(Post theme: we’re not gonna be friends by pj frantz)

Last time: Love Muscle Pineapple Sparkling Protein Water, this time Optimum Nutrition Essential Amin.O. Energy Blueberry Lemonade.

355ml can, spotted in New World - I’ve never seen it anywhere else. I assumed from the shelf placement that it was a New Zealand drink, and I think the can I picked up was made here, but the brand itself turns out to be American, so: oops (the 355ml size probably should have given me pause). Much like the Love Muscle previously, I am very clearly not the intended audience - this is a sort of drink aimed at people who are more athletic than I am - but I was curious.

I could definitely taste both the blueberry and the lemon, which is more than I expected from something this aggressively functional. It’s not sweet, which tracks for a drink purporting to be healthy, but I wasn’t braced for quite how not-sweet. Not terrible, just very much pitched at a different palate than mine.

Wouldn’t have it again unless there was nothing else available. 4.5/10