Juicy Juice Review, With $100 Visa Gift Card and Juicy Juice Prize Pack!

This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Juicy Juice.

I like diet soda. I don't drink a TON of it, but I drink it regularly and I like it, and I prefer it to the kind with sugar. But the pressure of "ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS ARE MANUFACTURED IN SATAN'S LAIR, PROBABLY WITH HIM NOT WASHING HIS HANDS FIRST" finally started getting to me, so I tried switching to unsweetened sparkling water. At first it was weird, but now I like it. It's nice to be drinking something fizzy but no longer have to struggle with the sugar vs. artificial sweeteners issue.

I'm still not anti-soda, and I let my kids have it if we go to a restaurant (and I drink it too). But the Juicy Juice carbonated juice seems like a really good idea as something THEY can start replacing THEIR soda with: FIZZ and a CAN to make it feel like soda, but without the conflict about sugar vs. artificial sweeteners. (Er, the conflict for ME; THEY don't give it a single thought yet.) Nestlé sent me a bunch of cans of the sparkling apple flavor so the kids could try it out. The littles are too little for it, but the bigs liked it.

Trying it out. Reaction: favorable.

For those of you who watch out for high fructose corn syrup, it has none of that. It's carbonated apple juice. Here's what it says on the label: "Ingredients: apple juice (water, juice concentrate), water, and less than 0.5% of natural flavors, citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), carbonation added." The cans are 8.4 fluid ounces and 90 calories each.

The sparkling canned version is new to me, but I was already familiar with Juicy Juice juice boxes because of field trips. There's always a notice that goes home beforehand, asking for the child to bring a lunch that's fully disposable and contains nothing breakable. I usually put in two juice boxes, one for with lunch and one for with snack.

My mom also likes to bring juice boxes and cookies for the kids if we make them come shopping with us: while I do the Really Boring departments, she sits and reads to them and gives them a snack.

They are fans.

The Juicy Juice boxes are 6.75 ounces each, and the fruit punch flavor has 100 calories per box. The label: "Ingredients: apple juice, grape juice, and passion fruit juice (water, juice concentrates), natural flavors, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), citric acid." Again, no high fructose corn syrup or other added sugars.


The prize is a $100 Visa gift card plus a Juicy Juice prize pack. To enter, leave a comment on this post by September 30, 2010 saying your favorite flavor of juice---or your kid's/kids' favorite. Mine is grapefruit. OOooh, or pineapple! Or cranberry! The kids like orange or apple or grape.

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