New Gatorade Mashups! Our Honest Review

Gatorade is here to answer the question we’ve all been afraid to ask: What if you mix TWO Gatorades in ONE bottle? Sure enough, two “new” Gatorade flavors are hitting shelves now: Cool Blue + Fruit Punch and Lemon Lime + Orange. While this groundbreaking work hasn’t yet been awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, I’m sure it’s just lost in the mail. Let’s find out whether these familiar Gatorades can Voltron themselves into a flavor greater than their parts.

New Gatorade Flavor!

Gatorade Mashups Cool Blue + Fruit Punch Thirst Quencher

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Pros: This new Gatorade flavor tastes like a blue fruit punch, which means it is living up to all the expectations I cannot quantify in words.

Cons: Do I know exactly what a “blue fruit punch” tastes like? No! Gatorade Cool Blue doesn’t have a specific flavor—it’s labeled as a temperature and a color. Gatorade’s take on Fruit Punch is more familiar, but it’s just as vague in terms of concrete flavor notes. I think the novelty of combining two flavors would be a little more impressive if we actually knew what those flavors really were in the first place.

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Rating:

7/10

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New Gatorade Flavor!

Gatorade Mashups Lemon Lime + Orange Thirst Quencher

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Pros: This new Gatorade is a very solid blend of citrus flavors. It reminds me of Ski, the very underrated orange-lemon soda that I only ever find at Buc-ee’s. I’d pick this flavor over the standard Lemon Lime or Orange Gatorades any day of the week.

Cons: That said, I’m still picking one standard Gatorade flavor over this mashup any day of the year: Gatorade Glacier Cherry is the best Gatorade ever made; feel free to argue with that in the comments.

Credit: Liv Averett / Walmart

Rating:

8/10

Sporks

What’s next for Gatorade?

Recently, Gatorade has been following in the Coca-Cola Creations tradition of “let’s come up with a cool name/label design and figure out the flavor afterwards.” I’ve got a couple bottles of the brand new “Summer Blaze” and “Electric Flash” that I might be reviewing here on Sporked next month. That said, Gatorade is also releasing at least one more flavor combination in the Mashups line before the end of the year: Glacier Freeze and previously-stated GOAT Glacier Cherry. You better believe I’ll be reviewing that Mashup when I get my hands on it.

Where can I find these new Gatorade flavors for myself?

The first two Gatorade Mashups should be available wherever large varieties of Gatorades are sold. At this time, there aren’t any plans to release this in the classic mini-bottle variety 18-pack, but it feels like an obvious choice once the third Mashup flavor comes out.