Powerade Cherry

Water is so yesterday. Nowadays when you go to a gym or a sports shop, sports drinks dominate the shelves and are touted as the new way to refresh yourself during exercise. I have to admit that even though I love water I do like a taste to my drinks and love the sports drinks from Powerade. The berry and tropical fruits flavour is my favourite flavour but they didn't have it in the gym the last couple of times I've been there so I've got into the cherry flavour recently. Firstly a bit of history about Powerade.Powerade is a sports drink manufactured by the Coca Cola company. It is actually classified as an Isotonic sports drink. After looking up the actual ...  Read the complete review

On the search for a grown up Cherry drink I came across this, this idea of having a proper Cherry drink had gotten into my head since I had some Cherry Coke a week or two back. For some reason the options on the Cherry flavoured drinks seemed to be dominated by kids drinks such as Cherryade or the Cherry Coke, in which the Cherry sadly only played a cameo role instead of being the star of the show. So Powerade Cherry was hopefully the answer, a grown ups Cherry drink that put the cherry first. The drink is what is termed an "Isotonic" drink, the best I know of that word is the concept that to be fully hydrated we need things other than water. ...  Read the complete review

I don't normally go for the gimmick of sports drinks being good for you after you have performed because "they replace certain fluids and rehydrate your body" because there has been reports that just plain water is as good for you. But i saw a 4 pack of these Powerade Cherry flavour drink in my local pound shop (for a pound!!) recently and decided to give it a go. I play football twice a week, so i thought i'd see what all the fuss was about. All i can say was i didn't really see much difference after the game. I didn't feel any better than normal for drinking it rather than water, except the flavour was obviously nicer, and i'd rather ...  Read the complete review

Powerade is marketed as a sports drink, and, the UK its main rival is Lucozade. Lucozade is a very nice drink, no doubt about it, and I think that some flavours of Powerade are nice, and some not so nice. Cherry is one of the nicest flavours and, in my opinion, is better than a Lucozade drink. Because it's a sports drink, it contains lots of sugar 'to help you replenish your energy (yeah, right), and this makes it quite sweet. It also has an artificial cherry taste to it, so this wouldn't appeal to some people. It's very easy to drink quickly, and, to be fair, if you have it after a workout it does give you back some of your energy ...  Read the complete review