Hello AM and welcome to my first review in a couple years! This will be at best a mini-log to compare the new BloodShr3d to the old RAW edition. I'm not particularly cutting right now but want to mitigate some of the poor food choices I will undoubtedly make this holiday season.
I won't go into a great bit of detail on the differences in the formulas because if you're on here then you probably already have a clue as to what the individual ingredients do. But here are the labels for comparison--
Good ol' RAW
The new kid
Since the biggest glaring difference to me was the alpha y, I picked up a bottle of it along with the BloodShr3d Black Magic. I acknowledge there are a couple of other different ingredients, but that was the biggest change for me. I have 2-3 servings of the old formula that I've been holding on to for this comparison. My plan is to use the new formula as is for a couple days, the old formula for a couple, and then back to the new with alpha y.
First impressions
I picked up Bombsicle flavor. It is yellow as a powder and smells strongly of lemon. Once dumped into water, it takes on a nice blue shade.
I used about 12 oz of water and have to say this is more of a tart raspberry lemonade flavor as opposed to bombsicle or rocket pop. Not very sweet at all. I'm a fan of raspberry lemonades but this was borderline too tart for me. No cherry sweetness to balance out the lemon at all. There were also quite a few grains of stuff in the bottom and I had to put some extra water in the glass a couple of times to get everything. The mixability isn't a dealbreaker by any means, but this doesn't dissolve as well as Re1gn. I forget about the mixability of RAW so I'll make that comparison when I use it.
I won't go into a great bit of detail on the differences in the formulas because if you're on here then you probably already have a clue as to what the individual ingredients do. But here are the labels for comparison--
Good ol' RAW
The new kid
Since the biggest glaring difference to me was the alpha y, I picked up a bottle of it along with the BloodShr3d Black Magic. I acknowledge there are a couple of other different ingredients, but that was the biggest change for me. I have 2-3 servings of the old formula that I've been holding on to for this comparison. My plan is to use the new formula as is for a couple days, the old formula for a couple, and then back to the new with alpha y.
First impressions
I picked up Bombsicle flavor. It is yellow as a powder and smells strongly of lemon. Once dumped into water, it takes on a nice blue shade.
I used about 12 oz of water and have to say this is more of a tart raspberry lemonade flavor as opposed to bombsicle or rocket pop. Not very sweet at all. I'm a fan of raspberry lemonades but this was borderline too tart for me. No cherry sweetness to balance out the lemon at all. There were also quite a few grains of stuff in the bottom and I had to put some extra water in the glass a couple of times to get everything. The mixability isn't a dealbreaker by any means, but this doesn't dissolve as well as Re1gn. I forget about the mixability of RAW so I'll make that comparison when I use it.