Hey everybody, Caffeine Man here and today we're gonna be discussing, Is Bang
Energy Drink keto friendly? A lot of people have been doing well with the keto
diet and this new diet has really been gaining popularity. What else has been
gaining in popularity? Bang energy drink. So we're gonna go over if Bang energy
drink is keto friendly and we're also going to do a product review on three
keto specific Bang energy drinks. All coming right up.
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Hello again everyone! Thanks for joining me. In today's video we're gonna be going over
Is bang energy drink keto friendly? I'll briefly go over what the Keo diet is,
then I'll go over the basic ingredients in Bang energy drink to see if they're
keto friendly, then after an overall review, to see if Bang is keto friendly,
I'm gonna do a taste test and product review of three specific keto Bang energy drinks.
Bang came out with three keto specific coffee drinks and the
flavors are Heavenly Hazelnut, Cookies and Cream Craze and Mocha Madness.
I'll let you know how those taste compared to the other Bang energy drinks. And if
you're actually curious what the other Bang energy drinks tastes like, I also
did two other product reviews covering almost all the Bang energy drinks, so
feel free to check them out in a card above or just at the end of this video.
The ketogenic diet, or keto for short, is a low-carb, high fat diet that's known to
have many health benefits. In addition to losing weight, currently it's most common
use, there have also been several studies that have suggested that keto diets may have
benefits against diabetes, cancer, epilepsy and alzheimer's disease. This
very low carb, high fat diet shares many similarities to the Atkins diet and
other low carb diets and they actually have several different kinds of keto diets.
The most common one is the standard keto diet which consists of 75% fat,
20% protein and only 5% carbs. The keto diet involves drastically reducing
carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat. This reduction in carbs puts
your body into a metabolic state called ketosis. When this happens, your body
becomes incredibly efficient at burning fat for energy. So when it comes to Bang,
Is bang energy drink keto friendly? Let's take a look at the ingredients.
First, let's start off with caffeine... because I'm Caffeine Man! Bang energy drink has
300 milligrams of caffeine, so it's going to help you stay energized when working out
and it's also going to help boost your metabolism.
It also has creatine. Creatine can increase muscle mass, strength and exercise performance.
This also has CoQ10 in it. CoQ10 helps the production of ATP, which is a chemical form of energy, and will help
increase power during exercise and reduce fatigue.
This also has lots of B vitamins in it, Niacin, Vitamin C, magnesium, as well as a bunch of BCAAs.
BCAAs are branched chain amino acids. Branched chain amino acids, is difficult
to say, and are good to increase muscle growth, decrease muscle soreness and
also reduce exercise fatigue. So these drinks are excellent for gaining energy
and improving workout performance. Combine all of those things and then
include that there's no sugar, no carbs and no calories, and you got yourself a
keto friendly energy drink! There isn't anything that's gonna take you out of
ketosis and it also helps to improve your metabolism and gives you energy.
If you want to find out more in-depth details about those specific ingredients
in Bang energy drink, feel free to watch my first video I did on Bang energy
drink. It is titled "Is bang energy drink good for you?" But for now those are just
the basics as to why Bang energy drink is keto friendly. But why is it just friendly?
Why can't it be more than just friends?
Why is it not 'perfect' for the keto diet?
Well even though it doesn't have any sugar or any carbs or any
calories, it also doesn't have any protein or any fat. So it's friendly, just not perfect.
But what's this? Aahhhh... can I swipe right on Bank keto energy drink?
It's a keto specific energy drink. Are you keto's soulmate? Let's take a look and find out.
So how is Bang keto energy drink different than the regular Bang
energy drink? Let's take a look at some of the ingredients. It still has 300 milligrams of caffeine
and it still has a bunch of BCAAs in it, but it also has 20 grams of protein in it, so that seems keto friendly to me.
Let's look at some of the other ingredients. Besides protein, fat matters, so let's see how much fat is in.
It this has 2 grams of fat, so not very much fat, and if I recall correctly
it's supposed to be a high fat diet and a low carb diet. So let's move on to
carbs and see how many carbs are in it.
What? This has 11 grams of carbs in it. Granted it's got 5 dietary fibers so if you're looking at net carbs you're
looking at 6 net carbs, but that doesn't seem right. I'm going to the other two as well.
All right, so the other two have 10 carbohydrates and 9 carbohydrates; dietary fiber 6, dietary fiber 5,
so yeah these two end up having 4 net carbs in them, so I'm not sure what's going on, but that
doesn't sound keto friendly to me. When you look at the keto diet you're
looking at high fat, low carb. Protein is in the middle there, but still, the two main
things are high fat and low carb. In these drinks you have more carbs than
you do fat, so from a quick glance you have just the opposite. You have high carbs,
lower fat. That just doesn't make sense. I mean granted it does have all that
protein in it but that makes it a protein energy drink. It doesn't make it
a keto energy drink. Okay, so let's not beat around the bush here. I'm a big fan
of Bang. I love almost all their flavors. I love the amount of caffeine that it
has in it. I love the health benefits of it. I love that it doesn't have any sugar,
because I'm trying to cut down on my sugar intake as well, and they got a lot of
delicious flavors... and they're still coming out with more! So I'm a big fan of Bang.
But when it comes to these keto drinks, they're not keto. They're protein energy drinks.
Looks like I'm swiping left on keto energy drinks.
Now, there's definitely been a lot of controversy over this.
Pretty much anybody who's doing Keto diet, is going to tell you that these drinks are not
keto, and that's just based on what I told you.
Keto is high fat, low carb and this drink has more carbs than it does fat. Sure,
it's got the protein but that does not make it keto. But there are still those
people that argue that it's still keto friendly because it only has four net
carbs, or six net carbs, so it's not extremely high on the carbs, so you can
fit it into your keto diet; Therefore it's keto friendly. And it does
have 20 grams of protein, so that adds to it being keto friendly as well. And it
has a little bit of fat in it, but it's really, really, really just a little, itty, bitty...
so those people can argue that they think it's keto friendly but you're
not going convince anybody that's actually strict on the keto diet that
it's keto friendly. Let alone even keto! I mean, if you're going to have an energy drink
and you're on the keto diet, you're gonna go for a regular Bang energy drink, not a
keto one, because the regular Bang energy drinks are more friendly than the keto
Bang energy drinks. Yeah, sure, the keto has 20 grams of protein, but it also has
carbs! The Bang energy drinks don't have ANY carbs and that's the BIG thing
about keto, is that it's a LOW CARB diet. Nobody on keto is going to waste 4 net
carbs when they're only allowed 20 for the day! It's just too big of a gamble, so
your regular Bang energy drink is going to be more keto friendly than the keto Bang
energy and that seems pretty ridiculous. They really need to take "keto" off of
this and just focus on it being a coffee energy drink. That's right, all three of
them are coffee flavored. So let's take a few minutes and put aside the fact that
they say they're ket, though, and let's look at it as an energy drink. Is it a good
flavored coffee energy drink? Let's go ahead and find out.
First, we'll start off with the Cookies and Cream Craze.
*small gulp*
Yeah, that's good. It tastes just like cookies and cream and I'm very surprised
that they're not carbonated. It would be kind of weird to have coffee that's carbonated
but you never know. So I'm happy that it's not carbonated. That's a plus for me.
It tastes just like coffee and it tastes like cookies and cream, so if you forget
the fact that is supposed to be keto, you actually got a good protein
energy drink right here, as well as only one gram of sugar. So if you're not doing
a keto diet, you're just on a regular diet, you could probably fit this in.
Next, we'll try the Mocha Madness.
*gulp*
Okay, it's got the mocha taste to it. It's got the
coffee flavor. The mocha is kind of subtle. I've had different mochas from Starbucks
and Dunkin Donuts and the mocha tends to be a bit stronger. This is sort
of a light mocha and it's got a slight... one more...
I hate to say it but, it's kind of got a slight chalky taste to it. Overall I'm not a huge fan and I
probably wouldn't pick this one up. The Cookies and Cream had a little bit of a
better flavor to it. So I'm not too fond of this one and I'm gonna move on to the next.
And lastly, we have the Heavenly Hazelnut.
*gulp*
Wow! That one's really good!
It's got a strong hazelnut flavor and the coffee flavor is really good.
I'd actually heard that out of the three of them, this one was people's favorites and
I can see why. Out of the three of them, this is the one I'd probably grab, even
more so than the cookies and cream. But this one is a good hazelnut.
So if you like hazelnut coffee and want to have yourself a hazelnut energy drink, go
ahead and try the Bang Heavenly Hazelnut.
So there you have it! Overall, Bang energy drinks, the regular ones, ARE keto friendly.
Bang keto specific drinks are NOT very keto friendly.
I mean they really need to just change the name,
They'll need to re-label it as, like, a protein drink or something like that.
I mean, it does say 'high protein coffee' but still it says 'keto coffee' on the top.
I don't see how we can stay on the market as a keto drink. Actually, that would be
kind of fun to keep track of. Today is February 26, 2019. Let's see how
long it is before they take keto off the can, if they take it off at all.
But, if it does ever happen, leave me comments down below to let me know I'm a psychic!
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...or night.
I can predict the future!
They're going to take 'keto' off the can. It's February 26, 2019 and keto will be coming off the can...just when?
*laugh* Imagine if that happened? I mean people would, like, leave comments like crazy.
"Caffeine Man predicts the future!!!"
What else can I predict? 1000 subscribers by October 2019.
The Patriots will win the Super Bowl. Which one? I don't know, the next one.
Bernie Sanders will be the next president after Donald Trump.
*laugh*
Caffeine Man will be so big, he will be on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Man, if any of that stuff comes true, that'll just be weird.
I need to cut down on my caffeine...