Caffeine concentration in energy drinks available on the Ugandan market (a review).

Abstract

The consumption of energy drinks increasingly becoming a world’s threat owing to the different energy drinks being introduced on market daily. Most of these drinks lack the UNBS Stamp and therefore lack legal permission to be on market. The review carried out on caffeine concentration in four different energy drinks available on Ugandan market indicated that out of the four energy drinks only energy drink E1 qualifies to be marketed in Uganda. Table 3 showed that energy drink E3 contained the highest concentration of caffeine per 100 mL. According to the volumes of most energy drinks available on Ugandan market it indicates that in about 250 mL of a given drink, an individual consumes about 750 mg per intake. The caffeine in E3 ranges from 290.87 to 301.37 in 100 mL being the one with the highest concentration, followed by E4 ranging between 110.49 – 113.25, and E2 ranging between 100.97 - 115.47 and E1 with the lowest caffeine concentration ranging from 95.29 to 108.19 per 100 mL of energy drink.