By Bryan Bottarelli Speaking from a personal perspective, I’ve never understood (let alone liked the taste of) the so-called “energy drinks” that you see flooding the market these days.
Loading up a carbonated beverage with sugar and caffeine – and calling it an “energy drink” – shouldn’t be a big breakthrough.
Specifically, two cans of Monster Energy contain 480 milligrams of caffeine, which translates into the caffeine equivalent of 14 12-ounce cans of Coca-Cola!
It’s not hard to get your heart beating out of your chest with those caffeine doses.
In fact, due to some past lawsuits about these extremely high levels, Monster Beverage (Nasdaq: MNST) now …read more