Imagine I give you several opaque cups and you can’t see the color. If you can successfully identify them all by taste alone, you don’t win anything, just have an old dude telling you he’s pretty impressed.

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    21 hours ago

    Probably not. I only associate them with colors. Red is for health, blue is for mana, green is stamina.

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      19 hours ago

      I think of that milky white one as stamina, ala Diablo 2… frost cherry i think its called.

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        9 hours ago

        Game UI convention seems to have settled on green for stamina. Skyrim, Zelda, Dark Souls, Tunic etc. There’s a YT video examining why mana is blue and the same reasons apply here I think. It’s basic color theory. Red was already taken as the obvious choice for HP since it’s the color of blood. Blue contrasts with red and green stands out from the other two.

        As for Gatorade, the white one gives you frost damage reduction. Same with orange for fire and yellow for lightning.

        There was a flavor of Powerade back in the 90s called jagged ice that was really dark blue. I loved it and wish it were still around. Maybe it gives you underwater breathing.

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    16 hours ago

    Nope. I’ve only drunk two Gatorades, both blue. The first one convinced me I prefer coke, the second one was when I had gastric flu, hadn’t eaten in three days and badly needed to replace some electrolites. I was a rosebush at that point, if my memory is reliable.

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    23 hours ago

    Certain ones, sure. The cucumber lime one is pretty distinctive, for example.

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    23 hours ago

    For a lot of them, yes.

    However: There are some flavours that taste identical but come in different colors. Particularly the various shades of blue. At least 3 of them taste exactly like orange juice.

    Red, white, orange, yellow, purple, and green all taste unique. Fruit punch, cherry, weird af orange, lemonade, grape (white or red depending on how deep the purple is), and granny smith apple.

    I always found it weird that they have blue ones that taste like actual OJ, but the orange gatorade tastes like Tang or something orange flavoured but not actual OJ.

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        18 hours ago

        Oh that reminded me they also have a “blue cherry” flavor which is the same flavor as the white, but it’s blue. I accidentally got both white and blue cherry once, not realizing I got blue cherry (thought it was just the default blue that tastes like OJ) and was annoyed that I just got two of the same thing.

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    23 hours ago

    I’d be confident in the traditional 3 most common, fruit punch red, lemon-lime yellow, and orange.

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    23 hours ago

    I’ve never tasted gatorade, so it’d definitely be a wild stab in the dark. Be intresting to test though!

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    22 hours ago

    I can identify Cool Blue. Despite being blue, it tastes like orange juice. Never heard a good reason why their orange flavour is blue. The actual orange one tastes like orange as well but it’s different.