#1011 Jak Flash

I came across one of the new energy drinks on the market. This one takes an interesting approach, rather than being a giant can of carbonated caffeine and guarana, it’s a little plastic bottle filled with potent fluid. It’s called the Amp Energy Shot. It’s only 2 ounces.
Which goes a long way to solving my biggest problem with energy drinks. I end up using all their energy going over and over to the bathroom.
Rockstar, for example, comes in 16 ounce cans. Which means I go to the can way too many times.
Amp and Rockstar have many of the same exotic foreign energy ingredients—Taurine, Guarana Seed, Ginkgo Biloba and Ginseng. Oh and lets not forget L-Carnetine. I have no idea what it is, but since it has “carne” in it, it must be the energy you get from chili con carne.
There goes another trip to the can.
They have various vitamins too. Amp says it has 300% of your RDA of riboflavin. I really like the name riboflavin. It’s one of the essential B-vitamins that influence our metabolism. I have fond memories of it from my youth when niacin and riboflavin seemed to be on every candied sweet cereal box.
It’s ubiquitous now, and safely so, as you body will only absorb what it needs and then pass the rest in Mountain Dew-colored urine. That’s partly because riboflavin fluoresces under ultraviolet light.
Which explains the looks of amazement in black-lighted disco bar bathrooms when the energy drinks have been pounded down a little too much.
Riboflavin also, unfortunately, breaks down under regular light, so the millions of products it’s added to probably don’t deliver any riboflavinoid benefit after being left out on the kitchen counter. Another way the poor suffer. This time with vitamin un-enriched generic cereal in clear plastic bags.
All the exotic energy components help disguise the main energy boost from energy drinks. Good old caffeine. Amp amps up with 80 milligrams. Rockstar with 240 per 16-ounce can.
But what I really like is the exotic name of my Amp shot. Jakfruit Citrus. Jakfruit. It just sounds so focused and intense. Like Oranges in Stormtrooper boots.
You’ll be highstepping and on the march...
America, ya gotta love it.