Fructose (46 reviews)
Mix 1 All Natural Nutritional Shake Chocolate
I like good chocolate milk. Who doesn't? It's chocolate milk. It's kid stuff that just follows you through the years that wonderfully never leaves. You reach adulthood and then you realize there is a world of different products out there including the beloved chocolate milk. Some of them are good and some of them are bad and some of them are the same products that have been out for twenty years that are just fine as they are. This falls into the "bad" category. It's a "natural chocolate shake" but it is more like a protein drink that tastes like a diet protein drink because it's filled with an array of different sweeteners that just makes it feel like chalk and low grade chocolate. What else is there to say? No thanks. If you're on a diet and can't find any other chocolate milk, fine, go with it, but if you can find even a local gas station chocolate milk, steer towards that. Just don't do it with your car. Buffalo is becoming synonymous with people driving through stores and restaurants.
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Categories
- Milk, Sports/Dietary Supplement
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman on 4/2/2013
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OKF Sac's Peach Drink With Real Pulp
Show me someone who doesn’t like peaches and I will show you a being that is obviously not human. Peaches are glorious. They are juicy and delicious and I just can’t get enough of them. The thing about peaches is though, they should not be chopped up into chunks and left to float in a can of peach juice. They tend to start to break down a bit. Being the consummate professional that I am, that doesn’t bother me one bit, but I feel the texture of these chunks could be a turn off to some people.
I also don’t understand why this can needs to contain things such as citric acid, xanthan gum and white cloudy antifoaming agent. Juice, water, sugar and peaches are all you should ever need/want in a juice like this; well you could even do without the sugar. That being said this juice is fine. It tastes like peach juice and it has a ton of peach chunks. Aliens would be so pissed.
- Website
- http://www.okfcorp.co.kr/
- Country
- Korea
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Categories
- Chunky Drinks, Juice
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 2/10/2013
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Sappe Aloe Vera Apple Flavor
There were two things Johnny Snake Eyes loved in life: his switchblade and his dice. To be fair, he really only pretended to care about his blade to give him a tough appearance. He really just lived for his six sided friends. You could almost always find him in some back alley or subway platform running a game of bones. It was more than a game to him. It was a science. He knew the laws of probability and used it to advantage to always come out on top.
He took his love of the game to new levels. The only ate vegetables if they were diced. He would only take a dare if someone said it was dicey. Most importantly for our reading audience, he always had a bottle of Sappe Aloe Vera drink on him. The reason was that the aloe chunks in it were not only diced, but they were actually the exact size of his beloved shakers. Seriously, the chunks are that big and they are wonderful. His particularly enjoyed the apple variety. When he first picked up a bottle (he won it in a game of cee-lo from a worker in an Asian bodega) he had expected it to have that terrible fake apple taste, that is so specific, but in reality tastes nothing like fruit. Luckily the odds of probability were in his favor, and it did taste more like a real apple. The sugar gave it a little bit of a candied flavor, but it was mostly fruit. For that he was thankful.
Next time he’s in that area, he plans on playing the shop keep again for a different flavor. It may be a while though because the comic book store that sits beside it always has a gaggle of nerds outside that always challenge him with their twenty sided die, and Johnny Snake Eyes just doesn’t roll that way.
- Website
- http://www.sappe.sk/
- Country
- Taiwan
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Categories
- Aloe Vera, Chunky Drinks
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 2/10/2013
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Oishi Green Tea Honey Lemon
On our tour de food, we have gone all around the world without leaving Western New York. We have been trying to not go to the same place (country) trice, especially twice in a row but we did last week. That exotic location? A Vietnamese restaurant in a Puerto Rican part of town. Jay and I fell in love with their bahn mi and we decided to give it a go two weeks in a row. I got the pho this time around and had “order regret” instantly. I like pho and I am no connoisseur, but this was bland. I added quite a bit of hoisen and Sriracha to give it something. In between disappointing bites of a seemingly endless dish, I washed it down with this fantastic treat.
I love honey. My aunt has a beehive in the country and it brought in around one hundred gallons of fresh honey. I use it on sandwiches all the time. Ham, too. Yeah, I know I'm Jewish, but I don't care about it. Ham is wonderful. This drink was chocked full of honey and lemon. Jay hates lemon tea and liked this. That speaks volumes. I have been milking this bottle for three days because it's very good. Sure that place is a mile or two away and I can go whenever I want to and get another but I've got this one and am going to get some length out of it. It's so honey-filled that I'm surprised that it's not thicker, like if you somehow liquefied honey lemon candy and drank that.
I will go back to that Vietnamese restaurant again and again as I have to try their vermicelli and will repeatedly eat their bahn mi. That pho, well that might as well just leave the menu. It's not your strong suit, friends.
- Website
- http://www.oishidrink.com
- Country
- Thailand
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Categories
- Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman on 1/27/2013
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OKF Sac's Pineapple Drink with Real Pulp
With each sip I grow more uncertain as to whether I should review this or not. It’s not the flavor. That is nice and pineappley as it should be. It tastes like it was squeezed right from the fruit, but somehow a lot of the acidity was lost. My concern is that this can has so many chunks of pineapple in it that I no longer know if I can refer to it as a drink. When the ratio of physical fruit to juice is tipped to the fruit side, is it still a drink? Is the juice instead a vehicle to keep the pineapple “fresh?” I like fruit chunks in my drink, but this is just out of control.
- Website
- http://www.okfcorp.co.kr/
- Country
- Korea
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Categories
- Chunky Drinks, Juice
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 1/23/2013
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OKF Sac's Strawberry
You know in the movies where it will show a dog getting hurt and it will say in the credits, "No animals were harmed in the filming of this movie?" I would like to know how many strawberries we just slaughtered in the making of this drink. I think that this drink is nothing more than people trying to stuff an entire one of those clear, plastic containers of strawberries into this tiny, baby can.
This drink is chocked full of strawberries and tastes only like strawberries. For that reason, I can't fathom how they kept the price low. I mean strawberry juice is one thing but poorly pureed strawberry chunks is another. Without exaggeration, there are probably two whole strawberries in this drink at least. It's great. I've got no complaints. Keep 'em coming.
- Website
- http://www.okfcorp.co.kr/
- Country
- Korea
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Categories
- Chunky Drinks, Juice
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman on 12/18/2012
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OKF Sac's Mango Drink with Real Pulp
In the dizzying haze of strobe lights a giant of an old man’s face flashes in and out of the darkness repeating the words, “Something’s wrong.” Even though that horror occurred years ago in a bowling alley, the sight was fresh in my mind as I took a sip of this juice. One of the numerous ingredients in here that are not mango left a wrong flavor to this. As soon as it hits your tongue you are greeted with mango, but nearly instantly some rouge shadow pushes the great fruit out of the way and blocks the doorway to proper flavor. On top of that the pulp in this are little cubes of mango that don’t have a long shelf life floating in juice and other delicacies. The way they squish in your mouth gives the illusion that they are rotting. Knowing that they are not does not help the voyage. SOS, this ship is going down.
- Website
- http://www.okfcorp.co.kr/
- Country
- Korea
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Categories
- Chunky Drinks, Juice
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 11/21/2012
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Way 2 Cool Micro Brewed Ginger Ale
S - Hey man I have an awesome drink for you to try.
L – Oh that’s cool. What is it?
S – You don’t even know man it’s Way 2 Cool.
L – Okay well what is it?
S – No man, the company is called Way 2 Cool. It’s ginger ale.
L – Oh I like ginger ale. Let me have a taste…..There is definitely something off about this ginger ale. Are you sure it’s not about a decade expired?
S – No man, that’s just the barley malt in it.
L – To quote my ex-roommate, “That’s the kind of thing you tell a goddamn man!” Seriously malt beverages can be decent, but it’s not the kind of thing that you sneak up on someone. If you don’t know it’s there the drink just tastes like it’s gone bad.
S – Dude, malt makes everything better….like liquor.
L – Okay, you’re just an idiot, and this drink isn’t very good. It’s most certainly isn’t “Way 2 Cool.” Actually it’s barely passable. I don’t even think I could finish this bottle. I like malt when it’s mixed with apple or pineapple, but it does not mix well with ginger. If it wasn’t for that stupid malt this would have actually probably been a decent ginger ale. It has real ginger in it, plus limejuice and cinnamon. I bet it would have been interesting, and more than likely tasty. Here I sit though trying to make it through this weird malt that is overpowering every other flavor, while somehow slightly tasting like moldy bread. I can’t believe that there is no mention of malt on the label besides the ingredients list. It’s just going to turn off 99% of the people that would buy this. Also dude, why on Earth does this label say “Free Tibet and Taos?” Isn’t that a bit insulting? I mean grouping in human rights activists with a couple of snowboarders that want a town to let them ride there? I’m beginning to think a bunch of suburban hippies started this company, and that makes sense why it tastes like garbage. Those type of hippies ruin everything.
S – But dude! If you drink to the top of the label and put in orange juice it’s a straight-edge brass monkey!
L – Oh my god, you are an idiot. Please never give me another drink. Actually, please never speak to me again. I think I became dumber in this brief conversation.
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 3/12/2012
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Way 2 Cool Micro Brewed Root Beer
This is one of those times that I REALLY wish a company had a working website. The website http://www.way2coolsodas.com is on the side of the bottle but it leads to nothing. I doubt this company is out of business because I found this bottle at a Whole Foods in Santa Fe, NM a few months ago. Since I have no way of contacting anyone from this company, I am going to conduct a fictional interview with their owner.
Who are you?
I'm Lloyd, I live in Santa Fe, NM and I founded Way 2 Cool Sodas.
Why did you name it "Way 2 Cool"
I was sitting in my dorm room one day and I was thinking about how awesome it would be if I made my own soda. I thought to myself that if I actually did it, it would be way too cool. So since I couldn't think of anything more radical than that, it stuck.
Do you realize that "Way 2 Cool" is possible the worst beverage name I have ever seen? Even Kronik is better than that.
No way dude! You just don't get it.
And look at the artwork on the bottle! It looks like someone on an acid trip painted it.
I painted that and I do not admit that I did an eighth of shrooms and smoked a bowl before painting it.
The only way the horrible name and art would be redeemable would be if this root beer was exceptional, but it's not. It's pretty generic tasting root beer. I wouldn't be surprised if you took Safeway brand root beer, poured it into these glass bottles, and called it "micro brewed"
That's like, your opinion man.
There you have it. How this got on the shelves of Whole Foods, I will never know.
- Country
- United States
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Derek Neuland on 2/8/2012
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Clic Sparkling Water Beverage Mango
Before I even begin to think about describing the flavor of this drink I have to mention the packaging. Is it necessary? I don't know, but I can tell you that it is really, really cool, even if it is a bit impractical. It's like someone took a 20oz bottle, but it in half and put the top of a can of pop on top to seal the goodness in. I really don't see any benefits of this, besides looking awesome. The joy of plastic is that it is resealable, which this is not. Also, I don't know how well it would work for stacking the cans. It seems like they would fall over a lot easier with that bottom. Oh well, I'm not a stock boy so it's not my problem. I'll just sit back and admire the strangeness of it.
Now on for the purpose of this site, to let the public know how different beverages taste. I shockingly really enjoyed this. Flavored sparkling water isn't really my forte (I can't stand the seltzer taste), but I guess when you add a bunch of sugar to a carbonated water it technically becomes a pop. This tastes like a very light pop that actually tastes just like mangoes. There is no seltzer flavor in this can at all. My only issue is that by the time you get towards the bottom of the bottle/can (should we embrace "bottan" or "cannle" for it's name?) you get a slight hint of the aspartame that is hiding towards the bottom of the ingredients list. Other than that this is great with about half the sugar of normal soda.
- Website
- http://www.clicfoods.com
- Country
- China
- Sweetener
- Fructose
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 11/30/2011
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