Listening to the car radio on the way to Chinatown Snapple was promoting it's White tea. They described it as the baby of tea leaves. You know whatever they're using it ain't White tea just carbonation with artificial flavoring and sugar. Hey Ito you don't need the FDA. Just a small disclaimer saying the FDA hasn't approved your claim.
Jim
i thought Snapple has just all natural ingredients... except the processed white sugar, and some preservatives... oh and the corn syrup... i guess it would be expensive to put natural juice so its probably naturally artificial concentrate...
Many of Snapple's products are not even made with freshly brewed tea leaves. Instead they use instant tea, supplied by Tata Tea, which now owns Tetley. I think the "main" Snapple with lemon is made with brewed tea and says "real brewed tea" or something to that effect in fine print on the label. The Diet Snapple with Lemon does not make any mention of "real brewed tea" on its label. If you don't see that phrase, it was made with instant tea.
Personally, I think all of Snapple's products are horrible anyway and I've never understood how they became so popular.
FWIW, the Lipton Original line (the stuff sold in glass bottles - not the canned stuff or plastic bottled stuff) is the only national brand of ready-to-drink tea made with freshly brewed tea leaves. But I don't really like Lipton Original, either. Like most ready-to-drink teas, it is over-sugared and over-lemoned with hardly any tea taste at all. I only like the iced tea I make myself - strong and unsweetened with a hint of lemon.
there are some other brands there's one thats at Ralphs and Trader Joes its in a 1.5L? bottle, black tea, no sugar, it was ok, i dont know if it was instant or real brewed. then there are some brands at WholeFoods but they're in small bottles, and my guess is they're some overpriced bullcrap.
Snapple doesn't have any carbonation. It does use Corn syrup, which is why it's so sweet.
It is so popular cause it A) was the first of the Non-carbonated drinks to advertize well B) has a cute idea and a cute ad C) is just as sweet as the carbonated drinks
The best of the bottled drinks in my estimation is Honestea. they use tea leaves and a BIT of real sugar, no corn syrup. ALMOST homemade. when I am out and want a tea, I go to our local quick shop, which sells it. Grocers do to, but not walmart.
Kitty
Actually, the TV version of that commercial is pretty funny.
It says a lot about Snapple drinkers without really letting them in on the fact that they're being skewered.
And it explains what white tea is, which will sell more of the real stuff (though Snapple drinkers may not make the leap from $1/bottle convenience-store fake product to $10/oz brew-it-yourself real product).
Which will raise the price...hey wait...
--Blair
I'm sure there are. But Lipton Original is the only nationally available brand to use real brewed tea in all its products. However, that is splitting hairs a bit because the Lipton Brisk line (cans and plastic bottles) use instant tea. That's really no different from Snapple using real tea in some of its products and instant in others.
Probably. I don't buy ready-to-drink iced teas because iced tea is so easy and cheap to make at home. I would probably buy RTD teas at lunchtime during the work week, but I don't since it's impossible to find anything that isn't sweetened. I don't like any kind of sweeteners in tea at all. I bring a thermos of homemade iced tea with me every day
The white sugar comes from cane, and the corn syrup from corn, so they are perfectly natural ingredients.
The artificial strawberry flavour is made from petroleum, which comes from dead dinosaurs millions of years ago, so it is also perfectly natural.
Artificial vanilla? It's a byproduct of particle board manufacture and is made from xylene which comes from xylol which is from wood, which is natural.
--scott
Xylene? Vanilla? So that's why that garage-floor stripper tastes so good!
--Blair "Ya gotta love secret ingredients."
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