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Red Bull pills (Ecstasy / MDMA)

Samples
224
MDMA per pill
34–336 mg
Median
153 mg
Tested
Jan 2022 – Sep 2026
Colours
Pink, blue
Labs
179 countries

What was found in tested Red Bull pills?

Red Bull pill reports can differ in colour, contents and strength. Recorded samples are most often pink (42%), blue (19%) and red (8%). Of the 224 samples, 183 had a measured MDMA content: from 34 mg to 336 mg, with half coming in above 153 mg and one in ten above 217 mg.

Here you can compare independent laboratory results for 224 photographed samples tested between 2022-01-11 and 2026-09-07 and listed in source records under names such as: Red Bull, redbull, red bull. The photos and reports can help you find visually similar results, but they do not prove that an untested pill comes from the same batch.

Appearance cannot identify a tablet, which is why every sample here was tested rather than judged by eye.

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One of the tested samples, both faces.

Red Bull reached Austria in 1987, when Dietrich Mateschitz and Chaleo Yoovidhya adapted a Thai tonic called Krating Daeng, meaning red gaur, into the drink that invented the energy category.

Two charging bulls in front of a sun is among the most reproduced marks in nightlife, and that recognition is most of the reason it keeps turning up in press dies. It is also the logo in this catalogue with the most varied record.

Most classified samples were MDMA, but several contained PMMA, a substance repeatedly linked to deaths in Europe because it comes up slowly and tempts people into taking a second dose, and others held NEP, 2C-B or dimethylpentylone. Pink leads the colours, then red and orange. DrugsPRO currently holds 224 photographed samples under this logo.

Across the 183 with a measured MDMA content, results run from 34 mg to 336 mg, with half coming in above 153 mg. Reagent tests do not identify everything, and PMMA in particular is hard to separate from MDMA by colour alone, so use a drug-checking service where one is available.

Check the pill in your hand with your own reagent test, used according to the kit instructions.

The Red Bull stamp is used on the illegal market for tablets of different composition. The name, the press and the colour are not reliable marks of a particular batch. Even tablets bought in the same place and looking the same can come from different production runs.

Laboratory results show wide differences in dose, purity and adulterants. A tablet sold as ecstasy can carry an unexpectedly high MDMA dose, other stimulants, or substances that were never declared. That is what raises the risk of overheating, circulatory problems, serotonin syndrome and overdose, and it is exactly what a test answers before anyone takes anything.

A reagent test tells you which group of substances a sample belongs to. How much of it is in the tablet is what a purity or quantity test answers, and a full laboratory analysis names every component. Test a small portion, use more than one reagent, and compare the result with recent laboratory alerts.

Where these results come from

This comparison includes 224 samples tested between 2022-01-11 and 2026-09-07. The most frequently detected substances are: MDMA (207), Caffeine (9), Amphetamine (5), PMMA (4).

Laboratory reports come from: (Bern, Biel) Pharmazeutischen Kontrolllabor Bern, SaferParty.ch, Trimbos, checkit.wien, contact-suchthilfe.ch, drogart.org, drogenarbeitz6.at, drugchecking.berlin. Other substances detected in some samples include: Synthesis impurity, 2C-B, NEP, Ketamine, 4-CMC.

Information about the ingredients of Red Bull pills comes from lab and user data. Each result is a warning rather than a guarantee, and no substance is safe by default. Testing the pill in your hand is the part you can control. Get a test kit. Other analyses in the full database.

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No test result can tell you a substance is safe. No substance is 100% safe.This article is published for harm reduction purposes. It does not encourage the use of psychoactive substances and does not replace medical advice.