Glucoholic - Sugar Free Snacks

You’re not going to hear us praising products sweetened with aspartame very often, but this time we feel we should make an exception. Diet Vernor’s Ginger Soda is one unique ginger ale. The labeling informs us that this ginger ale is barrel aged for three years, and that it has bold taste. “Bold taste” is one of those phrases that you usually ignore as quickly as when your boss says things as inspired as “total dedication” and “commitment to excellence.” We’re not big on the cliche’ ’round these parts, and that’s why we like to make special note when a company actually provides what they say they will. Bold taste is probably the tersest way to accurately describe the taste of this sugar free drink. The taste starts out refreshingly cool, and about the time you are expecting to notice the aspartame you get this powerful rush of ginger taste. And this taste sticks around. It’s got some kick. We could barely tell we were drinking a soda sweetened with aspartame.

Each twelve ounce serving provides 25mg of sodium and nothing else, other than powerful ginger taste. This sugar free soda is caffeine free. We’re glad we did not let the aspartame scare us away from this unique ginger ale. If you think you’d enjoy a ginger ale with a little something extra, then we encourage you to give this fine sugar free drink a try.

The good folks at Sunny Delight were nice enough to send over all six flavors of their new Fruit2O Essentials line for us to review. Essentials flavored waters are fortified with vitamins and minerals. Competition has really heated up in the fortified water market, and we think that Fruit2O has a very good offering. The flavors are interesting and we enjoyed each of them.

The kiwi strawberry flavor was our favorite. Of the berry flavors we thought it had the best taste in terms of both quality of flavor mix and strength of flavor. It reminded us a little of the same flavor in the Propel line of flavored waters. We would recommend starting with this flavor.

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The Glucoholic hates being negative. Our faithful readers know that we really try to review high quality products on a regular basis. But, there comes a time when we feel like it is necessary to assign a very low rating to a product to save our readers the time and money they might spend on a poor quality product. This is one of those times. La Croix Cran-Raspberry Flavored Water is awful. Please do not purchase it. The Glucoholic never contemplated what carbonated glass cleaner might taste like, but now he does not have to. We even tried adding Splenda to see if some added sweetness might mask some of the horrible taste, but it just seemed to make it worse.

We’re not going to provide the nutrition information for this product for fear that you might be tempted to try it despite our desperate warnings. There is the possibility that there is some comedic value to be had in trying this product, or better yet, getting your friends to try this product. We do not recommend this and deny any responsibility for what might happen as a result of a cruel joke like this. Here’s hoping for a better review later this week!

A 2009 Chef’s Best Award winner, Diet Gold Peak Tea is a delightful sugar free drink. The brand is owned by The Coca-Cola Company, which knows a little bit about brand recognition. The packaging is simple, but elegant. The tea has a taste that can only come from quality tea leaves. With Coca-Cola’s help this tea should become quite popular. The tea could be slightly sweeter, but what person brought up on sweet tea in the south would refuse to have their tea a little sweeter? If you’re not accustomed to making a trip to the store for a new bag of sugar each time you brew a batch of tea, then you’re going to like this tea. We usually hate to give credit to a beverage that’s sweetened with aspartame, but Gold Peak gave us no options. We kept taking sip after sip waiting for some sort of aftertaste, but nothing ever materialized. This is a quality iced tea.

Each eight ounce serving contains 25mg of sodium and that’s it. Gold Peak’s mix of aspartame and acesulfame potassium must have taken months to perfect, because we think the aspartame is undetectable. With zero calories and zero carbohydrates, this sugar free drink has to be one of our better finds this year, and we encourage you to give Diet Gold Peak Tea a try!

We’ve had some interesting experiences with green tea in the past. We were beginning to think that we would never find a sugar free green tea we were really happy with. But then we found Diet Snapple Lime Green Tea. They say that sometimes the smallest things make the difference, and who would have known that a little lime could make so much difference? Diet Snapple Lime Green Tea is a wonderful blend of green tea, lime flavor, and sweetness. As you lift the bottle for the first sip your nose detects the aroma of green tea leaves and your past experiences tell you to prepare for disappointment. But then the fresh lime flavor just explodes, and you are left with a sweet aftertaste. If you, like us, are a little afraid of green teas, then we highly recommend you give this tea a taste.

Diet Snapple Lime Green Tea is a sugar free drink sweetened with sucralose and acesulfame potassium. Each eight ounce serving contains zero calories, zero fat, and only 10mg of sodium, and only one gram of carbohydrate. If you are looking for a healthy sugar free drink that tastes pretty good, you can’t do much better than this one.