Reviews

The Dr Pepper Snapple Group recently announced that it was expanding their “Ten” (as in ten calories) line of low calorie sodas into some of the other franchise brands. Today, we’re taking a look at 7UP Ten. While the flavor is quite good (citrus and artificial sweeteners pair well together it seems), this product seems like something that will result in cannibalization rather it bringing new consumers to the brand.

It has been a while since we took a look at CodeBlue and a lot has changed for the product. What used to be a single SKU carbonated beverage is now a four flavor non-carbonated line, with the function (recovery) about the only holdover from the original product. Visually, it feels like a much more complete product, while variety of flavor is something that never seems to hurt either.

ARMA Energy SNX, whose primary line of business is creating energy enhanced nuts (the company is owned by nut processor John B. Sanfilippo & Son), has recently moved into a more familiar medium of delivering energy: liquid. Their first offering, which is simply labeled “ARMA Energy”, is a very nice product that has a clean and polished look.

GoodBelly’s Coconut Water, which is the only probiotic enhanced coconut water on the market, was actually launched last year at Expo West. However, the product was only recently ported to an 8 ounce PET bottle (it used to be exclusively in a milk carton container).

TheBU Kombucha is a recently launched line of kombucha that is produced in Hawaii. Their goal is to create something that helps kombucha make its way to the mainstream. How are they going to do this? It starts with the product having an enjoyable flavor, while they’ve also worked hard to get the level of carbonation consistently to what they see as the proper level.

Sparkling ICE recently added two new flavors: Lemonade & Coconut Pineapple.  Like the rest of their flavors, the two newest additions are enhanced with natural flavors, vitamins, and antioxidants.  The products are priced at $1.29 at retail and contain zero calories (they are sweetened with Splenda), zero carbs, and zero sodium.…

Blue Print Cleanse is a line of juices that are designed to be part of their proprietary nutritional cleanse system (which is offered in several levels of intensity). Putting the cleanse aspect of this product aside, Blue Print’s unpasteurized products continue to amaze us, with two of their most recent products providing some of the most unique and enjoyable flavor that we’ve ever experienced from a ready to drink product.…