Full Throttle Nature is One Bad Mother (Full Throttle Mother)

A Fair & Honest Energy Drink Review

Full Throttle Nature is One Bad Mother (Full Throttle Mother) Retail Package Description

The can is a festive holiday green. The rim of the can reads, as if written by the headmaster of all tree huggers at the hippie commune academy, "Energy from natural resources". I should make it abundantly clear that, where my energy comes from means as little to me as where the next Olympics will be held. To compete with Steven Seagal, I believe this drink is actually fully named, "Full Throttle Nature is One Bad Mother Acai Berry Flavored Energy Drink with Other Natural Flavors", which may be the longest name in the history of products...ever. Full Throttle also shares that the drink contains 40% fruit juice, and has "very low sodium" (35mg or less per 8oz. serving).

Caffeine Addict's Full Throttle Nature is One Bad Mother (Full Throttle Mother) Review

To me, Full Throttle tastes like a mixture of Korean Ginseng Drink and your girlfriend's dad walking around the house in his saggy boxer-briefs unaware that you were previously engaged in heavy petting on the couch, only worse. I wish I could unsubject my taste buds to the unearthly bad flavor that came out of this can. It really does taste very "earthy", and not in a good way, more like you pulled a raw potato out of the ground, and started eating it, dirt and all.

Not extraordinarily energizing, or even a reasonable value (given that it tastes deplorable), and overall, a disgrace to everything else Coca Cola has done with their other energy drink products. If this tastes even remotely like an acai berry, perhaps it could have some success in the Brazilian market, but I'd recommend pulling it from the shelves here, even if it means doing a recall, and claiming the cans were made in China with lead.

Energy Junkie's Full Throttle Nature is One Bad Mother (Full Throttle Mother) Review

What have I done to deserve the torment of acai berry? With as bad as 180 Blue was overall, it doesn't begin to compare to the sickening flavor of Full Throttle Nature is a Bad Mother. Firstly, nature is a bad mother, for creating something that taste so abhorrent as what Coca Cola and Anheuser Busch purport acai berry to taste like. Secondly, the primary difference between the two drinks is that 180 Blue lacks the distinct flavor of ginseng root and dirt that Full Throttle cleverly added to their concoction. Without question, the worst of the Full Throttle line of energy drinks, and the only one I'd say has no redeeming quality.

With, what appears to be a sparse peppering of energizing elements "from natural sources", this drink just continued to disappoint the entire way through. At $1.99, it's not vastly overpriced, but with 100 or more $1.99 16oz drinks on the market to enjoy, and probably 30 or 40 at any given convenience store, this one falls somewhere very near the bottom of my recommendation list. I assume they were trying to appeal to people who are like 39th level vegans or something, and perhaps whatever South American population may be in the distribution regions. For this to not still be a completely moot point, I'd have to know if either this drink, or 180 Blue even taste like acai berry, which I'll likely never know.