Izze Sparkling Clementine
Price: $1.79
Serving: 12oz., 1 bottle
Servings Per Container: 1
Calories: 135 per serving
Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 1%, 15mg
Protein: 0g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 33g
Fiber: 0%, 0g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 per bottle
Izze says: Clementines, sweet little cousins to the orange, have been used throughout history as both aphrodisiacs and characters in catchy banjo tunes, though rarely at the same time. Then again, nothing quite gets us in the mood like an old miner’s song.
We say: Since Starbucks dropped Jones Soda products in June, Izze is as close as we’re going to get to having a carbonated beverage in the coffee mecca. That’s right, no more Root Beer with cute pictures, no more clear Cream Soda, and no more weird Blue stuff that we never drink but just stare at while trying to decide whether or not the ceasar salad wrap is safe to eat.
Instead, we get Izze, owned by Pepsi (they also bottle those nasty Frappuccinos). Izze is simply fruit juice, soda water, natural colors (beta carotene in this case) and natural flavors (we have no idea what those are, they don’t tell us). Izze’s Sparkling Clementine is also fantastically good-looking, with minimalist decorations on the bottles, terrific colors (thanks, beta carotene!) and a classy font. Because typefaces are really, really important when choosing a beverage.
Izze beverages are just the sort of thing that one sees in Starbucks, but never in real life at our grocery store. Okay, so they might be at your grocery store (if you shop at Whole Foods), but since we haven’t seen them we are pretending that they only exist in the alternate universe known as Starbucks. Izze sparkling beverages shall henceforth be known as Schrodinger’s Soda.
While it isn’t something we’d drink every day (a case of 12 is $17.00 at Whole Foods - yikes!). It is nice for an occasional treat. You know, for when you want to feel like virtuous yuppy.
Filed Under All Natural, Fat Free, Four Stars, High Fructose Corn Syrup Free, Izze, Juice Cocktails, Orange, United States
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Just thought I’d comment that at my local grocery store, HEB, they carry a wide array of Izze products as well as Jones Sodas, but unfortunately not that delicious and cheap Jones energy drink.
Izze beverages are sold at Target (at least, that’s where I’ve bought them over the last few years, though I haven’t bought any recently) and are also offered at Noodles & Company and, IIRC, the Wolfgang Puck Cafe chain.
(I see them pretty much everywhere where I live! The flavors you guys have reviewed so far, Clementine and Blackberry, are the two I like.)
Figured I’d add, they’re also available in big combo packs at BJ’s (12-pack, three flavors: blackberry, clementine, and pomegranate), and four-packs at Publix (located in teh Greenwise section).