PomX Iced Coffee

CaffeineGuru — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:10:06 +0000

The PomX Iced Coffee Trio

Today we’ll be looking at three drinks, each lovingly made by the folks over at Pom Wonderful . Pom Wonderful specializes in pomegranate drinks, and they’ve decided to enter the caffeine market with their product PomX Iced Coffee. Right now, there’s three flavors, and we have the pleasure of sampling all three. Pom boasts to be one of the healthiest caffeinated drinks out there, as it includes their patented pomegranate extract, so every sip is chock full of antioxidants (which are healthy!). They also use fat free milk, and are certified by the Rain forest Alliance (so they’re nice people). They use all natural ingredients and have chosen to use can sugar over the industry “standard” of HFCS.

Each drink comes in a plastic bulbous container with a screw off lid. It prominently – or should I say pomegranate-ly? (sorry about that) displays the flavor as well as the PomX logo. While the picture only shows one of the containers with the “The Healthy Buzz” badge, all of them now seem to have it. Additionally, each flavor packs 175mg of caffeine in a 10.5 oz container. Not bad! If you’re still with me even after that awful pun, let’s get to the actual taste, shall we?

First up to bat is the Vanilla variety. No, it does not taste like pomegranate, it’s iced coffee for goodness sake. This flavor smells like vanilla, and has a cream color to it. Vanilla tastes, well, it tastes like vanilla. I couldn’t even tell there was coffee in it, PomX clearly has utilized some sort of magic to mask out the coffee flavor. That being said, the Vanilla PomX goes down smooth, it’s not too strong, but it’s not watered down. The taste is utterly fantastic and with only 180 calories, it’s a great, and healthier alternative to the Starbucks Iced Coffees.

Next up is Café au Lait, and I’m already starting to feel the buzz from the first drink. Now this one smells like a cappachino, so it’s most likely to taste more coffee-esque than the last one. It has a kind of carmel hue to it, like coffee with a lot of milk, and just as it smells and looks like a cappacino, it tastes like it too. This variety also goes down smooth, and has a hint of coffee to the taste. PomX has done a good job of avoiding too strong of a beverage, and the Café au Lait has the perfect blend of coffee and milk to keep the flavor balanced.

Two drinks and 300mg of caffeine later, we’re now at the last of the three flavors; Chocolate. If you’ve been paying attention so far, you can probably guess that this one has a dark brown coloring, smells like chocolate, and tastes like chocolate. The taste is similar to chocolate milk with Hersey’s Syrup, but only tastes more mild and healthier (Pom uses cane sugar instead of HFCS).

This is a great product, and the three flavors are all great and give the customers a nice variety to pick from. You can check out the official site for PomX Iced Coffee over at HealthyBuzz.com or you can try to find some at your local store, use the website to locate the closest store.

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Starbucks Iced Coffee

CaffeineGuru — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:56:14 +0000

I stopped at the local Heinen’s (Ohio grocery chain) today to pick up an energy drink or two, and while I was there, I learned that this particular Heinen’s was seriously lacking in it’s caffeine selection. I also learned that they keep the dog food in the same aisle as the charcoal and insecticide. However, even though the selection of caffeine was mediocre and the dog food was by insecticide, the people were friendly and even the often angst-ridden, distraught, half-asleep teenager that bags the groceries as a summer job smiled at me, so I left content. The Starbucks Iced Coffee (Italian Roast) is an 11 oz can that contains: Coffee, nonfat milk, sugar, cream (to cancel out the nonfat property of the milk) and preservatives. It cost me a $1.99 which is a good price considering this is Starbucks. The can doesn’t label the caffeine content, but I was able to look it up and it contains 200 mg of caffeine per bottle. Not bad at all. It’s going to be difficult to describe this product, because it’s basically just watered down coffee with milk. It is very tasty, and went down well chilled, and it tastes like coffee with cream, milk and sugar after you put ice in it. It’s taste however, isn’t that distinct from the other coffee drinks out there, including the rest of Starbucks canned coffee beverages and competitor products. So, while this drink doesn’t stand out much from the rest, the price, taste, and caffeine content makes Starbucks Iced Coffee worth trying.

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