Purity.Organic – Tropical Bliss Review
Ahoy there, all ye sailors drowning in a sea of high fructose corn syrup! This is Better Libations, the little tugboat that’s going to save your sticky hides. Every week we bring you drinks that don’t contain HFCS, artificial sweeteners, and diabetes-inducing amounts of sugar. Or as we like to call them, drinks that probably won’t kill you(tm). Now buckle up for this week’s entry from purity.Organic, purveyor of organic juice drinks squeezed straight from the farmer’s market.
Fragrance: Today’s flavor is Tropical Bliss, and tropically blissful it doth smell. You can tell without looking at the ingredient list that pineapple plays a major role in this drink, backed up by hints of kiwi, grape, and mango.
Flavor: Guh! For some reason, this taste threw me for a loop at first – you do indeed get the pineapple juice flavor coming out strong at first, but it is tempered by the white grape and kiwi in a way that I didn’t expect. It still tastes “tropical”, but it has a mellow finish that is not usually found in drinks like this.
After several more sips and lengthy contemplation, I have decided that I like this juice, but that initial grape/kiwi/pineapple combo still catches me in an odd way. It’s hard to explain – it’s like you’re anticipating a tangy citrus rush, and you start to feel it on the tip of your tongue, but then the middle notes are surprisingly alkaline. All in all, though, it’s a solid drink, with 36% fruit juice and some organic cane juice as the sweeteners. It contains less sugar than just about any 100% juice, so this could be a good alternative.
A lot of people consider juice to be healthier than soda, but in terms of sugar content, most of the time juice blows soda away! Try 40 grams per 8-ounce serving, as is the case with many grape juices. (That said, don’t think you’re being healthy by downing Coca-Cola instead of juice!) So in my humble opinion, it is best to go with fruit-juice-sweetened drinks like these which aren’t 100%, but still use a significant amount of real juice. This one clocks in at 23 grams of sugar per 8 ounce serving, which is a little high for my taste, but again, it’s no 40 grams per serving!
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 – for a real organic juice drink with good flavor and reasonable sugar content. Drink this instead of 100% O.J. in the morning.
-Danithius-
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