Food · Red Bull
Red Bull Energy Drink
9002490100070
Weak nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 ml
A weak nutrition box and an ultra-processed recipe. A treat in a bottle, not a weekday pour.
Worse than 10 in 10 packs in Drinks. The swap is on this aisle.
A 330 ml can is about 36 g of sugar — roughly 9 teaspoons. A can a day this week is about 63 teaspoons. Per 100 ml hides that.
This pack is on an ongoing recall
Class I. FDA analysis revealed the presence of undeclared sildenafil
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. A 330 ml can is about 36 g of sugar. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Worse than 10 in 10 packs in Drinks. The swap is on this aisle.
Watch-outs
Extra care in pregnancy
Aspartame
The pack
Sugar, caffeine, taurine, and a stack of sweeteners and acids. Energy drinks are built to be finished fast. The alertness is real; so is the sugar and the habit they train.
How often
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Who it’s for
Adults who already know what they are buying.
Skip if
You are pregnant, under 18, sensitive to caffeine, or looking for hydration.
Pack
250 ml
Origin
Austria / worldwide
A serving
Treat it like a strong coffee plus a dessert, not a sports drink.
- Sugar plus intense sweeteners
- High caffeine
- A long additive list
At a glance
How often
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Nutrition box
Weak
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
6 additives
Planet
Mixed footprint · 52/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Some good signs, some industrial ones. Not the heaviest in the aisle.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
A weak nutrition box and an ultra-processed recipe. A treat in a bottle, not a weekday pour.
Avoid · 24/100 · nutrition weak
- Nutrition quality20/100
- Ingredients44/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate this box. Poor at best — a treat, not a habit.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
Stacked sweeteners cannot be rated Good
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
A weak nutrition box
About 2.8 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml. Nothing in the bottle slows that sugar down — no fibre, no protein. Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Potassium sorbate
-5Common preservative. Rare contact allergy; generally accepted.
Acesulfame K
-14Intense sweetener. Limited long-term data; gut microbiome questions.
Aspartame
-14IARC Group 2B (possibly carcinogenic). Unsafe for PKU. EFSA ADI 40 mg/kg.
Natural flavouring
-5Undisclosed mixture. Usually low toxicological risk, poor transparency.
A long list of extras
-84 additives sit on this pack. One extra is a recipe. Four is a factory pattern.
Stacked intense sweeteners
-10Two or more intense sweeteners in one product is a diet-drink pattern, not a quiet recipe.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 ml
| Energy | 192 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 11 gHigh About 2.8 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml — a can would be a lot more. |
| Saturated fat | 0 gLow |
| Salt | 0.1 gLow Light on salt. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Water, sucrose, glucose, acid (E330), carbon dioxide, taurine, acidity regulator (E331), caffeine, flavourings, inositol, colours, vitamins, sweeteners (E950, E951).
Acesulfame KE950
−14Long-term questions linger. Fine as a rare diet drink, not as a personality.
AspartameE951
−14People with PKU — a rare condition — must avoid it. For everyone else, a sometimes extra, not a health drink.
Extra care in pregnancy · Extra care for children
Sugar
Low concernNot a toxin. A teaspoon is a teaspoon. The issue is how many hide in drinks and breakfast.
Natural flavouring
−5Not a toxin. A sign the recipe needed a perfume. You cannot tell what is inside from the words.
Water
No concernNo concern. The best everyday pour.
Citric acidE330
No concernNo health concern at usual levels.
Potassium sorbateE202
−5Rare contact allergy. Otherwise a quiet extra.
Ascorbic acidE300
No concernA keep. Not a concern at food levels.
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