7 Reasons Your Energy Drink Quits On You Right When You Need It

The first sip lands hard. You feel it in your chest before you feel it in your head, and for a while you’re flying through the to-do list. Then the crash begins. Around 3:30 you’re foggy, irritable and reaching for the next one, because the quickest fix for the drop is another jolt.

In a controlled study, people who took caffeine together with L-theanine, an amino acid found in tea leaves, switched between tasks faster and more accurately and were less thrown by distractions.¹ Every Proper Wild packet pairs 100mg of caffeine from green tea with 120mg of L-theanine, for 4 to 6 hours of smooth energy with reduced jitters and a reduced crash at the end.*

Sixteen ounces of cold, fizzy, sweet liquid to get to the caffeine. No time to sip, so it goes down in the car, and the 2PM meeting comes with a bloated stomach and a bathroom hunt by 2:30. All that liquid, and the caffeine was the only part you wanted.

Proper Wild is 4 gummies, 25mg of caffeine each, that you chew in about thirty seconds. The sealed packet keeps in a bag or glovebox with no fridge, and they taste like fruit snacks.

★★★★★ "I like that they have caffeine and L-theanine in them but not a bunch of junk in them like a lot of energy drinks." Ralph, verified buyer

Flip the can over. Some list the caffeine, and others tuck it inside an “energy blend.” The FDA puts energy drinks anywhere from 54mg to 328mg of caffeine per 16 ounces.² That makes every can a guess at the dose, and when it overshoots, you find out at the worst time: shaky hands, a pounding heart, a jaw you didn’t know you were clenching.

Every Proper Wild packet is 100mg, about one cup of coffee, and every gummy is 25mg. If a can has ever left your heart pounding, start with 2 gummies, which is 50mg, and add the other 2 later if you need them. The dose is the same number every time.*

★★★★★ "I can take just 2 for a decent pick me up or all 4 if I really need a boost." Sarah, verified buyer

The second can at 4PM gets you through dinner. Then it’s 11:30, you’re exhausted, and your eyes won’t stay closed. In a sleep-lab study, 400mg of caffeine taken six hours before bed cut more than an hour of measured sleep, and the people who took it didn’t notice they’d lost it.³ You wake up behind, so tomorrow starts with a can at 9 instead of 1. That’s how one can a day turns into three.

Half a Proper Wild packet is 50mg. Take 2 gummies after lunch and 2 later if you need them, and you decide where the day’s caffeine stops. A sealed can doesn’t give you that choice. Nothing replaces sleep, so treat this as a way to stop adding to the problem.*

You can’t crack a can in front of 25 kids, in a client meeting or in someone’s living room on a sales call. So you either stash it, chug it in the car, or go without and fade in the hour that matters most. And an empty can on the desk tells the room how your afternoon is going.

A Proper Wild packet fits in a shirt pocket, and four gummies take about thirty seconds between one meeting and the next. The only trace is a small foil packet.

Proper Wild is sold in more than 50,000 stores nationwide, and verified buyers rate the gummies 4.8 out of 5. The first thing people coming off big cans ask is whether 100mg is enough. One packet is a third of a 300mg can, paired with 120mg of L-theanine, and here’s what former energy-drink people tell us:

★★★★★ "I usually drink an energy drink every morning, 300mg, to get me through my day. With these I’ve been doing 1 pack and it’s doing the same amount of work. Great stuff. And they taste great as well." Eric L., verified buyer

★★★★★ "I worked four 12 hr shifts in a row and was only able to do it because of the gummies! I had stamina and was even-keeled. No up and down mood like with energy drinks." Michelle K., RN, verified buyer

★★★★★ "Before I used Proper Wild I would drink 2 energy drinks a day. I couldn’t be happier with the results!" Kristie M., verified buyer

★★★★★ "They are great to take before a workout, or if you don’t like coffee and want to finally kick your energy drink to the curb." J. Baxter, verified buyer

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You’ve tried the bigger can, the sugar-free can and the second can, so the risk sits with us. Your first order comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, and fewer than 1% of customers use it.

Your first box is two 10-packs: 20 packets, one for every workday afternoon you’d have grabbed a can. Keep one box in the car and one at your desk.