Abstract
This study was carried out to determine the contribution of eight commonly consumed energy drinks to energy
intake of youths in Yola and the associated health risk factors. Eight brands of non-alcoholic energy drinks were
analyzed for some physicochemical properties (pH, turbidity, conductivity and total dissolved Solids), essential
and heavy metals contents. The results of physicochemical properties ranged between 2.89±0.00 to 3.14±0.00,
3.12±1.44 to 1024±2.82, 156±0.70 to 834.75±8.83 and 0.14±110 for pH, conductivity, total dissolve solid, and
turbidity, respectively. pH of the energy drinks were within the acidic range but conductivity, total dissolved solid
and turbidity were within the recommended limit set by world health organization for energy drinks. Heavy metals
determine in energy drinks were copper, iron, manganese, lead and zinc. The result reveals that the concentration
of zinc, iron, copper, manganese and lead were within the recommended permissible limit set by world health
organization, food and agricultural organization, standard organization of Nigeria etc. The essential elements
determined in energy drinks were calcium and potassium. The result reveal that the calcium concentration was low
compared to the standard set by food and agricultural organization while the concentration of potassium in sample
last shoot was high, about 937.00 mg/L which are higher than the recommended limit.
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