Review: Hot Lips Real Root Soda Ginger Ale
Hot Lips, which markets a line of fruit-infused sodas, recently launched its first ginger ale variety. The company’s Real Root Soda Ginger Ale is a blend of sparkling water, organic ginger root from...
View ArticleReview: Caliwater Cactus Water
Caliwater’s Cactus Water is an all-natural beverage that is made with prickly pear cactus (both in concentrate form and extract). The product, which contains 22 percent juice, is sweetened with both...
View ArticleReview: Stumptown Cold Brew Coffee with Milk
Stumptown’s “Cold Brew Coffee with Milk” is, as the name implies, a ready-to-drink blend of its cold brew coffee, rBST-free milk and sugar. This product, which effectively puts Stumptown into both the...
View ArticleReview: Nuwi Quinoa Smoothies
Quinoa was certainly one of the hottest food trends in 2013, however, we’ve seen the grain utilized by only a handful of beverage companies. Nuwi, a new brand based out of Miami, is one such company,...
View ArticleReview: Vim + Vigor Juices
Based in Texas, Vim + Vigor markets a line of high pressure processed juice blends that are made with local and organic produce. Like competing HPP brands, the juices have a high level of flavor and...
View ArticleReview: Vermont TreTap
Vermont TreTap is a unique beverage that uses water harvested from organic maple trees as the base of the product. Combined with organic maple syrup, evaporated cane sugar, cranberry juice concentrate...
View ArticleReview: Ciara’s Kombucha
Ciara’s Kombucha, which comes in 10 varieties, is one of only a few kombucha brands that we’ve encountered that emphasize taste. In this case, the company has go so far as to put “great tasting” on the...
View ArticleReview: Jay Street Coffee
Jay Street Coffee is a new line of ready-to-drink, aseptically-packaged coffee beverages marketed by Japanese tea maker ITO EN. The three-SKU line is made with coffee that is brewed from 100 percent...
View ArticleReview: INGO Mango
The mango variety of INGO Cucumber Water follows in the footsteps of the company’s two other flavors — Lemon and Watermelon — with its zero-calorie and sweetener-free formulation. However, it also...
View ArticleReview: Nature’s Pure Cola
Nature’s Pure Organic Cola is a premium version of one of America’s classic beverages: cola. The beverage is one that has been tried again and again, but very few brands — up against Goliaths like Coke...
View ArticleReview: Xumma Semi Sweet Cola
Xumma Semi Sweet Cola is a product that was designed, as the name clearly states, to be a less sweet cola. And a less sweet cola is exactly what it is, with 80 calories and 21g of sugar per 12 oz....
View ArticleReview: Reel Adrenaline
Attempting to lure in sport fishermen with a catchy-sounding name, Reel Adrenaline is a brand of energy drinks that is based out of Florida. Aside from our guess that the target market is probably...
View ArticleReview: Sipp Lemon Flower
Sipp has done a great job of taking a flavor that’s classic at its core and elevating it with elderflower and tarragon. The resulting mixture is balanced, flavorful, and light in the mouth, with just...
View ArticleReview: REBBL Tonic
REBBL Tonic is a line of organic, herbal tonics that are made with a blend of exotic ingredients, such as cat’s claw bark extract. While we definitely enjoyed the taste of the drinks, it seems like the...
View ArticleReview: Juiceology
Flash-pasteurized and aseptically-filled, Juiceology is a four-SKU line of juice blends that have been blended with whole grain extracts, including oats, barley and brown rice. While the beverages are...
View ArticleReview: Healthy Mama Boost-It-Up
Healthy Mama “Boost-It-Up!” is an all-natural protein drink that was designed for pregnant women and nursing mothers. With a flavor that is much cleaner than other protein drinks out there, this...
View ArticleReview: Tumeric Alive Mineral Green Elixir
Tumeric Alive’s Mineral Green Elixir is a nice riff on green juice, blending its core turmeric base with spirulina, barley grass, chlorella, cardamom and spearmint in a high-pressure processed...
View ArticleReview: Love Grace
Based in New York City, Love Grace produces a line of cold-pressed, HPP organic juices and smoothies. The company has done an excellent job with the formulation of the beverages, often packing a wide...
View ArticleReview: True Nopal Cactus Water
True Nopal Cactus Water is a brand of prickly pear “water” that seeks to position itself alongside coconut water products. Compared with coconut water, it has fewer calories and sugar, however, it also...
View ArticleReview: Califia Farms Protein Almondmilk
Introduced at the recently held Winter Fancy Food Show, Califia Farms’ Protein Almondmilk is one of the company’s more unique offerings, starting with the fact that it contains added milk protein...
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