C4 Ripped Pre-Workout Raspberry Lemonade | 192 Grams | Cellucor

C4 Ripped Raspberry Lemonade by Cellucor

Raspberry lemonade as the flavor for your training shaker? That's exactly the idea with C4 Ripped Raspberry Lemonade. It is a pre-workout by Cellucor that you mix with water just before your session. Compared to the classic C4, this Ripped version has a different formula, including L-carnitine and plant extracts. The tub contains 192 grams, enough for 30 servings.

Ripped and Original side by side

If you place the labels of C4 Ripped and C4 Original side by side, you will immediately see a few differences. Ripped contains no creatine and no L-arginine. In their place are L-citrulline, L-carnitine, and L-tyrosine, plus three plant extracts: green coffee bean extract, Capsimax®, and Panax ginseng. The overlap is in the 1600mg CarnoSyn® beta-alanine and the 150mg caffeine per scoop. Handy if you already use creatine separately and do not want to take it twice. This way you choose the pre-workout that best suits what you already use, instead of stacking substances.

The formula of C4 Ripped, substance by substance

Per 6.4-gram scoop, there are eight active substances and four vitamins on the label. The largest item is 1600mg CarnoSyn® beta-alanine. This is followed by 1000mg L-citrulline and 500mg L-carnitine, which is in the form of L-carnitine L-tartrate in the powder. You will also find 500mg L-tyrosine (an amino acid that your body makes itself from phenylalanine), 200mg green coffee bean extract, 50mg Capsimax® cayenne pepper extract, and 50mg root extract of Panax ginseng, also known as Asian ginseng. The vitamins are B6, B12, folic acid, and niacin. Niacin contributes to a normal energy-yielding metabolism. By the way: vitamin B6 contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.

Raspberry Lemonade in your shaker

Raspberry Lemonade combines raspberry with a lemon-like freshness. The pink color comes from beet red, a coloring from red beets. It is sweetened with sucralose, without sugar in the ingredients list, and citric acid provides the lemonade effect. Mix one scoop with 175ml of water. You taste very little of the cayenne pepper extract because it is encapsulated in a layer.

150mg caffeine per scoop, this is how you calculate it

The label states 150mg caffeine per recommended daily serving of 6.4 grams. A regular cup of filter coffee contains roughly 80 to 100mg, so one scoop is slightly above that. What many people do not know: the caffeine comes from two sources, namely anhydrous caffeine and green coffee bean extract. Together they add up to that 150mg. Anhydrous means that it is added as a dry powder, without moisture. It is chemically the same substance as in coffee or tea. Because the amount per scoop is fixed, you know exactly what you are getting with this pre-workout, as long as you level off the scoop properly. So do not drink any extra coffee or energy drinks on the same day.

In short: a pre-workout with a fresh lemonade flavor and a different formula than the classic C4. The 192-gram tub yields 30 scoops, so about one month if you train every day. If you like the flavor, there is also a blue raspberry variant within the Ripped range.