Upon twisting the uniquely design cap, there’s a lightly sweetened soda like scent coming out from the bottle and it was refreshing too. The color of this healthy beverage looks similar to soy milk that you see on the supermarket shelves and with similar texture as well. The taste for the first couple sips were close to diet soda with a bit of recognizable sweet lychee flavor. As you drink more, it appears you could only taste the sweet taste, but as your mouth processes the drink, there’s a subtle sour taste at the end of your tongue. The sweetness is definitely tastes different than other beverage that has sweet taste because the use of crystalline fructose. After drinking half bottle of Neuro Bliss, the taste was still as fresh as the first time you tried. There’s no aftertaste in this drink that you would normally find in other functional drinks. By the way,not only the carbonation in this healthy beverage makes it fun to drink, but also adds a crisp effect to the taste.

For health benefits, it is for adults only and you shouldn’t be drinking this beverage if you are pregnant or nursing. This Neuro Bliss contains 35 calories and 9g of sugar for each 14.5 fl oz bottle. The supplements that will help you to enhance mood, improves memory, increase ability to handle stress, regulates mood and improves circulation are Acetyl-L-Carnitine, L-Phenylalanine, 5-Hydroxytryptophan, L-Theanine, Elutherococcus Senticosus, Rhodiola Rosea, and Ginkgo Biloba. As I have mentioned before, they used crystalline fructose as sweetener for the beverage. Other ingredients used for this beverage are: thiamin HCL, folate, malic acid, riboflavin, etc.

Overall, I like this Neuro Bliss even thought I didn’t feel any effects after drinking it. I was hoping that Neuro Bliss will bring me to the stress free land, but I guess one bottle couldn’t tell the difference or maybe I should have tried this drink under extreme stress. I’m looking forward to try the rest Neuro functional beverages. I hope they will give me the same impression as this one.

Details

Price: $1.99

Size: 14.5 Fl OZ / 430ml

Flavor: Lychee

Aroma: Lightly Sweetened Diet Soda

Calories: 35

Where to buy:  Store

Website:   DrinkNeuro Twitter Facebook

Taste

Upon opening the unique designed bottle cap, you can smell a very light sweet milky like aroma coming out from the bottle if you sniff hard enough and it reminds me of those milk candies that I used to have when I was little. The moment I had the first sip, my reaction was “Hmm.., it’s a diet drink.” After couple more sips, you can’t tell if the pomegranate flavor is in there because the taste is sweet in the beginning and then it tastes sour after you swallow down the liquid. As you drink more and more, the sourness in this drink starts to dominate over the sweetness. the liquid is not very thick and it’s easy to drink. Also, it’s not that refreshing, but kind of tasty. The aftertaste is similar to all other diet drinks.

Nutrition

It is designed to “combat oily skin, clogged pores and impurities.” Also, it is calorie free, no preservatives, sodium free, zero grams of Carbs and aspartame free. Well, there are many more key elements to help your skin. Look the picture below.

Overall

The taste for this drink is not bad and obviously it’s not going to help your skin to recover by just drinking one bottle. I bought this drink was out of curiosity and turns out not disappointing or felt wasted money on it. Well, for those who wants to give it a try and see if your skin will change then I wish you the best luck. There are other flavors out there from Bobra, but it’s just too expensive for skin water. I know you might want to argue that Starbucks coffees are also around that price, but the Starbucks coffee gives you the result faster.

Information

Price:  $4.00

Size:  16 FL OZ   473ml

Flavor:  Pomegranate

Aroma:  light Sweet milky like scent

Nutrition:  Vitamin A, C, E, B3, B6 and B12

Calories:  Zero Calories

Where:  Local Supermarket

Website: Borba.com, Borba Skin Water, Twitter, Facebook

Upon opening the canned bottle, there’s a strong citrus aroma coming out of the can. It tastes sweet and there’s burst in the mouth when you drink it. The burst is coming from the carbonated water and you can’t tell if its natural flavor or not even though it says natural flavor on the can. Man, after few sips, the gas already coming up. The aftertaste is not that awful with the exception of feeling dry in your mouth. It definitely tasted different than all the previous diet sodas that I’ve tried.

Overall, this diet soda is not for me because of the taste. I should just try another different diet soda next time or just stick with cola. This drink contains less than 1% juice and very low sodium. For those who have high blood pressure should watch out for sodium intakes. Diet Squirt has 35 MG or less per 240ML (8 FL OZ) can. It also contains Aspartame, Preservatives, Modified food starch, Phenylketonurics and other elements. There isn’t much I can talk about for this drink because it makes me want to squirt it all out after drinking it. If you like weird tastes or anything that is soda, then you should definitely try this diet soda.

Information

Price: $0.50

Size:  12 FL OZ   355mL

Flavor:  Citrus

Smell:  Lemon Lime

Nutrition:  Diet

Where:  C-Town

For this beverage, you can smell the fresh pomegranate aroma coming out when you open the bottle for the first time. As for the flavor, you can’t really taste the Acai or Blueberry flavor even thought it says Acai-Blueberry-Pomegranate. The dominate taste in the beverage is the pomegranate flavor. Also, there’s no sour taste in the beverage even thought they put the citric acid in the ingredient. I was expecting the beverage to be a little bit sweet like they used to have, but not the case with naturally sweetened flavor in this drink. The sweetness is perfectly balanced with other ingredients and the smell of pomegranate stays for a bit in your mouth after you finish drinking the whole bottle. Also, I love the fact that there isn’t an aftertaste that you’d normally find in a drink.

For health conscious people, the zero calorie statement says it all and it also comes with Vitamin C, B3, B5, B6 and B12. I really enjoyed drinking this beverage compares to the Vitamin Water Zero Lemonade Flavor. So far I have tried the XXX Acai-Blueberry-Pomegranate and Lemonade flavors. I will try the green tea flavor next. If you like Pomegranate flavor, then you should give it a try. For more information on the Vitamin Water, please visit here.

Information
Price: $1.50
Size: 20 FL OZ 591mL
Flavor: Acai-Blueberry-Pomegranate
Smell: Pomegranate
Nutrition: Vitamin C, B3, B5, B6, B12, Manganese, Antioxidant Vitamin A and Electrolytes
Where: RiteAid
Website: Facebook

Gold Peak Diet Iced Tea

I just discovered this Gold Peak Diet Iced Tea in a local pharmacy store while I was looking for Vicks Dayquil. The beverage plastic bottle design looks very interesting and the color of the drink reminds me of bitter teas that I have tried in the past. This beverage is produced under the authority of Coca-Cola Company. Currently, there are five flavors available under the brand and as you may know that this brand is not new. For those who have already tried this beverage, I assume you love the taste even if you are not a tea drinker. After a little bit of research, it seems people are having trouble finding this great diet iced tea beverage.

When you open a bottle of beverage, you normally would smell some sort of strong aroma coming out, but this drink does not have that dominating smell coming out. It just smells like regular tea. As for the taste, it is very refreshing and it is not over sweetened. The balance of sweetness and the tea flavor works out perfectly. Normally, you would expect the diet drinks to be all watery flavored because its diet, but not the case for this drink. After you finish half of the bottle, you will feel a little bit of bitterness in your tongue, but it still tastes much better compares to the teas that are serving in Asian restaurants. Also, I love the fact that there isn’t an aftertaste that you’d normally find in a diet drink.

In regard to health benefits, it has calorie free, very low sodium and no preservatives statements on the bottle. Also, there’s another statement about “Phenylketonurics: contains Phenylalanine.”  To those who do not understand what that means or concerns about the statement, you can visit this website.

I love this tea drink!

Information
Price: $1.79
Size: 18.5 FL OZ 547mL
Flavor: Diet Tea
Smell: Tea
Nutrition: Calorie Free, Phenylketonurics: contains Phenylalanine
Where: Rite Aid, Seven Eleven, Shop Rite, Duane Reade, Hess Express, etc.
Website: http://www.goldpeaktea.com

Most of the time, your mind will tell you anything that you try will have a pleasant taste or not after your first bite, sip or smell. For this beverage, you can smell the fresh lemonade flavor coming out of the bottle when you open it for the first time or for the last time before you throw it away. The lemonade flavored tastes a little bit sour, but after few sips, you are kind of getting used to this taste and it won’t be as sour as your first sip. I was expecting the beverage to be sweet like they used to have. For every sip, your tongue will taste a little bit of sourness first and then you will taste the sweetness. The combination of sour and sweet flavor is what makes this drink special. It reminds me of the sweet and sour chicken with broccoli flavor dish from American style Chinese restaurant. Well, it’s more like less sweet and sour version of that dish. The smell of the lemonade stays for a bit in your mouth after you finished the whole bottle.

In regard to health benefits, obviously the zero calorie statement says it all. In addition, it comes with other excellent source of C and B vitamins. Now, you may ask “what if I drink it everyday?” well, there are people who drink beverages just because of the flavors and not care about what’s in it.

Since I’m not a lemonade flavor guy, I didn’t enjoy drinking this beverage as much as my favorite ones. If you like lemonade, then you should give it a try. By the way, many Vitamin Water fans are missing the Vitamin Energy.

Information
Price: $1.50
Size: 20 FL OZ 591mL
Flavor: Lemonade
Smell: Lemon
Nutrition: Vitamin C, B3, B5, B6, B12, A&E + zinc and electrolytes
Where: Local supermarket
Website: VitaminWater Zero

The design of the drink bottle is almost the same as the Vitamin Water bottle, except a little skinner and I think it is a pretty smart move in terms of marketing. When I open the cap, there was a fruity sweet smell coming out of the bottle and it’s similar to Vitamin Water. I did not smell any passion fruit or lemonade from the drink itself.  According to the information on the bottle, there’s no sugar in the drink, but I still tasted a bit of sweetness in the drink. Also, you have to finish the whole bottle in order for you to actually realize that there was a lemonade flavor in the drink. To me, the smell was way better than the actual taste of the drink. Imagine a bottle with only fresh aroma and no liquid in it.

I haven’t tried other flavors from Skinny water, but the one I kind of lean toward trying is the Peach Mango Mandarin. If anyone has tried already, let me know what the taste is like. For those of you who sit’s in front of computer all day and don’t want to move and want to be skinny, I think this drink might be for you because it tastes better than regular water, help you to get skinny and it will force you to get up and go to the restroom.  Also, for those who are tired of drinking plain water, you might want to give Skinny Water a shot.  Hala back!

Information

Price:  $1.00

Size:  16fl oz/473ml

Flavor:  Lemonade Passionfruit

Smell: Fruity Sweet

Nutrition:   Vitamin A, B, C, E, Calcium, Potassium and EGCG.

Where:  Your local supermarket

Web: www.skinnywater.com

I’ve never tried any pomegranate drinks before and not sure what to expect from the drink in terms of the taste.  After I opened the bottle and pour it into the glass drinking cup, there’s a strong fresh fruity sugary aroma coming out of the drink. The first sip gave me a sweet taste, but after few sips, I felt a combination of sweet and sour flavor in the drink. Maybe that’s how the fruity diet drinks suppose to taste. It just doesn’t taste like pomegranate, but maybe more like fruit punch flavor. While drinking the beverage, I felt like drinking sweet sour chicken soup with some fruity taste in it.  Personally, I didn’t like the taste and I had to finish the drink because it was for a good cause and it was expensive too.

Since everyone has different taste and preference, you might as well try it out yourself and see if you like it or not.  I think for any good cause you should support it.

Information

Price:  $1.50 – $2.00

Size:  18.5FL OZ 547mL

Flavor:  Pomegranate Acai Berry

Smell: Fruity Sweet and Sour

Nutrition:   Vitamin A, C, E, Chromium, L-Carnitine, Citrimax, Apple Polyphenols

Where:  Your local supermarket