{"id":127,"date":"2008-09-05T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-09-06T02:32:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:32:59","slug":"japanese-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/japanese-red-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/redbull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/redbull-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Japan&#039;s answer to Red Bull\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/redbull-179x300.jpg 179w, http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/redbull.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a>While I&#8217;m posting odd pictures, here&#8217;s one of a drink I tried a few days ago called Ripobitan D (\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u0192\u009d\u00e3\u0192\u201c\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u0192\u00b3 D). It&#8217;s produced by Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, and comes in a little glass bottle that looks and feels just like a medicine bottle. I bought it from a vending machine in front of my school when I was looking for a quick pick-me-up and wanted to try something new.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I noticed was the flavor&#8217;s similarity to Red Bull. At 100mL, the bottle is considerably smaller than a standard 250mL Red Bull, but it tastes like they used almost the same amount of flavor syrup. I wonder if that&#8217;s to mask the higher concentrations of uppers also present.<\/p>\n<p>The ingredients I can read:<br \/>\n1000mg taurine<br \/>\n5mg each of vitamins B1, B2, and B6<br \/>\n50mg caffeine<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what made me post this is that for about two hours after drinking it, I felt lightheaded and my heart hurt. But I was certainly no longer drowsy, I&#8217;ll tell you that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m posting odd pictures, here&#8217;s one of a drink I tried a few days ago called Ripobitan D (\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u0192\u009d\u00e3\u0192\u201c\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u0192\u00b3 D). It&#8217;s produced by Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, and comes in a little glass bottle that looks and feels just like a medicine bottle. I bought it from a vending machine in front of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,80],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-red-bull","tag-ripobitan-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}