- Hi I'm Parris, and a couple weeks back doing
a video review of some drinks that had added caffeine,
I had sort of a negative reaction.
So I've decided to go the other direction,
I'm not reviewing relaxation drinks.
These will not get you up and going.
These two say they will put you
in sort of a zen frame of mind,
you'll be relaxed but focused.
And the Marley Beverage Company, mellow mood drink,
even says on the can may cause drowsiness.
This may be a laid back review.
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- I found each of these drinks at my local HEB supermarket
on the one shelf dedicated to relaxation drinks,
which are right next to the 10 shelves of energy drinks.
Each of these go for under $2
and I'll link all of them down below this video.
Today's contestants include mellow mood
from the Marley Beverage Company.
With this one it's reputation sort of precedes it
and it's the one I'm most curious about giving a try.
Then there's Just Chill,
this is their Rio berry for calm and focus.
They have a number of different flavors
and I think they emphasize different things
you can do with your relaxation and focus.
And then there's Zenify stress relief original flavor.
This is the closest to a vitamin drink,
they have quite a few items here
that appear in the nutritional label.
They also make a point of how much L-theanine,
an extract from tea is in this,
so that gives you some of the relaxation and focus
without the caffeine jitters.
All three of these seem to have
pretty good reviews on Amazon.
And in the comments one thing I saw over and over
is people who have anxiety issues really like these drinks,
they say they help them out a lot.
But what will three cans of relaxation do?
I'm about to find out.
Gonna start with the Zenify, the focus and relaxed,
and work my way over to the sleepy one.
Now let me tell you what these two have in common
that's different from this drink.
Zenify's big on vitamins and supplements,
50 calories for this can, so not too much sugar
but the ingredients first is sparkling water,
then fructose, citric acid, flavors, and magnesium.
Now magnesium is a muscle relaxant.
Vitamin C, stevia as a sweetener,
then B3, B5, B6, beta-carotene and B12.
So this one goes big on the B-vitamin supplementation.
But how is it as a drink?
(pop)
(soft fizzing)
Interesting smell, little lemony.
It's pretty good, little hint of ginger ale in it.
This is the one I saw in a review,
someone said it's sort of like Fresca.
Yeah, a little bit like that.
Lots of bubbles and the lemony taste don't make it
seem offhand to be a relaxation drink
but what's inside may do the trick.
Okay, I drank about half a can of Zenify.
While that settles in and absorbs,
let me tell you the route that Just Chill took
to create a relaxation drink.
Just Chill is 70 calories a can,
little bit more sugar in this one.
The first ingredient is water,
second ingredient is fructose, so that's the same.
Next is magnesium, this has 25% of your magnesium
to 10% in this can, this one also has zinc, 15%.
Then there's B-vitamin, lots of Vitamin C,
and they list also the L-theanine
but they call it suntheanine, registered trademark.
So I think they've just made up a name
for that same extract from tea that this one also promotes.
This one has 350 milligrams of that,
this one is 150 milligrams, but it's registered trademark.
So my impression is this goes with the magnesium
and the zinc sort of more affecting your muscles,
where as this goes with the B-vitamins
that I'm not sure exactly where they affect
but maybe directly into your brain.
You can relax the muscles and then as a consequence
have the brain relax as well, I'm supposing.
(pop)
Different color.
(soft fizzing)
Smells berryish.
Very interesting flavor.
I think this would keep my attention longer than this one,
talking about focus and attention.
It's got some interesting flavors in it.
This one was nice but it wasn't really that interesting.
Well before I drink the rest of this,
what effects am I feeling from Zenify?
I don't know, I guess I could be
feeling a little more relaxed.
Then again it's lunchtime and I haven't eaten yet,
so having drank half a can of this
maybe I just filled up my stomach
and it feels a little bit comforting.
But I have not attained a zen state yet,
maybe with half a can of this added, I will.
Okay, I think the relaxation
might be starting to settle in now.
While I'm not in a zen state but I don't feel sleepy either
but I do feel relaxed, it's kind of nice.
Let's see if this one can add some drowsiness.
So this mellow mood can is considered two servings,
which means one can is 100 calories.
And rather than using a tea extract,
the L-theanine from these,
the first ingredient is actually decaffeinated green tea.
Then comes some sugar, then honey,
natural flavor, sodium citrate, citric acid,
then, the more active of the ingredients I think,
camomile flower extract, lemon balm extract,
valerian root extract, hops extract,
and passion flower extract.
So rather than the mineral and vitamin supplementation
that's going on with these drinks to get the effect,
this seems to me to be a green tea with honey
with some added herbs to get the effect.
Let's find out what that effect is.
Says contents may settle, so shake gently,
I don't know how carbonated this is.
(pop)
Peachy color, smells like tea and honey.
Tastes like a nice tea,
there's some other herbal taste in it though
but pretty much it tastes like tea and honey.
Also the carbonation in this one is very light,
these are both more carbonated,
I think this was the most carbonated.
Which at first impression gives you
a more wake up kind of feeling.
I'd like to drink this on ice
with my straw in my Mighty Mug, there we go.
And you can relax because you don't
have to worry about tipping it over.
Well I'm just gonna take a moment here
to enjoy some of this mellowing drink
and watch the squirrels playing out in the yard.
(quiet snoring)
Well I liked all of them, this is really good
to have a green tea and honey with a few extra added things.
This one had an interesting flavor
that made me want to drink more of it.
And this one made me feel like
I was getting a multivitamin in a can.
Now these two are more laboratory created,
at least that's my sense of them,
that they've added these extracts
and different ingredients to give you the effect.
This one just more relies on natural,
the effect of some nice tea and honey
and some other herbal ingredients, all legal,
that are known to help with relaxation
and maybe even to make you drowsy.
I found that these two did help me feel relaxed
after having half a can of each.
I didn't really get that sleepy after drinking this
but maybe after doing the whole can.
So if you want focus, here you go,
if you want to forget it and take a nap, here you go.
You can find out more about all of these
at the link down below this video.
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