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Lucozade Energy Original - 500ml imported British grocery product available in Canada

Lucozade Energy Original - 500ml

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$5.99 - $5.99
$5.99
$5.99 - $5.99
$5.99
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Christmas pre-orderExpected to ship late October to early November

Coming home for Christmas

This one is sailing over from the UK right now, packed in with a whole container of British Christmas treats.

Order now and we'll set one aside with your name on it. The moment the container is unloaded in Halifax, we start packing, and the earliest orders go out first.

Got other goodies in your cart? We'll keep the lot together and send it in one parcel, so it all lands on your doorstep at once.

Then watch your inbox: we'll email you the moment it's on its way. That's when Christmas properly starts.
 
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About Lucozade Energy Original

About Lucozade Energy Original

Every British childhood has a sick day with a bottle of Lucozade on the bedside table. You were not ill enough for the doctor, but you were definitely ill enough for this.

Lucozade Energy Original is the one that started it: the fizz, the taste nobody can quite describe, the glow of the label. One sip and you are twelve again, milking a sniffle for all it was worth.

These days it is more likely to turn up at five-a-side, halfway through a long drive, or at three in the afternoon when the day has gone soft. Same bottle, same fizz, same faintly smug feeling when you crack the cap.

Shop more Lucozade in Canada or browse the full range of British drinks available to order online across Canada.

Frequently asked questions about Lucozade Energy Original

Q: Is this the UK Lucozade?

A: It is, the British bottle you remember from the shop fridge back home. We bring it over to Halifax and ship it from within Canada.

Q: How big is the bottle?

A: It is the 500ml bottle with a screw top, the standard grab-it-at-the-till size. Enough to feel better, or at least to feel like you should.

Q: Would it make a good gift for someone who misses home?

A: Better than you would think. Tuck a bottle into a parcel of British bits and watch someone get unreasonably emotional about a fizzy drink.

More about Lucozade Energy Original

In Britain, Lucozade lives in the fridge by the till. Corner shops, petrol stations, the meal deal chiller at lunchtime: it is one of those drinks that is simply always there, until you move four thousand miles away and it is not.

People in Canada search for it because the taste is impossible to explain to anyone who did not grow up with it. You can describe it for ten minutes and still get a blank look. Easier to hand them a bottle and watch.

This is the 500ml screw-top bottle, the grab-and-go size you remember from the shop fridge. It sits happily in the cupboard until you want it, though most people swear it is at its best properly cold, straight from the fridge, opened with a hiss.

It rarely goes in the basket alone. People tend to rebuild the whole British meal deal around it: a bag of crisps, a chocolate bar, a sandwich made at home, and the Lucozade to wash it all down like a weekday in Britain.

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The story of Lucozade Energy Original

By Aaron A.  |  October 13, 2026

The bottle that meant you were poorly

For years, nobody in Britain bought Lucozade because they felt brilliant. You got it because you were off school, tucked up on the sofa, and someone had been to the chemist on your behalf. For decades it came in a glass bottle wrapped in yellow cellophane, sold by pharmacists and carried in by hospital visitors along with the grapes. The old line on the bottle said it plainly: 'Lucozade. Aids recovery.' Open one now and you are nine years old again, with a temperature and the telly on.

Read the full story

It started behind a chemist's counter

The drink was invented in 1927 in Newcastle, where William Walker Hunter had taken over the pharmacy business of William Owen. He called it Glucozade and registered it as a trademark, trading as W. Owen & Son at 151 Barras Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1929 the name lost its G and became Lucozade. In 1938 Hunter sold it to the Beecham Group, who marketed it as Lucozade. Not bad going for something dreamt up in a Newcastle pharmacy.

From sickbed to starting line

In 1982 the bottle stopped saying 'Aids recovery' and started saying 'Replaces lost energy', as the brand moved towards being an energy and sports drink. Same name, new job. Beecham became SmithKline Beecham in 1989, then GlaxoSmithKline in 2000. In September 2013 GlaxoSmithKline sold the Lucozade and Ribena business for £1.35bn to the Japanese company Suntory Beverage & Food. The company names kept changing. The name on the bottle stayed put.

Made in the Forest of Dean

Lucozade is made in England at the Royal Forest Factory in Coleford, Gloucestershire, in the Forest of Dean. The site is run today by Suntory Beverage and Food GB&I, the current producer of Lucozade and Ribena. It is the highest-selling energy drink in Britain and Ireland, and it has also been sold in Africa, Asia and Australasia. So it travels well. Handy, really, because so did you.

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