The SuperV is Super Gone
Allow me to pull back the curtains for a moment and reveal that there is an honest-to-goodness PROCESS that happens when I get a product to review. I get the product. I try the product. I write about the product. It's not a complicated process, but IT EXISTS.
And yet here I sit with a product to write about, but I DON'T HAVE ANY OF IT.
There was a whole bunch of Capri Sun Super V in my house. A WHOLE BUNCH. But it happened to arrive while Alexis and I were out of town. By the time we returned, it seems that a few of the pouches of the new, healthier juice drink had vanished. Like magic. And then Alexis got wind that there were juice pouches in the fridge, and the rest vanished. Like magic. POOF!
I never even got to try one. I live with savages, clearly.
So I guess that means that the savages were fans of the Fruit Punch flavor? They have both requested I go buy more, so I guess that's what it means.
The weird thing is that Alexis isn't generally a fan of juice. She has her moments, but for the most part, juice pouches can last months in our fridge. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the reason she likes the Capri Sun Super V juice pouches is they aren't filled with water, sugar, and artificial junk.
No. Really. They aren't.
The ingredients: Water; Grape, Apple, and Sweet Potato Juice Concentrates; Soluble Corn Fiber; Carrot Juice Concentrate; Citric Acid; Strawberry Juice Concentrate; Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C); Natural Flavor; Vitamin E Acetate; Beta-Carotene.
Somehow, some way, the little alien who prefers lima beans to cheese puffs can sense that the Capri Sun Super V juice pouches are healthy.
HOW DOES SHE DO THAT?
I quizzed the little health nut to see if she could taste the healthy. Her response?
"It tastes like mixed fruit juice. Like . . . fruit punch. Let me think here . . . this juice is so yummy I didn't want to stop drinking it! It tastes a little bit sweet and it's good. It's really good."
So I guess she can't taste the healthy. She just plain likes Capri Sun Super V.
Considering the ingredients, I'm OK with that.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Reader Comments (312)
My favorite flavor is blue... like the blue part of a "Bomb Pop"... Whatever that flavor is...
I love orange juice with grapefruit a close runner up.
Grapefruit!
I Love grape juice...it might be my favorite part about communion!
I'll have to try this for the kids!
I love tropical fruit juice!
Looove me some cranberry juice mixed with club soda
Mixed Berry is what's it is all about - but it needs to actually be JUICE, not 10% or 40%
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Grape is def my favorite. But I've always said if I could find a way to juice a watermelon that watermelon juice would be my favorite!
I just recently rediscovered the joy of apple juice when you're really sick and have had nothing but water for three days. It tastes like gold. Gold and ritz crackers and sunshine.
Cran-raspberry
cranberry all the way.
Grapefruit. Clearly, I am one of the few.
Around these parts were fans of anything that isn't Cherry or Pineapple (GACK). Both of my kids love a capri sun more than just about anything so I was super stoked to see a slightly healthier version to stock my fridge with.
I gotta say my favorite has always been what we call BOP juice. The Banana Orange Pineapple blend. I can drink gallons of this stuff...in a day. But I only did that once. =)
My favorite is the berry!
my kids love apple juice, or white grape juice. I'm going to have them try the super V when I go to the grocery store again!! thanks for the heads up!
I might legit have to pick these up for school, because we are kind of freaks about no added sugar and chemicals and blah blah blah.
Also, my current favorite flavor of juice is mango, but that's just because I'm annoyingly fresh off a trip to Costa Rica.
I love all flavors of juice! Other than water, it's my favorite. I'd have to go with acai mixed berry. Speaking of...I think a trip to the grocery store is needed!
Apple for the munchkin, orange for me!
Mix of 2/3 cranberry juice & 1/3 orange juice
Pineapple
Orange juice definitely wins in our house. A gallon lasts maybe two days.
Loveee orange juice. I've also enjoyed tomato juice of late, but I think that's more due to my newfound love of bloody marys.
My favorite juice is cranberry, the all natural kind. I like that you included the ingredients list for the juice in your review. I tried the berry flavored Capri Sun V a few weeks ago and it was really good.
orange juice, no pulp!
Fruit punch sounds good, berry too. Thanks for the review and giveaway.
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Not a big juice drinker, but when I do partake, it usually involves orange mango juice. And vodka.
We love the Super V fruit punch around here. Can't buy em fast enough to keep up with demand.
I like apple juice and orange juice the best.
The kid like apple juice, the wife and I like fruit punch. There are times when I don't think the kid is ours.
I can drink orange juice like it's my job. When I'm in the mood for sweet, artificial crap, I like strawberry-kiwi.
There's new Capri Sun? OOOH.
The boys recently fell in love with, wait for it, cranberry juice. LIKE THE STRAIGHT KIND. Weirdos.
I'm not a big fan of juice, but if I do drink some it's usually white grape or apple juice.
Grape juice. Love it! :)
My kids both like Fruit punch, but of course one likes the 100% juice fruit punch, but the other only likes regular Capri Sun fruit punch. So I always have 2 boxes in the fridge. But we are going to have to try the Super V type of fruit punch, since Alexis says it's so yummy. Bonus if I get to sneak some veggies into my kids.
My kid loves juice of all flavors, but whenever he gets the choice? Apple juice. Boring, plain old apple juice. It was even one of his first utterances. Mama, dada, appo joos.
Fruit punch
We like Mango...anything mango....... Next, in line, would be Tart Cherry Juice
Apple juice. And so it has been since I was two.
Apple Juice for me. Cheeze-it doesn't drink juice yet.
The favorite juice in my house is hands down orange juice. We go through a gallon of oj quicker than milk.
Okay I must (and my kid) be a bit odd because my favorite juice? Has got to be hands down, tomato juice. I can seriously drink myself an entire can in 2 sittings of straight up V8 (also? people who put Worcestershire sauce in tomato juice? total freaks)
The second favorite is Orange juice LOTS of pulp (more pulp than juice) for me and Apple juice for the kid.
I love grape juice, but hate grapes. Go figure.
Apple Juice! :)
We love orange juice
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Orange