Talk:Red Bull

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Contents 1 Caffeine levels 2 Image on bottle 3 Does Red Bull Work As Advertised???? 4 Its not Canadian / American red bull 5 Thai version 6 where does the name come from? 7 Effects 8 Image at bottom 9 Only 56 Milligrams of Glucuronolactone? 10 Taurine isn't a protein 11 The share 12 Red bull name, prior use as the name of a drink 13 Japanese version 14 Beer 15 Thai Red Bull 16 Annoyingly Businessy Language 17 "Red Bull Gives You Wings" 18 backpacking? 19 Taurine is Great for Old People 20 Are you people actually reading what you are writing??? 21 Finnish legislation 22 Red Bull Clothing 23 Red vs Blue 24 "Download" imitator 25 My pics of the golden cans 26 Red Bull versus Krating Daeng

[edit] Caffeine levels

This article states correctly that an 8.2oz serving of Red Bull contains about 80mg of caffeine. However, it says that this can be as much caffeine as two cups of coffee, which is false. In an 8oz cup of coffee there is either 115-175 mg of caffeine or 80-135 mg of caffeine, depending on whether it is drip or brewed respectively.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/caffeine-faq/

http://wilstar.com/caffeine.htm

--Wjc146 14:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image on bottle

I doubt that the image shows a canadian red bull bottle. It has thai language all over the place. I bought a simmilar bottle in an asian shop in Vienna.

No, it certainly doesn't look Canadian to me. I noticed that when the image was first added, but I figured, hell, what do I know? Everyking 23:33, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That is what I thought, too. Then, to my surprise, I saw it at a small corner store here in Vancouver. I wouldn't have noticed it if it wasn't for the picture I saw posted here in Wikipedia. 5 March 2005

I got that bottle in Vancouver, BC on a trip I took about 2 years ago. It came from New Amsterdam Cafe or one of the others right next to it. Triddle 17:28, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

But does the stuff work?? and what, really are the health risks?

Taurin is addictive, but as an overdose of Red Bull -- ESPECIALLY on an empty stomach -- causes nausea before the neccessary concentration is reached, you'll probably throw up before you get addicted.

The caffein can probably cause poisoning if you overdose, too.

Generally, I wouldn't recommend drinking it like water. If nothing else, it'll make you feel pretty awful (no, I can't verify this with numbers, I'm talking from personal experience and observations). -- Ashmodai 14:12, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

No, no, no! "Does the stuff work" = does it do what it's advertized to? Let me make this a section:

[edit] Does Red Bull Work As Advertised????

Red Bull advertises with the tagline "Red Bull gives you wings". I'd like to know whether this is true, and, if it isn't, whether the article should reflect this. The article on wings says "A wing is an appendage used for flight by an animal or an apparatus used to create lift in aeronautics" and I think the tagline applies to the "appendage" part. So, is it true? Do you get such an appendage from Red Bull?

  ^ Is this guy serious?

Ahem. Red Bull is an energy drink. The wings are a metaphor for energy (think Mercury, the messanger god).

no. I drink it. I got wings. real fluffy feathery wings. they don't fit well with my regular clothes. I had to cut holes in them for the wings. but I got wings, like a lot of other folks too. we can fly, can you ?

[edit] Its not Canadian / American red bull

It is the thai version of red bull, the original.

- see [1] for pictures of Austrian Red Bull from several countries as well as Thai and Chinese red bull.

• The thai version is non carbonated and also comes in a gold colored can.

-Both images of Red Bull in a brown bottle are Thai. I have duplicates of both (in my energy drink collection) that I picked up in Bangkok. I also have Red Bull in other packaging from Viet Nam and China, none of which appear to be manufactured by the Austrian company. Given that Asia is rife with knock-offs, it's hard to say which was made by what company (particularly because I can't read Thai, and can read very little Chinese). My experience, however, is that the Austrian company always markets their product in the same can, so any other packaging is from a different company (the Canadian stuff is made by the Austrian company btw). Check out www.redbull.com.cn for the Chinese version.

[edit] Thai version

In Singapore, The thai uncarbonated formuala is marketed as Red Bull Classic, in a Gold canned packaging.(Similar to Redbull Kratingdaeng) There is also Red Bull Singapore's Choice which is a low sugar version. Both are manufactured in Thailand by T.C. Pharmaceutical. -Dodo bird 06:51, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Article which touched on the red bull ban

[edit] where does the name come from?

red bull has taurine in it, which was originally discovered in the liver of oxen, and is named after the animal (taurus)... could this be where red bull (or the original thai drink) gets its name from?

The "red bull" name is an english transation of orignal Thai brand "kra-ting-dang". "Kra-ting" means a bull and "dang" means red.

[edit] Effects

While the article says "people who consume the beverage in excess (more than 2-5 250ml cans in a 24-hour period) have been known to express discomfort, such as nausea, stomach pains, gas, and/or sleeplessness.", I've drunk 14 cans of Red Bull in 3 hours, with no noticable effect other than the usual twitchiness that normally comes after a lot of coffee.

Is it possible that any random group of tired overworked truck drivers exhibit nausea, stomach pains and sleepiness when they drink pop, and that it's not necessarily relevant to Red Bull just beacuse that was what they happened to be drinking? Ojw 19:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I suggest you quote results given in abstracts from PubMed (MEDLINE) discussing the effects. Jclerman 23:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image at bottom

Is that image at the bottom really necessary? Perhaps if it were just a picture of Red Bull products it wouldn't seem so out of place, but there are cans of SoBe Adrenaline Rush, Rockstar Cola, Blue Bear, and other drinks not manufactured by the same company. That image would be more appropriate in the Energy drink article, would it not? --Indi^talk 14:04, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Only 56 Milligrams of Glucuronolactone?

It appears that Men's Fitness magazine sent some Red Bull to a lab to be analyzed and found that there were only 56 milligrams of glucuronolactone in a can (rather than 600 mg): http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_9_17/ai_80309795

There was a story in the uk a while ago of a man who was a designated driver and so was drinking red bull throughout the night and had a huge sugar rush and crashed his car killing himself and his freinds. Also i have been told that drinking 6 cans of red bull will give you the same affects as taking speed.If this is true or not is another thing

For what it's worth, I doubt very very seriously that either of these last two "facts" is true, given that Red Bull isn't especially sugary (compared to your average consumable product), nor does it contain anything that could have a "speed-like" effect. --SuperNova |T|C| 22:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taurine isn't a protein

The article states that taurine is "a protein naturally produced by the human body." This is definitely NOT the case. While taurine is naturally produced by many animals, including humans, it is an aminosulfonic acid and not a protein. This confusion may come from the fact that taurine is made by oxidation and decarboxylation of cysteine. Cysteine is an amino acid, one of the building blocks of proteins, but not a protein itself. 24.68.127.167 22:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. I have removed the sentence. --Dodo bird 07:46, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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Sun May 7, 2006 at 20:16 on Nicolas Reyes St. , Manila,Metro Manila,Philippines. Was inside The Araneta Coliseum,Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines and watched Red Bull win 84 pts vs. Talk'n Text 81 pts.

[edit] The share

Hm.. Ok I edited this one back to 51% according to Forbes [2] (father 49% son 2%) But in Economist [3] , the father owned 49% and the remaining 2% is trust.

I'm confused Suredeath 00:37, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Red bull name, prior use as the name of a drink

I was just listening to a short story on the radio which was set some time in the past in (i think) England and it mentioned a drink called red bull (possibly as a kind of alcoholic drink or maybe cocktail, couldn't quite tell from the context). Anyway i have no idea, just thought i should add it here in case anyone else knows anything or wants to look futher into it. For anyone who cares the story was on the book reading on the 24/05/06 on radio national (ABC radio). Anyways don't think the info is good enough to put in the article yet but a bit of rummaging around might turn something up. The bellman 13:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese version

7-11 of Japan recently (approximately April 2006) started carrying Red Bull. It tastes very similar but it feels like it has a lot less "kick" then the United States version. Looking closely, it looks like taurine has been dropped or replaced by arginine.

[edit] Beer

Red bull's can looks like a beer can.67.188.172.165 22:36, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I am not quite sure where you get that idea since beer cans look like soda cans, which are short and fat compaired to the tall and skinny red bull cans, sure they have the same basic shape but the dimenions make then hard to mistake--66.210.54.83 17:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I see 67.188.172.165's point. 0.5L Beer cans tend be be taller than their normal soda can counterparts, like red bull, although beer cans are of the same width as a say, a coke can. In any case the dimensions of all three are quite different. --Burbster 17:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thai Red Bull

Does Thai Red Bull have speed in it? (12 August 2006)

[edit] Annoyingly Businessy Language

The phrase "big players" doesn't sound like an encyclopedia's writing style.

[edit] "Red Bull Gives You Wings"

In every Red Bull commercial we now hear a voiceover saying something like, "Well, actually, Red Bull...[does this]" or "Don't expect to grow wings and fly...", and I was wondering if Red Bull had some legal problems with the "Gives You Wings" slogan on its own, probably from retarded kids jumping off cliffs after drinking a Red Bull and expecting to fly, or something along that. I haven't heard anything like that but I would naturally assume that might be the case, since the clarification voiceover obviously wasn't in any of the commercials a while ago. Unless they just decided they'd better insert that to prevent future problems. If anyone knows anything about this and it's worthy of mentioning, it would be nice to see something about it on this page. Conquerer 21:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] backpacking?

why does redbull link to the back packing cati? backpacking is not at all brought up in the article, aned the only thing redbull has to tdo with back packing is that it is one of the things you shouldn't drink while back packing

[edit] Taurine is Great for Old People

Taurine is normally made in the liver, in all but infants and in some old people. It is a "conditional" amino acid. In old people that do not make sufficient taurine, their energy levels will be low to extremely low and they may have cardiac rhythm problems (see http://george-eby-research.com/html/taurine.html). Supplementing taurine (up to 10 or more grams a day) will restore energy in those old people to more youthful levels and very greatly improve the quality of their lives, giving them back the energy of their youth. Taurine deficiencies in young people are rare, but if they don't make adequate taurine they will respond to taurine too. Taurine is NOT a stimulant, rather it is also an inhibitory neurotransmitter, involved in protecting the brain's handling of toxins, such as excessive glutamate and relaxation of the brain and heart.

[edit] Are you people actually reading what you are writing???

Under Marketing, the 3rd "paragraph"

Since the initial viral parties, Red Bull's efforts have included sponsoring extreme sport events....and owning two Formula One teams, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso ('Team Red Bull' translated in Italian). The team previously sponsored the Sauber and Arrows Formula One teams the Red Bull Cheever Racing Team in the IRL, and in 2007 will sponsor a Toyota in NASCAR's Nextel Cup, where they are also a personal sponsor to Robby Gordon. Also R....

And then, the VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH!!!!!!!

They have since extended their presence to purchasing and entirely re-branding a number of sports teams. These teams include the Red Bull Racing (previously Jaguar) and Scuderia Toro Rosso (Italian for Red Bull Team) (previously Minardi) Formula One teams.... Red Bull also has sponsored various racing drivers including NASCAR driver Robby Gordon an... Red Bull is sponsoring two new NASCAR teams under 2007; racing under the new Toyota Camry label.

Are you people actually reading the wiki before you edit it, or what?

[edit] Finnish legislation

I LOVE COCK./

[edit] Red Bull Clothing

"METs and sponsored athletes are the only people (technically) allowed to sport the Red Bull logo on their clothing." - I've removed this - it's rubbish! Red Bull Racing sell a whole bunch of merchandise with Red Bull logo on including jackets, caps and shirts which anyone who buys can wear. Alexj2002 09:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Red vs Blue

Someone should write a bit on how Red Bull is constantly bagged in Red vs. Blue -203.45.17.94 04:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Probably not. It was lampooned twice, which isn't that much over the course of four seasons and change. The reference would better belong, if anywhere, somewhere in the Red vs. Blue articles. But there's no real evidence that it's truly a running gag. — TKD::Talk 03:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Download" imitator

I removed this from the "imitators" section

"A drink known as Download is reported to taste exactly like Red Bull."

as the only reference I can find to this drink reports the opposite. [4] --Heycos 23:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My pics of the golden cans

I posted the two pics of the Thai can that's available in Australia. I think it answers some previous queries. The nutritional infomation attached to the can is mandatory under Australian law for manufactured foodstuffs. Htra0497 20:53, 6 December 2006 (AEST)

[edit] Red Bull versus Krating Daeng

The current article doesn't give enough credit to the fact that this is essentially a Thai drink. While it is true that an Austrian-based company is marketing the drink in many countries, it is inaccurate to suggest that this is an 'Austrian carbonated soft drink' that was developed by Dietrich Mateschitz. Here are some of the facts: Krating Daeng has been sold in Thailand since the 1960's; in the late 80's, the rights to market the drink in Europe and the USA were licensed to the Austrian company; the name Red Bull is simply a translation of the original name, Krating Daeng; the Red Bull logo is the same as the Krating Daeng logo; the recipe is almost the same (the Thai version is sweeter); in Thailand and other parts of Asia (and - it seems - in Australia) the original version of the drink continues to be marketed by T.C. Pharmaceutical Industries Co [5]); and most of the pictures shown in the wikipedia article are of Krating Daeng, not Red Bull! I suggest some editing is needed to create a more balanced article. APB-CMX 14:33, 9 December 2006 (UTC)