effect last longer, without that characteristic "spike" of caffeine. The better healthy energy drinks will go ahead and use guarana instead of caffeine since it lasts longer and is therefore superior.