Why so much pink?

Now I’ve gone on before about my love for the sweet-tartness of pomegranate, and my adoration for tea, so finding a mixture of the two is usually a guaranteed purchase for me.  Xingtea has one, and it’s good, but not great.  Spying this effort by Hansen,I tossed it into the back of the fridge for a couple weeks and forgot about it.  Running low on stockpiled potential reviews, I found it again and decided I should give it a shot, despite my less-than glowing review of their last drink.

Upon cracking the plastic seal and giving it a whiff, I catch the pomegranate escaping the confines of its plastic prison, along with its smaller, weaker inmate, tea.  It smells sweet.  My first mouthful is an oh-my-god-that’s-a-lot-of-sugar experience, and I glance at the bottle.  On the front it claims to be ‘lightly sweetened with cane sugar,’ and on the back it admits to 23 g of the sweet stuff per serving.  That’s nowhere near Coke’s 39 g a serving, but it still is not light.  After the sweetness rapidly fades away like an exceptionally brief love-affair, the real flavors are allowed to show their tastes.  The aftertaste is far more pleasant than the initial sugar rush, but it comes back with every mouthful.

Honest Tea is able to get its pleasant sweetness with only 12-20 g of sugar per serving, so I am curious why others aren’t able to do the same.  This one is obviously too sugary, they could easily lose 5 g a serving and still be plenty sweet.  And I’m also not quite sure what ‘Naturally Selected Ingredients’ are.  Picked by humans and not robots?  Whatever.  This wasn’t bad as flavored teas go, but not going to come out on top in a head-to-head with Honest Tea.

Score: 3 out of 5. Good flavors, but too much sugar almost overpowers them.

– WiseGuise

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