
Methodsīased on the responses from a 32 member college student focus group and a field test, a 19 item survey was used to assess energy drink consumption patterns of 496 randomly surveyed college students attending a state university in the Central Atlantic region of the United States. The purpose of this study was to determine energy drink consumption patterns among college students, prevalence and frequency of energy drink use for six situations, namely for insufficient sleep, to increase energy (in general), while studying, driving long periods of time, drinking with alcohol while partying, and to treat a hangover, and prevalence of adverse side effects and energy drink use dose effects among college energy drink users. Although energy drinks are targeted to young adult consumers, there has been little research regarding energy drink consumption patterns among college students in the United States.

Diet sodas will contain fewer calories, but they have a high amount of artificial sweeteners, flavorings, and colorings.Energy drink consumption has continued to gain in popularity since the 1997 debut of Red Bull, the current leader in the energy drink market. Instead of a can of Fanta fruit-flavored soda, the same number of calories could be consumed as a piece of fruit like a banana, which offers potassium, or an orange, which has lots of vitamin C. Check the nutrition facts of your favorite soft drink to see. This means that for the amounts of energy listed per serving in the calorie chart, there are very few of the nutrients that your body needs to run like a well-oiled machine. Because the common ingredient in soda and soft drinks is often sugar, namely high fructose corn syrup, they are considered to be empty calories. A lot of soft drinks are made from carbonated water, but others like fruit punch are not typically fizzy.

They are non-alcoholic by themselves but can be used to make mixed drinks, such as rum and Coke. Soft drinks such as soda are primarily known for containing a sweetener like sugar along with other flavorings.
