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Emma Gill

Prime drink ranked - we rate every flavour from KSI and Logan Paul

It's the drink everyone has been trying to get their hands on - Prime.

The product from YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul has taken the world by storm, with tweens and teens in particular desperate to get hold of it.

There are lots of flavours to choose from, so having managed to eventually source them - which turned out to be quite the ordeal - our Manchester Family has ranked them all.

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Luke tasted all the flavours of Prime (Manchester Family/MEN)

Despite what some people think, Prime Hydration, which was initially sold exclusively in Asda stores in the UK, is not an energy drink.

Made up of 10% coconut water, BCAA for muscle recovery, B vitamins, electrolytes and antioxidants, it has no added sugar or caffeine and is essentially 'an expensive, watery coconut drink'.

Who better to judge the flavours than my 12-year-old son, clearly sucked in by the craze, which has seen kids spending upwards of £10 on a bottle of the stuff.

Winning flavour - Blue Raspberry (Manchester Family/MEN)

After much consideration, here's his verdict

  1. Blue Raspberry - nice flavour, hint of lemonade, unique taste 9/10
  2. Orange - like weak orange cordial 8/10
  3. Lemon Lime - refreshing, strong taste of lime 8/10
  4. Ice Pop - cherry is the most powerful flavour in this cherry, lime and raspberry drink 7/10
  5. Meta Moon - candy fruit flavour, very sweet 6/10
  6. Strawberry Watermelon - can only taste the strawberry 6/10
  7. Tropical Punch - tastes like cough medicine 4/10
  8. Grape - overpowering flavour, not very nice 2/10
The eight flavours of Prime Hydration (Manchester Family/MEN)

We didn't have Meta Moon for this particular taste test, but it's one we've had previously, so we've been able to include it in the ranking, along with the pink Strawberry Watermelon flavour, which is largely only available in America but we were able to source.

While it proved trickier for him to rate the middle ones, there was no question over what should make the top and bottom of his list.

The Blue Raspberry is clearly a hit with most people who've tasted it. Deliveroo recently did its own ranking where hundreds of Twitter users put the flavour at the top. And it too had the unpopular Grape at the bottom. But while the red bottle 'Tropical Punch' was in second position, my son ranked it seventh, saying it 'tastes like medicine'.

Having tasted them myself, I'd say they're not dissimilar to other flavoured waters - just stronger, particularly the cherry flavour in the Ice Pop and the lime in the Lemon Lime. The Grape tastes nothing like grape to me, it's just awful and deserves its position in our Prime league.

Prime is a product from YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul (Michael Tran/Getty Images)

Of course this craze is about much more than just the taste of a drink. In many cases, the kids aren't even that bothered about the drink itself. They just want to be part of the trend and have even been collecting the empty bottles.

Asda is still getting regular deliveries of the drink, which it sells for £2 a bottle, but demand remains such that customers are still limited to three bottles each.

Spar stores are now also stocking the product sporadically and it's been available as one-off special buys at Aldi and Costco.

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