CBum Essential Pre: Mystery Flavor Revealed to Be Citrus Grapefruit!

RAW is a brand on the warpath. After an astonishingly good 2023 where they won Brand of the Year in PricePlow’s 2023 Supplement Industry Awards, Chris Bumstead’s brand has carried the momentum through to 2024. In particular, the release of RAW Fuel – a formula built with professional endurance athletes in mind – showcased RAW’s endeavors to conquer more territory.

While conquering is serious business, RAW hasn’t forgotten the little things, such as the impact of flavors. Flavors, after all, can be the deciding factor between one-and-done consumers and customers for life. Late last year, they announced a Mystery flavor of RAW’s CBum Essential Pre-Workout, and now it’s been revealed:

The Mystery flavor of Raw Nutrition’s stripped down pre-workout formula, CBum Essential Pre-Workout has been revealed to be Citrus Grapefruit, and it’s now available

Mystery No More: CBum Essential Pre’s Citrus Grapefruit Flavor!

CBum’s Essential Pre is a streamlined pre-workout with fewer frills than Thavage Pre-Workout, coming in at a low cost. It has all of the ingredients athletes love for hammering through a brutal workout: citrulline, beta alanine, tyrosine, taurine, and caffeine, and salt. That’s it. There’s a certain beauty to simplicity.

And now we know what the Mystery flavor is: Citrus Grapefruit. Just like the formula itself, the flavor is clean and simple. It’s bright, refreshing, and hits the spot for these warmer Spring days.

We’re going to dive into a little summary on how RAW Essential Pre works, but first, let’s check PricePlow for good RAW deals, and check out our video review of the new flavor:

RAW Essential Pre Workout Ingredients

Each 13.5g scoop of Essential Pre contains the following ingredients:

• L-citrulline (4000mg):a conditionally essential amino acid favored in the supplement industry for boosting nitric oxide (NO) levels, enhances cardiovascular efficiency and athletic performance due to its superior absorption compared to arginine. By increasing NO, citrulline improves circulation, lowers heart rate, and facilitates more efficient nutrient delivery, leading to improved athletic performance, reduced muscle soreness, faster recovery, and benefits such as increased power output, endurance, growth hormone secretion, and muscle protein synthesis.
• Beta Alanine (3200mg): an ergogenic aid found in many pre-workout formulas, increases athletic performance by combining with L-histidine to produce carnosine, which helps in removing lactic acid and enhancing endurance. Due to its superior oral bioavailability compared to carnosine itself, supplementing with beta-alanine effectively boosts carnosine production, with studies suggesting that a dose of 3,200 milligrams is most beneficial for exercise of moderate intensity lasting from 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
• L-Tyrosine (2000mg): acts as a precursor to major thyroid hormones which are crucial for athletes facing intense exercise and caloric restriction, and for its role in boosting the production of neurotransmitters like dopamine and adrenaline, enhancing focus, motivation, and fat burning. Additionally, tyrosine is noted for its effectiveness in improving alertness and performance in situations of sleep deprivation, even outperforming caffeine according to studies, making it a versatile supplement for various aspects of physical and cognitive performance.
• Taurine (1000mg): plays a multifaceted role in enhancing physical and mental performance due to its osmolytic properties that improve cellular hydration, thereby boosting endurance, reducing muscle cramps, and supporting better nutrient access and waste removal within cells. Additionally, it acts as a powerful antioxidant and a GABAergic compound, offering neuroprotective benefits, stimulating mitochondrial biogenesis in brain tissue, and aiding in fat burning by promoting the conversion of white adipose tissue to the metabolically active brown adipose tissue, highlighting its comprehensive benefits for both mental clarity and physical health.
• Natural Caffeine (200mg): celebrated not only for its fatigue-fighting capabilities through adenosine inhibition but also for its significant roles in enhancing athletic performance and metabolism. Caffeine stimulates cellular metabolism and increases the body’s caloric consumption, thereby facilitating fat burning and improving physical strength, power output, endurance, and cognitive functions like focus, alertness, and working memory.
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  Himalayan Pink Salt (200mg): replenishes sodium and other electrolytes lost during exercise, supporting efficient muscle contractions and overall performance and recovery without significantly impacting overall sodium intake.

All RAW Essential Pre flavors

Check out our up-to-date list of Essential Pre flavors below:

Simplicity is refreshing

The big selling point around RAW’s Essential Pre is the sheer amount of decision fatigue athletes are faced with when choosing supplements. There are hundreds of brands, thousands of formulas, and countless ingredients mixed and matched in various quantities.

This complexity isn’t always desirable. Sometimes, we don’t want limitless choices. We just want a simple formula that does what it says it will do. Essential Pre meets this criteria to a tee. Each ingredient is well-researched, and is served up in reasonable dosages.

For a daily driver pre-workout, Essential Pre is an excellent choice, in no small part due to RAW’s artful flavoring, which prevents taking it from feeling like a chore after a while.

There’s tons more coming from CBum and the team at Raw, so sign up for our Raw Nutrition news alerts to stay tuned to more. And if you want something else super cool, check out the recently-released Bum Energy Drink’s Root Beer flavor!