An energy drink was pulled after prescription impotence drugs turned up inside

A&P Creations LLC, based in Clermont, Florida, has recalled X10 Natural Enhancement Supplement, a liquid energy shot sold through Amazon, Walmart.com and the company’s own naturefuel.us storefront, after laboratory testing found it laced with two prescription drugs that never appeared on the label: sildenafil and tadalafil, the active ingredients in Viagra and Cialis. The recall, dated September 14, 2026, covers three lots distributed between December 15, 2024, and June 11, 2026.

Both drugs are approved prescription medicines for erectile dysfunction, but only under a doctor’s supervision, and the real danger shows up when they meet a different prescription entirely. Nitrates, taken by many people for chest pain, can interact with either drug and send blood pressure plunging to dangerous levels. People with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or heart disease — exactly the population most likely to already be on a nitrate — are named directly in the recall notice as facing the greatest risk.

How sildenafil and tadalafil turn a heart medication dangerous

Sildenafil and tadalafil both belong to a class of drugs called phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors, which widen blood vessels to increase blood flow. Nitrates work through a related pathway, and when the two combine the vasodilating effects stack rather than cancel out.

NIH’s MedlinePlus drug reference states that concomitant use of nitrates in any form is contraindicated for anyone taking sildenafil, and instructs doctors to tell patients not to take the drug at all if they are using nitroglycerin, isosorbide dinitrate or isosorbide mononitrate. The same reference also documents reports of heart attack, stroke, irregular heartbeat, bleeding in the brain or lungs, and sudden death among men who took sildenafil for erectile dysfunction, though most of those patients already had underlying heart problems before starting the drug. That risk exists even when someone is knowingly taking a prescribed, measured dose; it is harder to manage entirely when the drug arrives hidden inside a beverage marketed as a natural energy booster.

An FDA warning that missed X10 four months earlier

The FDA first flagged this exact product on May 29, 2026, in a hidden-drug-ingredient notice advising consumers not to purchase or use X10 Natural Enhancement Supplement because of the same undeclared sildenafil and tadalafil. That warning predates the formal recall by roughly three and a half months, and during that stretch the product — a red-and-gold box holding seven lightning bolt-shaped sachets, each containing about 15 milliliters — stayed listed for sale on major retail platforms. According to the recall notice, the affected lots carry the numbers F090824LN16, expiring August 2026; F170325LN19, expiring March 2027; and F300326LN28, expiring March 2028, all sold under UPC 7708075247094. A&P Creations purchased and distributed X10 as a finished product rather than manufacturing or formulating it, and as of the recall’s filing date the company said it had not received any reports of adverse events tied to the affected batches.

Why enhancement products keep hiding real drugs

X10 is only the latest entry in a long-running pattern the FDA tracks under its broader medication health fraud program, which covers products marketed as all-natural dietary supplements or conventional foods that actually contain undeclared prescription drugs, most often aimed at sexual enhancement, weight loss or bodybuilding. The agency does not pre-approve supplements the way it does prescription medicine, so a spiked product can reach store shelves and online carts long before laboratory testing catches it.

That regulatory structure is also why the same product can stay on shelves for so long before a formal recall follows a lab-confirmed finding. The recalled X10 lots were distributed from December 15, 2024, through June 11, 2026 — roughly eighteen months — and the recall itself did not arrive until September 14, 2026, another three months after distribution had already stopped. Enforcement in this category depends on after-the-fact chemical analysis rather than pre-market screening, and that sequence is the gap it leaves behind.

What people who bought X10 should do

Anyone with the recalled X10 Natural Enhancement Supplement should stop using it immediately and destroy or dispose of the product, the recall notice says. Consumers who believe they experienced a reaction linked to the product are encouraged to contact their physician and to file a report through the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting Program, either online or by requesting a paper form to submit by fax.

A&P Creations is directing consumer questions to a company email address rather than a named spokesperson, and nothing in the public record identifies which retailer’s customer complaint, if any, first triggered the laboratory testing that led to May’s warning. What is documented is simpler and more concrete: a product billed as a natural energy drink carried two prescription-strength drugs capable of a life-threatening interaction, and it took the FDA most of a year and a half to say so publicly.

This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.