Snapple Antioxidant Water Agave Melon ‘Restore’
Continuing the Snapple Antioxidant Water line, today’s flavor is ‘Agave Melon,’ and it has the ability to ‘Restore.’ I would like to thank Snapple, and other ‘water’ companies for these beverages; they’re offering cheaper, healthier, often better tasting, and less dangerous alternatives to energy drinks. To make it clear, I like a lot of energy drinks, and will continue to be an energy drink consumer, but the body needs to cleanse from all that ’stuff’ sometimes.
Rant over. ‘Agave’ and ‘Melon’ are two separate flavors, because agave isn’t a melon. As most American consumers will be, I’m clueless as to what an agave fruit tastes like; if it’s even a fruit. Some might be familiar with Blue Agave, the main ingredient in tequila, but this doesn’t taste like tequila. The ‘melon?’ Take your pick, I guess. There are only hundreds (thousands?) of different varieties of melon. Let’s try to be a little more specific, Snapple.
Snapple Antioxidant Water Agave Melon does taste pretty good, I’m just suffering from a lack of words to describe the flavor. It was a little stronger than ‘Dragon Fruit,’ and ‘Raspberry Acerola.’ Nowhere close to over powering though. Very refreshing.
With the power to ‘Restore,’ Agave Melon takes on some qualities of a sports drink. The label reads like it is athletes that they’re targeting; specifically touting the electrolyte content. If so, and it works as well as one of the ‘ades,’ it is a very tasty alternative.
140 calories worth of sugar per bottle; that’d be the only knock on the drink. When I think water, I think ‘no-cal,’ and that’s not the case. But, it’s less that a 20 ounce soda, has vitamins, so it can be consumed without too much guilt. I will recommend, at a buck and a half, it’s not a serious investment, so even if you don’t like it you wont be out much. I think the chances of that happening are slim though; good stuff!
–Jeremy Hobbs
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April 5th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I am glad you mentioned the calories in these. I wonder how many people slug these down thinking that they are being super healthy when they are consuming lots of sugar in the process.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:15 am
I am happy that Snapple chose pure sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, aspertame, or saccharin, or sucralose. I mean, to me, the presence of sugar or the presence of calories are only one part of the equation. The other part is what is the cost of artificial sweeteners?