NRG Potato Chips
This is my very first review of an energy food, and it is an interesting one. Potato chips? Yup. I suppose this will kind of be a ‘two for one’ review; NRG’s as a snack, and NRG’s as an energy enhancing product.
As a chip, they’re just fairly basic spicy potato chips. The heat alone should be enough to get you woke up, and probably make your nose run a little as well. Mine did a full on sprint. They’re of the ‘rippled’ variety of potato chips, always slightly over cooked; all Golden Flake chips are. It seems to be their thing. The heat is added on top of a ‘barbecue’ base flavor; again pretty basic stuff. It’s good, but again, nothing super special. It’s not difficult to tell that flavor originality wasn’t high on the list of priorities.
Now the part you really want to read. The energy enhancement ingredients, and do they work? Yep, they sure do. Especially if you down the whole 3.5 ounce bag (an actual ’serving’ is just 1 ounce). ‘Can you taste the chemicals?’ Amazingly, not one bit. Caffeine is bitter, but the heat and ‘other’ flavorings were powerful enough that there was not a hint of a medicinal aftertaste. Same goes for the taurine and B-vitamins I suppose. Not sure what those chemicals taste like by themselves, but I’m sure they’re not very tasty.
You want numbers? Sorry, I can’t give them to you. Golden Flake is staying mum on how many milligrams the chips have per serving (that should so be illegal), only saying it’s comparable to a cup of coffee. You do however get a confirmed figure of 80% of B6 and 100% of B12. Vitamins in ‘tater chips? What is the world coming to?
Fat and calorie wise, these are all potato chips. 140 calories and 9 grams (3g saturated, 0 trans) per ounce. Not horrible, but could definitely be better. Lunch replacement/pick me up in a pinch, maybe? That’s up to you and your diet allowances.
Availability is limited right now to the south eastern United States, but they’ll ship you a case if you’re interested in purchasing them elsewhere. If you’re nice and contact them, they might even send you a sample. No promises though. Otherwise, expect to pay between $1 and $2 depending on how greedy your chosen retailer is. Eat up!
–Jeremy Hobbs
snacks, energy, potato chips, food, supplements
January 19th, 2008 at 11:48 am
So if I drink a caffeinated pop with the chips, does my head explaode? I wonder if you put vitamins and cafeeine on lard, you could make energy fat?
January 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
No, I drank a Pepsi Max with them. My head is still intact. Can you even buy lard anymore?
January 21st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
That’s the weirdest place to hide vitamins and caffeine ever. I would hide them under a couch cusion, or perhaps under my car seat, but never would I suspect they would go into potato chips.
January 21st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Yep, strange indeed. But whatever works, right?
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