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> However, higher amounts of caffeine, such as levels found in energy drinks including energy shots, may increase the risk of high blood pressure and/or irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.

Energy drinks don't have much caffeine in them, way lower than almost any drink at Starbucks and so-on, it's exhausting to see this myth continuing especially when it's websites specialized in Health, I'm not saying energy drinks are healthy, but it's time to stop saying they are "high caffeine, high whatever" because it's not the case, except the ones that are made to be hardcore but those are rare. For the majority of them, they are just a soda, with caffeine.

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> Energy drinks don't have much caffeine in them

I'm just pulling the most prominent ones at my nearest gas station:

* Celsius: 200mg

* Alani Nu: 200mg

* Rockstar: 160mg

* Monster: 160mg

* Reign: 300mg

* Bang: 300mg

* Red Bull: 80mg

* Ghost: 200mg

* C4: 200mg

* NOS: 160mg

A standard soda can is about 35mg caffeine.

I do not think it's a myth to claim that on average, energy drinks have a high amount of caffeine.

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It's not high, as per the same article, drinking 2 of those a day would be fine right? The ones you've listed also are always the big cans (for most) which to be a fair comparison with commercial coffees would also be large jugs.

The comparison isn't versus Soda which are considered not caffeinated by most people but against regular coffees, commercial coffees specifically (as home-made energy drinks are relatively healthy, similar to home made coffees).

Now pull the average Starbucks coffee list, it's likely higher in average.

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https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/565/hot/nutrition https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/1044/iced/nutrition

Pulling even their largest coffee drinks (sampling a few) they all appear to be under 200mg of caffeine (mostly in the 90-150mg range)

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With Fable 5 that did a websearch, specific drinks do have a bit lower content than Energy drinks yes, but most have a higher content, and if we are talking about Redbulls, then virtually every Starbucks drink is higher:

1 Monster = "Big can" (16 oz)

Size-by-Size Comparison ~8–10 oz (Small / Short)

Starbucks Short Pike Place 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters

Starbucks Short Blonde 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters

Starbucks Short Latte/Cappuccino 75 mg ≈ 0.5 Monster

Dunkin’ Small Original 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

McCafé Small Coffee 109 mg ≈ 0.7 Monster

Peet’s Small Brewed 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Monster (for scale) 160 mg = 1.0

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~12 oz (Tall / Medium-small)

Starbucks Tall Blonde 270 mg ≈ 1.7 Monsters

Starbucks Tall Pike Place 260 mg ≈ 1.6 Monsters

Starbucks Tall Cold Brew 155 mg ≈ 1.0 Monster

Starbucks Tall Americano 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Starbucks Tall Latte 75 mg ≈ 0.5 Monster

Dunkin’ Small–Med iced/coffee 150–210 ≈ 0.9–1.3

McCafé Medium Coffee 145 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Costa Medio coffee ~280 mg ≈ 1.75 Monsters

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~16 oz (Grande / Medium)

Starbucks Grande Blonde 360 mg ≈ 2.25 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Pike Place 310 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Cold Brew 205 mg ≈ 1.3 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Nitro Cold Brew 280 mg ≈ 1.75 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Americano 225 mg ≈ 1.4 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Latte 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Dunkin’ Medium Original 210 mg ≈ 1.3 Monsters

Dunkin’ Medium Cold Brew 260 mg ≈ 1.6 Monsters

McCafé Large Coffee 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters

Peet’s Medium Brewed 240–270 ≈ 1.5–1.7

Tim Hortons Large ~270 mg ≈ 1.7 Monsters

Monster 16 oz 160 mg = 1.0

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~20–24 oz (Venti / Large / XL)

Starbucks Venti Blonde (hot 20 oz) 475 mg ≈ 3.0 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Pike Place (20 oz) 410 mg ≈ 2.6 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Cold Brew (24 oz) 310 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Americano (20 oz) 300 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Latte (20 oz) 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Dunkin’ Large Original 300 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Dunkin’ Large Cold Brew 347 mg ≈ 2.2 Monsters

Dunkin’ XL (24 oz) 360 mg ≈ 2.25 Monsters

Costa Massimo 350–400+ ≈ 2.2–2.5

Monster 24 oz 240 mg = 1.5

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