Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Lemonade

Sainsburys Taste the Difference LemonadePrice: £0.99
Serving: 250ml
Calories: 64 per serving
Fat: trace
Sodium: trace
Protein: 0.1g
Carbohydrates: 14.8g
Fiber: 0.2g
Sugar: 12.8g
Caffeine: 0mg

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Sainsbury’s says: Lemonade made from freshly squeezed lemons. Sharp yet refreshing.

We say: Summer means summer drinks and you don’t get more summery than old fashioned lemonade. Sadly, society has become accustomed to chemical drinks rather than good ‘ole squished lemons. This drink harks back to a finer age when grandma squashed the lemons from her own back garden. One pleasant surprise in these times of complicated ingredients you need a degree to understand is that this lemonade contains only water, freshly squeezed lemon juice, sugar and lemon pulp.

Sainsbury’s lemonade is sweet initially (but not sickly), with the sour finish expected in all good lemonades. It reminded us a bit of the aromatic honey and lemon one would use to treat a cold. Plus, we were pleasantly surprised to find they’d not sieved it, leaving the elixir au natural with bits of lemon pulp. Reaching the bottom of the bottle we experienced a refreshing sour shiver from that pulp sediment. Due to the strong flavour this is not a down in one gulp drink - and savoring rather than gulping is the point of this lemonade. It’s only ‘fizzy’ nature is the slight zing from the fresh lemons, so you’ll need to look elsewhere for something carbonated.

Instead of the laborious squeezing of tons of lemons you’d need for decent lemonade Sainsbury’s bottled product really does reach the spot. And the complete lack of artificial sweeteners ensures that the taste is pure and fresh, not the chemical aftertaste found in other lemonades. Too bad it’s not a very large serving and didn’t refresh our thirst so much as make us want to drink 2.

August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment 
Filed Under United Kingdom, Sainsbury's, Vegan, Lemonade, High Fructose Corn Syrup Free, Juice Cocktails, Four Stars

Honest Ade Cranberry Lemonade

Honest Ade Cranberry LemonadePrice: $1.19 at Whole Foods
Serving: 1/2 bottle, 8 ounces.
Nutrition Information Below for Entire Bottle
Calories: 100
Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 10%, 0mg
Protein: 0g
Carbohydrates: 8%, 24g
Fiber: 0%, 0g
Sugar: 24g
Calcium: 35%

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Honest Tea says: When the beverage aisle kept handing us lemons, we made lemonade. That’s because we were thirsty, and tired of super-sweet drinks filled with stuff we couldn’t pronounce. Introducing HONEST ADE. Ours tastes fresh-squeezed - like what you get from a summer lemonade stand, but with a kick of cranberry. It’s pure organic bliss - must a tad sweet so it gets your taste buds doing the mambo without going into sugar shock. All that’s missing is one of those colorful paper drink umbrellas. Real fruit. Real flavor. Honest.

We say: Considering the wonderful tart-sour combination created by cranberry and lemon, this drink should make you pucker up and say Hello! Too bad that it can’t deliver on the promises that the label makes. Honest Tea took a great concept and watered it down to the point of pointlessness. Plus, this thing is less than 1% juice. Seth and Barry, the owners of Honest Tea must have shunted their ethics to the side when they claimed “Honest Ade, our line of refreshing thirst quenchers, have twice the fresh-squeezed taste of those super-sweet drinks.”

We don’t want something super-sweet, but does that preclude a little tartness and flavor? There’s no good reason to drink this bland, over-organic-cane-sugared concoction unless you’re allergic to clear water and need something with a little carrot-extract-created color.

Should a beverage with the word ‘cranberry’ in the name need carrot extract for coloring? We think not.

August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment 
Filed Under No Genetically Modified Organisms, Gluten Free, Cranberry, Lemonade, Honest Tea, Organic, Juice Cocktails, One Star

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