Monster rehab green tea energy

With the 4000 flavors Monster has, it is a challenge to find the good ones from the not so good.  In the case of these Rehabs however, it seems you can do no wrong.  They look good, taste yummy and have a pleasant kick to them too.  Green tea energy is the last for me to try in their Rehab line, which also includes Lemonade and Rojo Tea.

What I thought was very interesting about this line is that it can be used as a workout supplement to recover - like you would a Gatorade, the can mentions this would make an excellent hangover drink from the night before too.  While I still prefer a v8 or Hot D juice as my recovery drink of choice, there is some goodness to be found in here too.

Packaging:7
Monster Rehab Green Tea starts off right - with a very pretty package in different shades of green to blue messiness.  I am not sure what the background design is supposed to be - sorta like an artist's impasto - but it definitely gets across energy and grunginess without going to the normal cliches. Like the others in the Rehab line, I Love their new design scheme - completely blowing away their stale black packages.

There are the usual monster problems with this too - a complete lack of caffeine content, a lame paragraph that is supposed to explain how cool this drink is, and a bunch of worthless energy info. The big things to notice is that the drink very explicitly states that it is NOT carbonated, so you dont end up drinking and complaining it went flat.

Taste:10
Because the taste is anything but flat. Their green tea does have some green tea flavor, but that is tertiary to the juiciness that hits you. This is a delicious mi of pineapples, apples and pear juices, of course with enough citric acid and sucraloe to really get those taste buds going earthy. I really enjoyed this flavor - more than ny of the others in the line - and that is saying something too.

I loved the rojo flavor so much, I thought there would be no way to come close - but this gets right up there.  Depending on your preference between black and green teas the Rehab tea line is one of the tastiest drinks you can find in your convenience store shelf.

Buzz:9
The buzz to be found in a Monster is completely dependent on who you are as a person.  I have never gotten an actual caffeine buzz from  Monster - but it has helped me wake up on many a morning.  If you are the ind of person who drinks a double espresso or a large coffee, then you might not see a whole lot o fireworks if you are just downing a can for the energy.  However, Rehab does have is a great mix of antioxidants and recovery ingredients to get you moving again after a hard night - or  good workout.

This almost looks like a  Rockstar in the ingredients list - with milk thistle, L-carnitine, acai extract, quercetin,goji berry extract, and mangosteen extract. They even throw in coconut water for some inexplicable reason. But the real reason this works is because of the magnesium, sodium and potassium they have in here, enough to quench you after a hard night of partying. There is all the usual gang of energy ingredients in here as well, like inositol, glucuronolactone, .ginseng and Vitamin B in abundance.

Recovery-wise, this did OK after a good sweaty exercise.  Like Gatorade, the feeling you get from drinking it when you dont need the recovery power is minimal.  The real joy of a workout drink is how fast and complete these drinks can do after a grueling couple hours of physical activity.  Monster Rehab does a great job of getting you back on your feet.