Aug 13, 2018 22:01:00

I tried a natural energy drink 'Suntory Southern Alps PEAKER Bitter Energy' to compete against 'energy drinks chemically and artificially'

According to Suntory, "Energy drink has a chemical and artificial image," what is entering it, although it seems to be booming as new products are appearing when seeing the shelves of energy drinks at convenience stores There is an opinion that drinking is a bit scary because I do not know whether there is, "he says that it is not that it is actually being drunk by such a wide range of people. The new product born there is " Suntory Alpine PEAKER Bitter Energy ". Release is from August 21 (Tuesday), 2018, but I got a sample sent quickly, so I tried drinking what energy drink.

Suntory Southern Alps PEAKER Bitter Energy | Suntory Natural Water Suntory
https://www.suntory.co.jp/water/tennensui/product/peaker.html

There are many types of energy drinks in cans, but this "Southern Alps PEAKER Bitter Energy" comes with a 375 ml plastic bottle. As an energy drink, it is a large capacity category. Red bird mark is impressive.

There is a graph of 'catching copy' that does not fall to the end, 'BINTER ENERGY DRINK ' and 'DRINKING STYLE' where the jumping red bird flies fluently in a fluffy manner. "Natural mineral water" is the main ingredient, followed by "sugar (sugar, palatinose, high-fructose liquid sugar), organic grapefruit juice, salt, guaiusa extract, mint extract, ginger". Palatinose is a saccharide made from starch, guayusa is tea including caffeine.

The components per 100 ml are 33 kcal of energy, 0 g of protein, 0 g of lipid, 8.3 g of carbohydrate, 7.8 g of saccharide, 0.08 g of sodium chloride equivalent, 300 mg of citric acid and 12 mg of caffeine. Energy drinks often contain plenty of caffeine, but in the case of PEAKER it is 45 mg in terms of one bottle, which is less than the conventional energy drink. It is almost the same as one green tea drink.

The table comparing the ingredients with other energy drinks is as follows. "-" is what was not shown on the label. Other than PEAKER "Monster Energy" data taken at the time of landing in Japan , although the number may be changed now, you can see that PEAKER is exceptional as an energy drink.

	PEAKER	Red Bull	Monster Energy	Monster Chaos	burn energy drink	burn energy boost	rock star
Energy (kcal)	33	46	50	31	60	88	58
Protein (g)	0	0	0	0.5	0	1.8	0.3
Lipid (g)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.1
Carbohydrate (g)	8.3	10.7	12.6	7	15	20	14.1
Salt equivalent (sodium / mg)	80	80	78	0	14	0	24.1
Caffeine (mg)	12	32 (250 ml) / 43.24 (185 ml)	40	40	32	100	48
Arginine (mg)	-	120	125	125	125	600	120
Niacin (mg)	-	3	8.5	8.5	3.8	4.4	8
Vitamin B 2 (mg)	-	0.09	0.7	0.7	0.2	0.2	1.44

Due to the large volume of 375 ml, the label has a scale indicating the remaining amount.

Since the fragrance is weak, it is not enough to spread around the glass even if it is poured into a glass. As you approach your nose, it smells like soft sweetness that tickles the back of your nose and freshness that mixes with Sue and nose-like freshness after ginger is grated. After tasting the taste of "bitternessed carbonated drinks" like ginger ale, the taste continues with the flavor of carbonated beverages including sweetness of fruits such as appletea and champagne. However, this sweetness is not so strong, there is a feeling that the bitterness that passed before goes on, and it seems to be said that it will be "dry" as expression. Although it is said that "bitterness / strong carbonic acid" is a feature, as a drinking impression the stimulation of carbonic acid is not so strong, there is irritation called Schwaşwa from the tip to the center of the tongue, but the whole mouth starts to splash There is no such feeling.

Although it is "Energy drink", there is not much "medicine", it is about the middle of carbonated drink and energy drink, so even people who do not like the energy flavor unique flavor may be able to drink this.

The price is 190 yen per one, and it was released in Ten Prefectures (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Nagano, Niigata, Yamanashi, Shizuoka) from August 21, 2018 , The nationwide launch is planned from October 2018.