Junk Food Nation, it’s Friday, and I have a lot of random thoughts to get out of my head.  So let’s get to it:

1. Happy birthday to co-worker @Margietime, the only person I know who loves Twitter and politics more than me.

2. The winner of Culinary Circle Pizza Gift Card!  Thanks for all the great comments.  I used Random.org like I always do to choose a number among the 23 current comments and it spit out… 7!  Which is…ah…Kris K.!  Congrats Kris K.  I’ll be emailing you soon.

3. Snapchat, the popular quick-photo messaging service turned down $3 billion dollars from Facebook.  I kind of get it – Snapchat is the most popular service among kids, and they think they can get more.  Still, $3 billion?? Yeah, you might be the next Twitter IPO and earn $25 billion later on…but you could also be Groupon.  Ouch.

Today’s junk food is water!  Wait what? Well, because of this blog, I get some interesting things sent to me, and this one struck me as pretty interesting: Avitae Caffeinated Water!

Avitae Caffeinated Water: The Money Shot

Avitae Caffeinated Water is just one of apparently a few caffeinated water drinks out there.  My buddy Mike said he used to have this in college during sports, but I’d never heard of anything like this before.    Add to that that I’m not REALLY a caffeine drinker, and I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about this.  Thankfully, there IS someone in my life who IS a big caffeine drinker: The Junk Food Gal.

Avitae Caffeinated Water: 90 and 45

When I showed the Junk Food Gal this Avitae Caffeinated Water, she was intrigued.  Apparently, the 45mg bottle (yellow) had as much caffeine as a diet soda, and the 90mg one (red) had as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.  The Junk Food Gal makes coffee that “wakes the dead” according to her.  Her eyebrows were definitely raised when she saw this.

Avitae Caffeinated Water: 16.9 oz

Avitae Caffeinated Water comes in 16.9 oz bottles, which is a decent amount of water for a single serving.  My question about this is, does it taste any different?  Avitae says NOPE – no taste at all.  It tastes like water, and only water.

Avitae Caffeinated Water: zero cal

Ok then, Avitae Caffeinated Water…so this will hydrate me AND give me caffeine?  Sounds sort of oxymoronic, but I get it.  I wonder: IS this good for athletes?  I mean, so weight lifters drink coffee before they lift; would this also be a good replacement?

Avitae Caffeinated Water: Simple ingredients

Avitae Caffeinated Water contains natural caffeine and citric acid in addition to the water itself.  Funny sidenote: the 90mg version is made in a different city than the 45mg version.  Because….that makes sense 😉

Avitae Caffeinated Water: WATER WATER EVERYWHERE

Avitae Caffeinated Water, once opened, didn’t smell any different, or look any different.  I gulped a little bit, and – yep – tasted just like water.  Refreshing, completely normal smell and taste, cool bottle…. I liked it!  But I wasn’t the best tester for the caffeine half of it, so I turned to the Junk Food Gal.

Avitae Caffeinated Water: Clear as day

The Junk Food Gal had a good amount of the 90mg version of Avitae Caffeinated Water, and she told me that after a while, she did feel more awake, just like when she has coffee.  She did posit, however, that many times the reason why coffee wakes her, and I’m sure many others, up is because of the amazing smell coffee has.  With this water, would people get the same psychological effect?

Unsure.  That said, this is a cool concept to me, especially because you could do a lot with it.  Take the water and freeze it into caffeinated ice cubes.  Make coffee WITH the caffeinated water to make even MORE caffeinated coffee.  I mean, hell, add the caffeinated water to anything – smoothies, cocktails, whatever – to add a kick.

Interesting product, Avitae, and thanks for letting me try it!

PURCHASED AT: Sent to me, buy you can buy it everywhere or online here.

COST: Looks like it runs about a buck a bottle.

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Sincerely,

Junk Food Guy