Nestle Vanilla Nutrament

A Fair & Honest Energy Drink Review

Nestle Vanilla Nutrament Retail Package Description

Nestle Vanilla Nutrament comes in an old-style heavy tin can. It feels like a can of beans, or one of the Asian energy drinks, like Carbao or M-150. Then there's a paper label on it, which is very much like a Campbell's soup label (I don't think they provide school supplies in exchange for these labels though). The label has a real late 70's - early 80's aerobics outfit feel to it. It reminds me of Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" video.

There's some sort of tribal art that looks like people dancing around, perhaps emerging from the tribal smoke at the bottom of the can. On second thought, maybe the label reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix album cover. I don't know. It's weird, whatever it is.

Textually, it reads, "Nestle Nutrition", "Vanilla Nutrament complete nutrition drink", "24 vitamins and minerals", "16g of protein", "Calcium From Skim Milk - to help build strong bones", "35% daily value - of 24 vitamins and minerals", "16g of protein - to help build muscle".

The back reads, "Just chill the can and shake vigorously to release the inner power. Nutrament is The Complete Energy Drink that keeps you going strong. Perfect as a creamy, delicious snack, meal replacement or post workout beverage."

Caffeine Addict's Nestle Vanilla Nutrament Review

While the urologist and I run some test, I'm supposed to stay away from caffeine, spicy foods and alcohol. That leaves me a great deal of time to consider what one does with their life apart from caffeine, spicy foods and alcohol. I'm left with many questions, but few answers.

While considering the future ramifications of my body aging, things like incontinence, being cold in the middle of summer, and eating dinner at 4:15, it occurred to me that I may be overlooking a great deal of the real energy drink market. Lots of older codgers like myself have trouble getting to sleep by 8:30, if they drink too much caffeine, not to mention the high blood pressure and swollen prostate. Additionally, health conscious folks like protein drinks and products that aid in post-workout recovery. Lastly, a lot of people just want a meal replacement drink that makes them feel good, and gives them a healthy dose of vitamins and minerals.

So, now that the caffeine withdrawl headaches have subsided, and I don't want to physically hurt anything that makes noise, I can take this time of caffeine hiatus to survey these nutrition drinks, that make similar strength, stamina and recovery claims to their caffeinated counterparts.

Firstly, I should read labels. The primary ingredient in Nestle Nutrament is skim milk. Since I'm mildly lactose intolerant, and hadn't consumed any significant dairy in a couple of weeks, my bowels offered an explosive reaction. If feces were fireworks, yesterday was the fourth of July. My bowels spewed forth enough content to make another Katy Perry album. I'm not sure my digestive system got to hang on to this long enough to fully digest all the vitamins, minerals and calories, but aside from the digestive duress, I still felt pretty good.

So, for those of you who don't have irritable bowels, I'll say this. Nestle's Nutrament Vanilla flavor tastes great! It tastes like Vanilla milkshake, but not as thick, so I'm not thirsty after drinking it. If you're able to digest it normally, it's got 360 calories, about 1/3 of your daily protein and about 1/5th of your daily carbs. I think most reasonable dieticians would consider this a "light lunch" if used as a meal replacement. With a healthy dose or protein and carbs, it also seems like a pretty good recovery drink, particularly for folks intending to put on some mass.

So, for all the folks constantly commenting and emailing me, telling me that I'm poisoning the youth of the world by promoting "power drinks", a term apparently only used at post-bingo meetings at the senior center, here I am recommending a non-caffeinated meal replacement drink for sustained energy and dietary health. Unfortunately, Nutrament isn't quite as fashionable as Monster, Red Bull and Rockstar, so I'm not sure how far my recommendation of Nutrament will change the tide of obesity and general poor health within American youth, but like the aforementioned drinks, it is priced at $1.99, and I think that's a swell value.

Energy Junkie's Nestle Vanilla Nutrament Review

Thanks to Jason's inability to urinate like normal people, now I'm supposed to go off caffeine and drink this nutrition supplement/meal replacement/protein shake mess. Here's my review, "it doesn't have any caffeine". What more do you need to know? If it weren't for the fact that it has about 1/3 of everything (besides caffeine) that your body need every day, this review would almost be a ridiculous as 5-Hour Decaf and Wat-aah! Energy Water. At least Nutrament has something worthwhile in it.

Well, not surprisingly to me, it tastes good. It's like sweetened milk. I love milk, and I love it more after it's been absorbing sugar from one of the many sugary cereals I'm not supposed to eat. On that note, perhaps Jason is not a total d-bag, as I'm sure Nutrament is more healthy than the entire large pan pizza from Pizza Hut that I'd originally intended to have for lunch today. So, here's to hoping one day of Nutrament offsets years of gluttony and habitual cigarette smoking.

Amazingly, Nutrament did manage to keep my hunger satiated for the majority of the day. I didn't feel the sort of energy boost I get from caffeine, but I've got no reason to complain. If I had to describe the my overall state in a word, it would be "balanced". Mentally and physically I felt pretty good. In fact, the post-lunch hangover I usually get from gorging myself (probably to quell the depression concerning my unfulfilled life) wasn't an issue at all today. If this feeling continues, I may find myself going home and exercising...but probably not.

As for price, I wouldn't buy this just to replace a monster for $2 (I love caffeine too much), but I would buy it to replace a couple of burgers at lunch. For me, I'm likely to start the day with a caffeinated energy drink (in place of the coffee many people drink), and drink Nutrament at lunch. Often, I'm consuming an energy drink around all three meals, which is around 600 empty calories, before I even start accounting for the food.