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.
BlogHer is giving you a chance to win a $1000 Visa Gift Card. A runner-up will win a $500 Visa Gift Card. If you'd like to throw your name into the hat, just tell me your favorite juice flavor (or your kid's favorite!) in the comments below. If I were playing along, I'd say Fruit Punch, which is ironic because WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF I HAD GOTTEN TO TRY SOME? Ahem.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Reader Comments (312)
Grape all the way!
I tweeted the blog:
https://twitter.com/mikesweeps124/status/245928944690397184
Apple juice, and orange juice
My kids always loved apple juice. I like grape juice.
tweet https://twitter.com/annedoggett/status/246069914505461760
I don't really drink juice, but I buy my daughter Berry Berry or Fruit Punch. It's only about 1/8 juice when she drinks it, so she doesn't really care what flavor it is, but she definitely doesn't like citrus!
Favorite is White Grape Juice... always refreshing!
I tweeted about the sweepstakes! https://twitter.com/mrsdangelo/status/246070918839951361
Fruit punch! Fruit punch! Except for when we have lemonade, which for some reason in our house is inexplicably called "mermaid juice"
Tweet: https://twitter.com/FireMom/status/246071131679911937
We actually tried the Capri Super-V Fruit Punch at the store. (Sidenote: my girl LOVES when there are FREE SAMPLES!!!) :) And that stuff was really, Really, REALLY good! You missed out. So, I'd have to go with Fruit Punch.
I've always been a grape guy, myself.
Grape!
I prefer the White peach grape
My kids like the Capri Sun lemonade best. Sometimes, simple wins.
I drink a bottle of Welches grape juice every morning. I do something special to it though. I freeze the single serving bottles, and move it from the freezer to the fridge at night before I go to sleep. When I get it out of the fridge in the morning, it is a perfect grape slush.
My daughter absolutely LOVES LOVES LOVES the fruit punch super V8
My favorite juice is probably orange. But then it's strawberry just because when Monkey was little she called it "strawbeddy" and was her favorite. :)
I'm going to go with anything red.
My favorite is the ...something... peach from Trader Joes. I should get up and look at the exact flavor.
My kid's favorite juice is the very boring apple. I like rudy red with tangerine.
We're pretty big fans of green juice here.
I am soooo not a juice drinker (long story)...but when I do drink them the fruitier the better...and I really love anything with pineapple.
My son LOVES the Super V! He asks for it all the time...I am no longer allowed to purchase regular Capri Suns....he loves any flavor, and who am I to deny my child healthy drinks!!!
white grape peach
I love apple juice and fruit punch!
My daughter likes the Caprisun 100% apple juice the best. Although I think part of the appeal is the pouch.
Fruit Punch! I drink it now like I did when I was a kid!
I tweeted at https://twitter.com/GMERRELL/status/246275244132802560
Strawberry Orange is my daughter's favorite juice flavor.
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/codyligon/status/246288191466926081
I tweeted about this post
https://twitter.com/rebeccathomasrd/status/246291915459403776
I'd have to say my son's favorite is the fruit punch. Super V was the first "juice boxes" I let him take to preschool for lunch. He thinks is a big boy drink, maybe it's because I would take one for my lunch too :)
I like Orange Juice
My Kids' fave juice is apple juice.
tweeted it
https://twitter.com/darrenswife1/status/246394529362624512
My kids favorites are cranberry apple and apple juice! Simple and sweet I suppose :)
i like limeade, cranberry, capri sun, grapefruit.... etc!
We like Peach/Mango varieties.
fruit punch is my fav
we make smoothies
https://twitter.com/karinaroselee/status/246723184865460224
i like the fruit punch
I would love to win. This would be a nice prize. thanks!
I love apple juice! :)
Tweeted the giveaway:
https://twitter.com/calidreamin87/status/246836990966894592
I like any cherry/pomegranate flavor.
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apple juice
My fave is fruit punch