Ferrarelle Naturally Sparkling Mineral Water
Little. Yellow. Different.
…or is it Wet. Bubbly. Standard.
I’m not exactly sure.
This was sent to us, and as I’m not a connoisseur of sparkling mineral water, it tastes like every other one that I’ve ever had. This really isn’t our forte, but it seemed decent enough. I don’t know what else to say about this.
- Website
- http://www.ferrarelleusa.com/
- Country
- Italy
- Sweetener
- No Sugar Added
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
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- Ferrarelle Sparkling Water 500ml
Wendy's Iced Tea Strawberry
Come along with me, if you will. Travel with me back in time to an hour ago when I ordered this drink. I says to the lady I say, "I'll have a strawberry iced tea." to which she responds with, "It's unsweetened." and I responded with, "That's even better."
Cut to five minutes later and I'm sitting down and I take my first sip and think to myself, "What the heck just happened to this iced tea?" I take another sip and see what's going on. What they did is take the unsweetened tea and pour an allocated amount of strawberry puree into it. It is actually very good. The strawberry takes a bit out of the tea, if I'm being honest. I enjoy the taste of unsweetened tea so if they cut it down on the amount of puree and let the tea shine through a little bit more, this would absolutely be something I come back to time and time again.
A nice walk back to the office with a little of the ice melted cut down on the sweetness and turned the once good drink into a really good drink. Wendy and your squad of workers, you have done good by me today.
- Website
- http://www.wendys.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Not Listed
- Categories
- Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman 7 hours, 54 minutes ago
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Killer Buzz Energy Drink Livid
Purple stuff. We've all seen the Sunny D commercial so you all know what I’m talking about when I say that. Purple drink is a little more kind to say, as it is drinkable. This energy drink reminds me of purple drink. It has a purple/grape taste that is hard to mistake. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's just nothing to write home about. As far as energy drinks as a whole go, this is definitely in the top 50 percentile.
I still think I would like it more if there was a cartoon bee on the can. But sadly it probably wouldn't be the bee that is in my head with a Rambo headband/armbands, bulging muscles, wounds, etc... Now that I’m typing this out, it sounds like a horrible idea. Don't listen to my can design suggestions Killer Buzz.
- Website
- http://www.killerbuzz.com/
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sucrose
- Categories
- Energy Drink
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Derek Neuland 7 hours, 54 minutes ago
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Pom Coconut
It’s a beautiful day out, so you decide to lay out in the back yard, while listening to a little Air Supply and get your self a tan. Oops, you almost forgot two crucial items before you walked out the door; your tanning oil and a nice refreshing glass of pomegranate juice. As you sit down in your weird plastic tube lawn chair that has existed since the same year you bought that Air Supply cassette, you start lathering up. It’s been so rainy and cloudy lately that you haven’t been able to work on your tan as much as you wanted. You were so excited that you didn’t even notice that a huge glob of your coconut scented tanning oil fell right into your cool refreshing beverage.
There you go. Now you have a vivid image of what my ladyfriend told me this drink tasted like. I can’t argue with her. I had high hopes for this, but unfortunately the coconut in here falls too close to the toasted coconut taste that I despise, which leaves it tasting like your at the beach and you licked your lips after the tanning oil you slathered on your face dripped down a bit. I really wanted this to taste more like classic coconut water, but it wasn’t meant to be. At least it has a great tasting pomegranate base.
- Website
- http://www.pomwonderful.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Stevia Leaf Extract
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 9 hours, 10 minutes ago
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Starbucks Iced Coffee Coffee + Milk
Coffee fans in the unreachable corners of the world rejoice! Now you can turn up your nose at the rest of the world like regular, fancy, city folk in the privacy of your own home. Go ahead. Grab all your computers and books and put them in one room and pretend to work while you sip your coffee and milk Starbucks iced coffee just like if you were in a real Starbucks. Listen to the latest Vampire Weekend out of your laptop speakers too loud while you blog about the people around you and how "lame" they are. While you drink this nicely sweetened, nicely flavored coffee drink, you can pretend you can close your eyes and imagine that you've got something better to do that what you're doing right now. You drink this cafe quality drink and shake your head at all your relatives that come in the door because what they are wearing is so last season.
As soon as the bottle is done, you can take one more coffee scented sigh and return to the life that you were living before that bottle of downtown life came into your possession. Maybe next time the boat drops off supplied to your tiny village they will have another case of them to fight over. In the mean time there is no shortage of coconuts and playing cards. Have fun.
- Website
- http://www.starbucks.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sugar
- Categories
- Coffee
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman 1 day, 5 hours ago
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Gatorade Fit 02 Mango Passion Fruit
Seriously, how many flavors does Gatorade have? Every time I think I know them all I turn around at a store and an unfamiliar face is staring up at me, just taunting. I think there were less than five varieties when I was a kid, and I was okay with that. Then they expanded their line and things got a little lighter, and I thought to myself, well that actually is much better. Now there are so many that I can’t even keep track, and the thing is that unless I drink them side by side, a lot of them taste very similar.
A little research told me that as of now the Fit line is no longer in production, but that it should be back next year, after some reformulating/repackaging. With this line they were trying to ensnare gym rats into their empire. The entire line included a pre-workout protein bar, a fruit based protein drink for while you work out and these low calorie versions of their normal drinks for post gym time. For me that is far too much to worry about. I’ll drink water when I work out, and occasionally a protein drink afterwards. Then again I’m not fanatical about the gym. I’m not trying to get ripped, just to stay in some moderate form of health.
So yeah, this line didn’t quite catch on, but it tastes okay to me. It’s low calorie, but they get there by mixing sucrose and stevia, so it doesn’t have an overly diet taste. The stevia is there a little, but it’s easily ignored. The beverage is clear, which is strange for Gatorade, but I understand they are trying to give the illusion of it being a better alternative to water while working out, and any sort of coloring in a drink would take away from that notion. The flavor is the lightest I’ve ever tasted in a Gatorade flavor. It’s hard to distinguish the mango or passion fruit, since they are normally such prominent flavors. By dialing them back it gives the beverage a general tropical flavor that hints at each, but doesn’t go overboard.
It’s too bad that this line didn’t catch on, well at least these post workout drinks. They make for a decent low calorie beverage that doesn’t taste like poison.
- Website
- http://www.gatorade.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sucrose
- Categories
- Diet, Sports/Dietary Supplement
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 1 day, 9 hours ago
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Everfresh Premier Fuji Apple
If you ask any of us what the hardest thing to review is, we would pretty quickly and without question say "apple juice." I've had good apple juice and bad apple juice but it's all within a fraction of a point. We aim to drink it all but nonetheless; it doesn't make judging it any easier or harder.
I'm no apple connoisseur by any means but I've drunk like twenty different apple juices and they all taste very close to each other. Look, they're all great but, and I'm generalizing here, they're all just apple juice. I'm sorry to those that have really put a lot of effort into creating an organic apple juice but your apple juice is just as good as the guy that is filling his to the brim with good old fashioned arsenic and pig feet.
This tastes like apples. Congratulations. What more do you want from me?
- Website
- http://www.everfreshjuice.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- No Sugar Added
- Categories
- Juice
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman 2 days, 7 hours ago
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Amazon Coconut Water & Green Tea
I’ve spent the past few weeks trouncing around the Amazon collecting green tea. Sure, I could buy it in a store, or even grow it myself in some sort of green house, but if you ask me it never tastes quite right unless it’s procured directly from the source. The thing is that well…I’m sort of lost. Well, let me rephrase that, I was lost, but then I found the river and I have been following it back to the village I will be flying out of. Yancy, my top hat wearing llama, seems to be in good spirits and appears to have no qualms with carrying all the tea I’ve picked. I know from landmarks that we have about a days walk back to the village, so this whole fiasco hasn’t been too big of a deal. My only real problem is that I am running low on the coconut water I brought with me for hydration. Sure, I have plenty of water, but I’ve become accustomed to the refreshment I can only achieve from the essence of the coconut.
I’ve come up with a solution. I am going to ration the coconut water I have and cut it with some green tea. It might not be the same, but at least I’ll get a little quenching without being tempted to just down the rest of my rations. I am weak willed like that. Okay I have the mixture in two bottles now. One I shall drink post haste and the other I will save for the morning. Oh wow, this is ridiculously good. I feel like I’m still getting that special hydration from the coconut, but it mostly has the flavor of the green tea. I mean you can still taste the coconut water in there, but it’s the tea that really shines. I really did put in just enough sugar. It was kind of a lot, but it really works well. I really can’t believe how well this worked! I’m going to do this all the time now, it just means I have less coconut water to bring on my excursions, and that will make Yancy quite pleased. You know what? Screw tomorrow, I’m going to drink the other bottle now, and plod through the night.
- Website
- http://amawaters.com/
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Sugar
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 2 days, 9 hours ago
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San Pellegrino Sparkling Grapefruit
It would be unfair to call this soda, because it really isn't. I could see how someone could mistake it for soda, but in reality it's a sparkling juice; the juice being grapefruit juice in this case. Now me and grapefruit juice have an on-again/off-again type of relationship, I like grapefruit flavored things, but in moderation. I can't really stomach a full glass of the juice, but a little bit here and there or mixed with something I can handle.
Which is why I love this drink. It's only 16% grapefruit juice but in my eyes it's the perfect mixture. It’s just the right amount of sour without destroying my taste buds for weeks. San Pellegrino is good like that, knowing the perfect mix of things for their drinks.
- Website
- http://www.sanpellegrino.com
- Country
- Italy
- Sweetener
- Sugar
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Derek Neuland 2 days, 10 hours ago
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Grins Naturally Flavored Water Citrus
I know that grinning is supposed to be a good thing. It’s supposed to mean that you’re happy, but there always seem something menacing behind it to me. I think that it’s the bearing of the teeth that puts me on edge. It’s like a more aggressive smirk, as if the person doing the grinning is going to just leap out at you and rip our your jugular with those teeth they are so keen on showing off. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want that happening to me. I like my jugular just fine in its current placement.
Now Grins Naturally Flavored Water on the other hand is definitely a good thing. It’s got a bunch of vitamins in it and not too much sugar. Most importantly though is that unlike a lot of beverages in this wheelhouse it has the consistency and feel of actual water (well at least remotely). A lot of these companies call their drinks flavored water, but there is so much sugar and other junk in them that I would never in a million years associate them with H2O. While Grins does have sugar and a handful of other ingredients in it, it’s way lighter than it’s contemporaries, and that is something I can get behind. I’m so sick of the obscene amounts of sugar in drinks these days. I just want nice light drinks, and this works for me.
This flavor is citrus and it’s heavy on the lemon lime side of that grouping, but there are some other fruits at work in there as well. Overall it’s light, and it’s smooth in a way that you can drink the whole bottle without really realizing it, at which point you look at it, and wish that it was larger. It is good that it isn’t though , because let’s face it as a nation we really need to learn portion control.
- Website
- http://www.grinsbev.com
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Crystalline Fructose
- Categories
- Sports/Dietary Supplement, Water
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 2 days, 23 hours ago
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