 | "If there's actual tea in here, I'll be darned if I could taste it. But as a fruit drink its better than average."
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Ok, this one I just had to review. If only because its apparently the beverage which doesn’t exist. At least in the eyes of Google. I tried:
+”Ocean Spray” +”Fruited Tea”
Nothing.
+”Ocean Spray” +”White Tea with White Cranberry”
Nothing.
Now, I realize even Google can’t find everything, but its rare these days to consume a product, be somewhat enthused about it, and then be able to find absolutely nothing about it online. Maybe its there and Google can’t see it. Maybe I’ve entered the tea-Twilight Zone and this is somehow leading towards my weird, yet ironically fitting punishment for a life of selfishness.
Anyway, I just had to snap a photo of the thing to prove that it exists. And hey, I might achieve my very first “Google Whack” just by blogging about the darned thing.
This is a “tea” in the same way Sanka is a “coffee”. Which is to say, it really isn’t, but it kinda sorta has a flavor that can fool you into believing it is. But that’s ok, because I actually really enjoyed it. And that’s remarkable because (1) I hate Ocean Spray products and (2) I especially hate cranberry juice. For me to drink a bottle of cranberry juice is newsworthy in and of itself. For me to like it, well, that’s blog-worthy.
The drink is definitely more juice than tea, but the “tea” smoothes out the tartness of the cranberry nicely so that it all goes pretty well together. I encapsulate “tea” in quotes here because tea is acually the 5th ingredient in this drink, and is listed as “White Tea Extract and White Tea Powder.” All this means is that there is barely any “tea” flavor to speak of, though its kinda, sorta there if you really concentrate (haha) hard enough.
I probably liked this more than other juices because instead of being laden with plain old sugar or corn syrup, it uses “Evaporated Cane Juice”. Maybe that’s why it doesn’t have that disgustingly sweet texture to it, the kind that leaves you thirstier after the drink than you were before it.
I also see there’s apparently more “White Grape Juice” in this than there is “White Cranberry Juice”, which is another clue as to why I enjoyed it so much.
All in all, a surprisingly good drink.
If it actually does exist.
Which it very well may not.
Creepy.
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