Function Drinks get to the core of the whole functional beverages craze with their bottled drinks that are each “physician designed” to do a particular thing for your body or mind. While I’m sure some of the herbs and natural ingredients have an effect of some sort I find the idea of this overpriced sugar-water being marketed for its medicinal qualities a bit of a stretch.
The beverages themselves range from tasty to weird - including the “Vacation” flavor that includes milk as an ingredient. While the ingredients are all-natural they don’t include any organic ingredients, nor is the packaging particularly green.
Overall, while I enjoyed some of the flavors I have to say Function Drinks are neither green, nor a deal. Here’s how they rated:
Do you agree with our rather harsh review? Let us know in the comments!
7 responses so far ↓
1 Brian // Jan 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Absurd review. As a licensed nutritionist, do some research on the ingredients and the effective amounts that the drinks contain and you will see this isn’t “overpriced sugar water.” That is Vitamin Water’s game. These drinks have made a huge impact on me and my clients and your review is not based on anything deriving from fact. All the information about the efficacy of the ingredients is readily available. I suggest you do some research before your posts.
2 JP // Jan 3, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hi Brian, I appreciate your feedback but in the context of our site which is targeted at helping people save money and the environment at the same time, Function Drinks don’t deliver on either front. It’s good to hear you’ve had success with them but I simply can’t recommend them to our audience.
3 chris k // Jan 4, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I’m not sure how green Function is but I also don’t claim to know anything about any of their manufacturing processes.
What I do know is that I’ve been drinking Function beverages for over a year now and absolutely love them. As far as value is concerned I can pick up an Urban Detox for about the same price as I can pick up a bottle of water. I certainly think they are prices appropriately.
With all due respect, I don’t even see why you would rate this product on this type of blog. Maybe you should stick with CFL bulbs and how they compare to each other.
4 Brian // Jan 4, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Why would you even review a product that doesn’t claim or even pretend to be green and great for the environment?? That is like a ballet expert reviewing a monster truck rally and arguing that is it had no discernible ballet. I think you should do the research on the efficacy of the ingredients before you call it a stretch. As for saving money, it is cheaper than a visit to the doctor. You almost HAVE to recommend them to save your ausience money.
5 Alan // Jan 10, 2008 at 7:33 am
In my town Function sponsored an Earth Day event and Urban Detox is all about urban reforestry…and I just saw a thing in Whole Foods where they’re buying rainforest acres?? To be Green, I recycle all my plastics…
6 Colin // Mar 17, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Also, my friend works for Tree Bank and he asked me about Function Drinks. Here I am researching them, and loving drinking them only to find this???
They’re attached to a project for urban reforestation. And yes, Whole Foods is where I buy them and they are donating $.25(??) per bottle for the Children’s Rainforest.
7 T. Flores // Jul 28, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I think the reviewer is more pretentious than the drinks.
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