What’s in energy drinks that provides the “kick” that one otherwise doesn’t get from coffee, tea, etc?

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Should mention that I drink only no sugar drinks, so it can’t be that, and a single can of what I have is usually no more than 200MG of caffeine

Edit: Appreciate your responses. Thank you for the explanations and insights

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Answer 1

B vitamins!

Interesting little factoid: the ebola virus was initially thought to affect primarily pregnant women because they’d always go to the missionary field hospitals for vitamin B injections because of the energy boost it gave them. But the needles weren’t being properly cleaned so this caused ebola to spread amongst the patients.