We�re talking about Nuun Electrolyte Tablets today.
Hey guys what�s up, Taren here from A-Race and today we are hovered over my leftover
stash of Nuun Active Hydration and the Nuun Active Energy. I started out really really
liking the drinks, but unfortunately that love affair has worn off. This is actually
going to be the first not so good review that I�ve done on the channel.
First, some of the things that I like about it however. Nuun is not all bad, frankly it�s
actually a really really good product, just not a great product for me.
THE GOOD
The first thing I like about Nuun is that it�s really easy to use. As you saw it�s
a tablet, it�s not a powder, so you don�t even have to shake the bottle you just have
to drop it into your water and it dissolves instantly, which is awesome. It also comes
in tubes, so you can take that tube and stuff it in a backpack or a jersey pocket so it
travels really easily. All in all it�s one of the most easy electrolyte drinks to use.
The second thing that I like about this is the taste and that was what had be sold originally
on the Nuuns. The Active Hydration has eleven flavors and the Nuun Energy with the caffeine
has three flavors. Pretty much all of them taste like a mild version of the pop that
you would associate it with, so the lemon lime taste like a light Sprit, cherry limeade
this is kind of like a light cherry coke. So the taste of this is going to be a little
more pronounced than say and Osmo or a Skratch, I�ll link to those in the description you
can hear about those products. This is going to taste a little stronger than those but
it�s still light tasting, so it never tastes syrupy like some of those really sugary drinks,
it just gives you a little bit more taste in your mouth which I think is the perfect
amount of taste.
The next thing that I like about Nuun is the price. These are singles but the tubes come
for seven bucks, you get ten in them, so it�s coming in at seventy cents per drink. That�s
pretty reasonable with a lot of the drinks coming in at a dollar, or just over a dollar
per serving.
And Lastly, I do want to mention that the composition of Nuun is really good. You�ve
got about 360 milligrams of sodium, and a hundred milligrams of potassium. That is basically
the perfect ratio of electrolytes that you want to be taking down. And if you need a
little bit of a kick in the ass to get out the door in the morning the Nuun Energy is
actually really good. It�s got forty milligrams of caffeine, that�s about a half a cup of
coffee. So in my experience it doesn�t get you jittery, it just gives you a little bit
of a kick to get up and get going.
THE BAD
The first thing that I dislike about it; I actually find that there�s a fair bit of
sloshing around in my stomach. This didn�t happen all the time, it only happened on a
really tough workout, particularly a track workout where a couple of times in the afternoon
where it was very humid I was taking some Nuun Energy and one time my stomach just absolutely
blew up. Yeah, blew up, it wasn�t pretty. I�m gonna save you the details.
I�m not exactly sure what it is; it could be the fuzziness causing a little bit of burping
in the stomach. It could be that Nuun is almost entirely calorie free, and what I�ve found
is that a little bit of sugar in a drink actually helps to digest the water and absorb the hydration
that you�re taking in. But whatever it is, those couple of times that I really pushed
it on the track it didn�t quite agree with me.
The second thing that I don�t like about about Nuun is also what I do like about Nuun.
I like the taste of that fizziness, but when I�m using it during a really hard workout
and I�m breathing really heavy I don�t want to be burping up Nuun.
That�s what I�m going to say about Nuun. It�s not by any means a bad electrolyte
drink. If you don�t have a delicate stomach it�s not going to be bad for you, it�s
actually a really good product and you might as well give it a try. They�ve got great
tasting stuff. It�s just not the right product for me because it doesn�t work with my sensitive
stomach, which really sucks because I like the taste of it.
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I�m gonna miss you Nuun, you�re very tasty.