Review: POM Wonderful POMx Pomegranate Blackberry Tea

Nov 16

Review: POM Wonderful POMx Pomegranate Blackberry Tea

Laura’s Teaview Snapshot

"The flavor profile comes across more of that of a juice than a tea blend. It does have a nice blackberry flavor and it mixes well with the pomegranate juice."

Laura’s Teaview:	7.5/10
Other Teaviews:	Jenn gave it 7.5/10, Dan gave it 6.0/10
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"Extracted from California-grown Wonderful variety pomegranates, POMx has more antioxidant potency than red wine, green tea, grape and acai extracts. In fact, 15 published scientific studies on POMx have documented its antioxidant superiority as well as its promising health benefits." ---POM Wonderful website.

I want to start my review by thanking POM Wonderful for sending these wonderful POMx tea blends to me for review. Obviously, tea is one my passions, but I also happen to love pomegranate juice and I sometimes purchase POM's pomegranate juice blends at my local grocery store. Therefore, some of these blends blends are ones in which I am their target demographic. I say some, and not all, because I am locked into my eating plan and exercise routine and would not purchase a sugary drink. I almost couldn't bring myself to drink this for that reason. Fortunately, a couple of their POMx tea blends are Light versions and much more acceptable in their fructose content. If you are used to purchasing from POM Wonderful, one departure that these ready-to-drink (RTD) blends have is that these come in a plastic bottle rather than their famous recyclable glass.

This POMx Pomegranate Blackberry Tea offering is a marriage of black tea, POM's pomegranate juice, fructose, blackberry juice and citric acid. Oh, and lets not forget the antioxidants! One of my issues with nearly all RTD blends is that they tend to be a bit too sweet for me. This one is also sweet enough that it takes me a few minutes to adjust to the sweetness. I don't want anyone to think, though, that this is more sweet than the average RTD because it is not. Maybe even slightly less so but I am not accustomed to enjoying sugary drinks in recent months, I cannot help but point this out. The flavor profile comes across more of that of a juice than a tea blend. It does have a nice blackberry flavor and it mixes well with the pomegranate juice. The black tea itself was rather overpowered. However, I think it's contribution is that it makes the juice drink less intense.

While this is not my favorite of the POMx offerings, I do like this beverage. I would like it better as a Light version with less calories and sugar. However, I do not feel that it would be fair to rate and give it a score rating because of my issues with calories and sugar content. Therefore, I am just rating the flavor profile, which I happen to like fairly well. I feel this is a solid RTD beverage choice and would rather see those around me sipping on one of these than a soda product. Therefore, I would recommend this blend.

— To purchase POM Wonderful POMx Pomegranate Blackberry Tea, or for more specific information on ingredients or the story behind this particular blend, click here to go directly to the manufacturer's web site.