Snapple has jumped on the flavored water bandwagon with new antioxidant fruit-flavored water featuring tea polyphenols, electrolytes and vitamins. There are 60 calories per serving (120 for the whole bottle) which isn't bad-there is no way I can finish a bottle of anything in one sitting anyway. It is sweetened with sugar (no HFCS!) which I love.
It comes in several interesting flavors. I found the tropical mango (good mango flavor), Grape Pomegranate (eh, I don't like grape juice-wish it was just pomegranate), Raspberry Acerola (acerola is wild crapemyrtle and really yummy) , Strawberry Acai (tasty), Orange Starfruit (I love starfuit anything), and I heard there are Dragonfruit (yum!!) and Agave Melon (love agave) varieties but I haven't seen those two yet. I think they were better tasting and more flavorful than the similar in concept Vitamin water. Each drink promises to either Protect, Restore, Awaken or perhaps most puzzling, Defy.
Anyway, I like them a lot: fruity but not too heavy, sweet but not too sweet and interesting flavors. The first thing from Snapple I might actually seek out.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Snapple Antioxidant Water
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3 comments:
That is not water, that is sugar. Water should not contain sugar. The beauty of water is that it DOES NOT contain sugar, it is pure and simply hydrating, what the body needs, not extra sugar! I don't understand why they call this water? Should we call coke or pepsi Cola Water? I mean really people!!!
Anon, I am fairly sure Snapple isn't reading this. I suggest you contact Snapple directly to air your concerns. My feeling is that despite the misnomer, it is a fruit flavored water and since most of them contain extra sugar, I wasn't surprised to see it in the ingredient list. I'd rather have a little sugar than HFCS but of course, plain water is best.
yes, you and I are smart enough to realize there is sugar in it, but as you can see with the disgustingly high percentage of obesity in the US, not everyone realizes a bottle of "water" will have 120 calories in it. They might as well be drinking a coke.
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