I'm the type of person who uses caffeine as a drug to stay focused. My friend, who was former military, gave me a pack of these to try. Let me just say that the military money gets results! This was fact acting, small, and cheap. It works out to about $0.25 a cup of coffeeeach gum has 100mg caffeine (5 pieces per packet, 24 packs per box). This destroys any other caffeinated products I've ever triedit beats coffee for price and ease of use. It beats jolt gum cause it has 6x the amount of caffeine jolt does. It beats energy drinks because they are so expensive and loaded with TONS of sugar. These things are extremely portablejust carry in your pocket (they were meant for military!). Great for law enforcement to have in the war bag to stay awake in the field when you are stuck on a call or stakeout. A friend who is in vet school loves these cause they have to stay alert and study so much. To be honest, you don't buy stuff like this for taste. The first minute of these things you just taste the sugar and flavoring, but after that the bitter taste of the caffeine starts to be come apparent. The taste comes out slowly at first, and never completely overpowering, but anyone chewing this just to enjoy gum, and not as a tool to stay awake, would never chose this gum over any other gum in the world for flavor. That being said, the taste isn't terrible. I've had all 5 flavors. The Cinnamon is the worst, and unless you are a fan of big red or gum like that I would avoid it (I don't like Cinnamon flavor). IMO, the Spearmint flavor tastes the best at first (only slightly better than Arctic Mint), but then the caffeine is more noticeable with Spearmint in the end than with Arctic Mint flavor. Overall, if you are going for the best overall flavor experience I chose Arctic Mint. I cannot recommend these enough.
Works within minutes when you need it, like when you start to nod off in a class or ameeting, or when you have to pull an all-nighter -STAY ALERT to the rescue !!
Gotta have caffiene to wake up in the morning, but now I drink a lot less coffee which eliminates all those calories from cream & sugar. Nice.While the caffeine in these works well, the gum itself is not very good. It is so hard I could not cut a piece in half with a sharpened filet knife and a lot of pressure. It does soften when you put it in your mouth, but doesn't turn into anything like a gum until it is time to spit it out---instructions say 5 minutes. Also, the taste is quite weird, tastes more like a chemical than anything else. It also contains wood alcohols which are known to cause stomach griping, and montezuma's revenge. There are better ways to get caffeine, but this could work in an absolute emergency, like driving at night.Great stuff when you're starting to nod off. On the downside, it's much more expensive than an equivalent caffeine pill (or half a pill) like No-Doz.
This Stay Alert gum has sugar but it also has some artificial sweetener so it doesn't have to contain as much sugar as it would.
Jolt gum (spearmint) tastes *much* better than this Stay Alert gum (spearmint), but the Jolt has more sugar and you have to take more pieces (which make a big wad of gum that you have to chew through like a cow) to get the same dose of caffeine. Stay Alert is more convenient because I can take a single piece and get the caffeine more quickly without having to chew and dissolve all of that extra sugar the Jolt has.
I once tried the cinnamon Stay Alert and hated the flavor. I generally don't like peppermint or other mint flavors that are stronger than spearmint, so I haven't tried the other flavor.
BTW I separately ordered Gorilla Gum (spearmint) only to find that it's *exactly* the same product as the Stay Alert gum (spearmint) but in a (very) differently-branded wrapper.pretty good overall. doesn't taste as bad as the cinnamon flavor. good quick alternative to a cup or two of coffee. the flavor lasts surprisingly long.
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