How to Use Energy Pouches: Step by Step

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How to Use Energy Pouches: Step by Step

By Nate · Founder, FlowBlend

How to use energy pouches comes down to one motion. You tuck a single pouch between your lip and gum, you leave it alone while you do whatever you were already doing, and you throw it out when the flavor goes flat.

That's the answer. Where it sits, how long it stays, and the few ways to make a simple thing annoying are the rest of this.

If you already know you want a can, the five flavors are at energy pouches. A can is twenty pouches at $9.95.

What an energy pouch is

An energy pouch is a small fiber pouch that holds caffeine. You park it under your upper lip. Nothing gets brewed, and nothing gets chewed. Flavor and caffeine come through the pouch while it sits there.

STOKED is the one we make. Each pouch is 25 mg of PurCaf, which is caffeine taken from green coffee, sitting next to 50 mg of L-theanine. The can also lists CoQ10 at 20 mg, PQQ at 1 mg, Siberian ginseng at 50 mg, methylfolate at 250 mcg, and vitamin B12 at 100 mcg. A can holds twenty pouches, and none of them contain nicotine. FlowBlend pouches are a nicotine alternative. Where that caffeine came from, green coffee or a lab, is the whole of PurCaf versus synthetic caffeine.

Wintergreen, Coffee, Spearmint, Orange Tang, and Cinnamon share that pouch. The flavor is the part you pick. Manufactured in Kalispell, Montana, from U.S. and imported ingredients.

How to use an energy pouch, step by step

The motion is the same every time. If you've used any other pouch, you already know it. If you haven't, it takes one try.

1. Open the can and take one pouch. One pouch is the serving on the label.
2. Tuck it between your lip and gum. Most people use the upper lip, off to one side, because it stays put while they talk. The lower lip is fine if that's where it sits still for you.
3. Leave it there. Don't chew it, and don't keep working it around with your tongue. A small tingle where it rests is common. If that spot bothers you, slide it over or pull it.
4. Keep it in for about 15 to 30 minutes, or until the flavor goes flat, whichever comes first. Flat flavor is a better signal than staring at a clock. How long energy pouches last separates the minutes in your lip from the caffeine that's still with you after the pouch is out.
5. Take the pouch out and throw it in the trash, and don't swallow it.

How much caffeine is in one pouch, and how many to use

One STOKED pouch is 25 mg of PurCaf, which is the number on the can, and two pouches are 50 mg because you're holding two labels, not a new product. Use one, and when it's out you can decide on another.

Whatever you already drank still counts. The pouch has no idea you had coffee with breakfast. If you're wondering whether 25 mg is enough to notice, will 25 mg of caffeine keep you awake goes further than the label does. The lot paperwork for the can is on our lab testing page.

When to use one

The useful time is any stretch when your hands are already full and you still want caffeine that fits in a pocket. That might be a desk where another mug is just going to go cold, a drive where you're done fishing a bottle out of the cup holder, or a workout where you don't want a bottle in your hand between sets.

That's the same choice caffeine pouches versus energy drinks is about: a drink you have to hold, or a pouch you can forget is there. A pouch still won't stand in for a meal, a nap, or a cold drink you actually wanted.

Picking a STOKED flavor

The pouch inside doesn't change from flavor to flavor. Pick the one you'll actually leave in for half an hour.

Coffee, Spearmint, and Orange Tang are below. Wintergreen and Cinnamon sit on the same shelf. All five are on the energy pouches page.

Common mistakes

Chewing is the classic miss. A pouch is not gum. Once you chew it, the fill is in your mouth instead of staying in the pouch, and the flavor gets harsh in a hurry.

Stacking is the other miss. One pouch carries the 25 mg on the label. Three under the lip at the same time is three of those, all at once. Finish the one you started. The next can wait until your mouth is empty.

The third miss is treating a longer wear like a bigger dose. An extra half hour in the lip doesn't turn 25 mg into 50. Once the taste is gone, you're done with it.

Spit, swallow, or neither

You can swallow your saliva, and you can spit it. People do both, and neither one is a requirement. The pouch itself comes out of your mouth and goes in the trash.

If you want the wider set of nicotine-free pouches, the nicotine-free pouches guide sorts them by what each format actually holds.

Written by Nate, founder of FlowBlend. We make the pouches named on this page. This is not medical advice.