Prime Hydration class action overview:
- Who: Plaintiff Bryant Preudhomme filed a class action lawsuit against Prime Hydration LLC.
- Why: Preudhomme claims that Prime Energy Drinks have higher than advertised caffeine.
- Where: The Prime energy drink lawsuit was filed in federal court in New York.
A consumer filed a class action lawsuit claiming that Prime Hydration Energy Drinks have higher caffeine levels than advertised.
Plaintiff Bryant Preudhomme’s class action, filed in April in New York federal court, claims that Prime Hydration practices false and deceptive advertising.
YouTube personalities Logan Paul and KSI created the Prime Hydration brand and began selling drinks in 2022 by pushing the drinks to their 140 million combined YouTube followers.
The brand then began selling Prime Hydration Energy Drinks a year later while using their accounts to begin “driving demand for the products, particularly among school-age children and teenage boys,” the Prime Hydration caffeine lawsuit says.
Caffeine has no place in diets of children, adolescents, CDC says
Independent testing has shown that Prime Hydration Energy Drinks have “substantially more than 200mg of caffeine,” the Prime Energy class action says. Monster and Red Bull contain between 86 and 111 mg of caffeine in each can.
Some schools have even banned the energy drinks due to their elevated caffeine content, according to the lawsuit.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says there is “no established safe limit for caffeine in young children.”
“Side effects for kids consuming caffeine could include rapid or irregular heartbeats, headaches, seizures, shaking, stomach upset and adverse emotional effects on mental health” the Prime Hydration caffeine lawsuit says.
According to the CDC, 1,499 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years went to the emergency room for an energy drink related emergency in 2011.
Have you ever purchased Prime Energy drinks for their advertised caffeine content? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiff is represented by Philip J. Furia and Jason P. Sultzer of Sultzer & Lipari PLLC and Paul J. Doolittle of Poulin Willey Anastopoulo LLC.
The Prime energy drink lawsuit is Preudhomme v. Prime Hydration LLC, Case No. 1:24-cv-03568, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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279 thoughts onPrime Hydration class action alleges energy drinks contain higher-than-advertised amounts of caffeine
I thought it was a healthier energy drink compared to others as stated in their advertising. How wrong I was.
Yes I buy it specifically for the caffeine content and assumed it was healthier bc the ingredients like coconut water and low sugar
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Please add me to this list. I’m still buying this stuff for both my girls. My daughter says it’s good and healthy for them. And now I see this. Like WTH now after spending almost 50.00 on stocking up now that schools out. Now it’s not good or healthy..
I bought cases of this ONLofor our young middle school son through GNC. It was promoted as healthy & even mention coconut as a substitute healthy ingredient. Cases of this fed to our child & yes their behavior 100% changed.
Yes, I had no idea. If I had known, I would have never bought this! I thought it was like Gatorade! No wonder my sons stomach was upset!
I absolutely believe this claim
because I was “bouncing” around way after my shifts were over..
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I’ve been purchasing these for years and I would not have had I known there was that much caffeine in them.
Please add our three children. Our three children drank alot of these Prime drinks for a long time!! We searched high and low to find these wherever we could …when they were in such high demand! We spent an outrageous amount of money on these drinks in the past years thinking they were safe and had hardly any caffeine!