Weird Drinks: Spring Valley Smart Energy Blood Orange & Chilli
What’s more disconcerting than an energy drink flavoured like blood oranges and chillies? A blood orange and chilli flavoured energy drink that doesn’t actually have chillies in it. Spring Valley has a new line of “Smart Energy” drinks featuring such a flavour (so new, they aren’t even on their website yet. That, or they’re just lazy).
As a fan of chili chocolate, I was pretty excited to try this drink. Chillies create a warm, friendly burning in your mouth. This, however, causes scary chemical burn in your throat that is probably not unlike battery acid, or self induced acid reflux. It’s a more palatable, more fruity version of the worst energy drink I’ve ever had - Cocaine, which is more like a pepper spray-based drink than an alternative to street drugs. It was so vile that I couldn’t have more than one sip.
The artificial chilli flavour of this Smart Energy drink makes me suspect that they came across it by mistake, and decided to turn a flaw into a feature. “Oh, it’s crap, this is supposed to taste like orange, but it makes my throat burn!” “Just say its chilli flavoured! The kids will go crazy for it!” Or maybe, as my friend suggested, it’s just a guise to get rid of some gross chemical that was taking up room in the Spring Valley factory.
There is one plus side to this drink. Even though there are no actual chillies in the Blood Orange & Chilli drink, it does contain yerba mate, a plant popular in South America, where it is prepared like tea and often served instead of coffee. It’s more potent than coffee but makes you less jittery. Perhaps this is why the drink produces a nice buzz, despite its not so great taste.
But I can’t help but notice that the other supposed flavour is not just orange, but blood orange. Perhaps it’s a subtle suggestion of what will happen to your throat of you drink too much.
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This stuff sounds horrifying; yerba tastes like sticks, and not in the good way like green tea. Dirty sticks mixed with faux chili pepper and orange sounds like hell in a can.
That being said, I would love to try it.
Wow. I googled this after buying it. It’s horrible.
I just tried this as well. Drank about 4/5ths of it so as not to waste it…but really I won’t be buying one of these. Disgusting. Why would someone want a cold spicy/hot energy drink? People want a fizzy sugary energy drink that tastes good. Use your heads big corporate execs.
wow am i the only person who liked this !! yummy !! but when i went to buy some more the woman at coles said tha it had been recalled !! ahh
and there is now no mention of it on the sring valley website !
@ameila - recalled?? for some sort of safety issue?
i saw it at the korean store in northbridge 3 days ago if you want to get it there. (hi mart i think its called)
*gasps* Recalled!?
I’ve just drunk half the can!!
I was sucked in by the cool packaging and witty small print. - but it was the unusual tingly burning sensation that prompted me to Google it…
yikes.
I love this stuff. I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I absolutely love it. It is disturbing that it was recalled, and removed from their site. I hope the don’t pull the whole line…I >may< have an addiction…And as we all know the best way to deal with an addiction is to feed it….Right?
I ated this drink the other day and I thought it was yummo. Mind you, I was eating it with a hot curry, but bloody hell, the two together were awesome!
I give it a 3.5 out of 5. I give the other more “normal” flavours of Spring Valley Smart Energy a 4 out of 5. Compared to V and Redbull, I give both of them give a 3.
[...] named Amelia reported that the Smart Energy Blood Orange & Chilli had been recalled. This was kinda exciting since it [...]
hey all… i checked and it turns out there wasn’t a recall, in fact they don’t even sell it at coles:
http://tunacupcake.com/2009/02/27/update-smart-energy-blood-orange-chilli-not-recalled/
Blood oranges, I love and chilis of various kinds, I love.
(and you mentioned chocolate, though while not in the drink, it goes without saying it’s an essential nutrient lol)
But…. Blood oranges + Chilis? Or rather “nonspecific existential chilis,” since your comment hints that none actually exist.
I’ll try most things once, though. A miracle may occur and the drink be tasty.
On the other hand - literally - my other hand will be tightly clutching my cellphone, with my fingers poised in apprehension over the numbers 9-1-1 “just in case” lmao