Reviews

Review: KeVita New Flavors

KeVita, which we first saw at Expo West 2011, has recently added flavors to their line of probiotic enhanced drinks. Both of the flavors are enhanced with pomegranate and one…

Review: Purity Organic Apple Juice

If you watched our recent interview with Dave Minnick, the vice president of sales and marketing for Purity Organic, you heard about how much pride the company takes in the…

Review: Chantea Green Tea & Aloe Vera

While the aloe vera segment is still very small, most people in the industry (including us) think that it’s going to grow pretty fast in the coming years. However, before…

Review: Jet Lag Water and Tea

Jet Lag Beverages have five vitamins, six minerals, and three herbs that were added to specifically give your body what it needs to function properly and relieve jet lag symptoms.…

Review: Grand Ma Ma’s Sweet Tea

Grand Ma Ma’s Sweet Southern Tea is named for former NBA Allstar Larry Johnson, who gained the nickname from a Converse commercial in the 1990’s. Why this is being put…

Review: Naked Mango Peach Coconut Water

Naked Juice’s Coconut Water recently expanded into flavored offerings and today we’re taking a look at their Mango Peach variety. What’s really interesting about this product is its use of…

Review: Fentiman’s Cherry Tree Cola

Like all of Fentiman’s products, Cherry Tree Cola is a premium carbonated soft drink that uses fermented ingredients (in this case, fermented ginger root extract) to create an enjoyable and…

Review: Harvest Bay Coconut Water

One of the more talked about items at Expo East was (surprise surprise), a coconut water. In the case of Harvest Bay, it wasn't the product itself that was talked about, but the brand's owner: Blue Marble Brands (an independent subsidiary of natural foods distribution powerhouse United Natural Foods). Connecting the dots, people in the industry were questioning whether or not this would have negative impact on other coconut water brands that are in the UNFI system. In any event, today we're taking a look at the product -- and it's a pretty solid effort on the part of Blue Marble Brands.

Review: Madrina’s

Madrina’s, which is named after the Spanish word for “godmother”, is a line of beverages that were inspired by traditional Latin American products. While conceptually, that’s a strategy that might…

Review: Unity Vibration Kombucha

Despite new regulation pertaining to its natural alcohol content, the kombucha category has continued to see a large number of new brands popping up. One of the brands that has…

Review: Plan Tea

The ready to drink tea category is a crowded one, but new offerings are still popping up. Plan Tea is one of the better of those new entries, with a…

Review: Karma Wellness Water

The latest entry into the cap dispensed enhanced water category (if such a thing exists) is Karma Wellness Water, an “acai pomberry” flavored product.  The 18 oz. bottle starts out…

Review: Star Nectar

StarNectar resurrects a simple form of an ancient medical system known as Medical Astrology. Medical Astrologists based their treatments on the natural existing relationships between plants, planets, and the twelve…