Diet Food Reviews
Favorite Diet Food and Drinks of 2006: Beverages
While 2005 was the "Year of flavored water", 2006 was the "Year of the antioxidant beverages and green tea (both hot and cold)." However - none of those made it to my favorites!
1. Slim Fast Optima Hunger Control Shake. I'll admit that I felt this shake helped me with my cravings. I had it for lunch and I was quite fine until dinner time (and I'm not being paid to say this). Judge for yourselves people!
2. V8 Fusion: Fruits and veggies in one drink could have been a disaster, but the folks at V8 know what they are doing. They made drinking your veggies cool! Trick your kids into getting a serving of their veggies by drinking this.
Runner Ups: Diet Lipton Green Tea with Citrus AND Diet Nestea Green Tea. Just because they have no calories and I love tea!
One of my favorite end-of-year "Favorite Food Products of the Year" articles is from FoodProcessing.com. In their Top 8 [link] they included 3 beverages: V8 Fusion [read our review], Special K Protein Water (which I tasted but forgot to review in 2006 - and wouldn't have included anyway) and Diet Pepsi Jazz - what the he$#??!! I don't know where that came from - Am I wrong, or was this one of the most forgetable soda introductions ever? [read our review]. I really need your comments on this one people!
Predictions for 2007
It seems pomegranate made it's introduction to the popular market this year, and I predict that it will be in everything next year - not only beverages (I already saw some pomegranate waffles!). When it comes to pomegranate juice - I love it, I think it's healthy, BUT it is too damn expensive and I refuse to pay $2.50 for an 8 ounce bottle of anything other than liquid gold. I also think plain old fashioned water is going to make a big comeback and lots of those flavored waters will be gone from the shelves by the end of 2007.
Take a look at what made the Favorite Beverages List in 2005.
See more on: Beverage
, Favorite Foods
, favorite
| 3 Comments
3 Comments
Leave a comment
Recent Reviews
What We're Cooking
Saving on Healthy Foods
Top 20 Tags
Recent Comments
(remove pants to send mail) Somehow it doesn't seem quite right to include a meal replacement shake in your top beverages list. . .kind of like when the USDA approved "ketchup" as an official vegetable for school lunches in the eighties. As a matter of personal taste, I've always felt that excluding fruit from vegetable juices was a recipe for disaster. The only 100% veg. juice I can coerce myself into downing is V-8 (anti-oxidant formula) and that's only because it contains more K than any other food product I've ever seen. I *totally* hear you on the pom juice. When I have it, I use it sparingly- as flavoring or maybe by the shot as a treat. Do you think there's any possibility that as gains popularity in the US, they'll develop more economical efficient methods for extraction? Obviously it sounds good, but as everyone who's ever eaten a pomegranite can attest, it's more like a hobby than a snack. . .
I find it funny there are links to such decided unhealthy products on a health food website. High fructose corn syrup, artifical flavor additives, and god knows what else is in them. And I hope you don't really trust the government agencies to tell you what is good for you and what is not. Best do your own research from a reputed source (not any industry funded sources of course, but real researchers who aren't getting paid to be biased). Otherwise it would be on par with asking the tobacco industry if smoking is good for you, or the glutamte industry if MSG is safe, or asking the oil industry about an alternative energy source.
anafagodma: I hadn't thought of it quite like that - with Slim Fast being a meal replacement beverage and you might be right. I was thinking about it more in terms of I did feel fuller when I drank this and it might help to curve cravings for snacks and help us not eat too much.
Hiral, Hiral, Hiral: It's a "review" website not necessarily a healthy foods website - but that's semantics. Who exactly are you suggesting that I trust? Did you not know that universities receive funding from the government and thus ultimately most researchers get government money? And thanks for tip about doing my own research - I am lucky enough to have access to a few hundred peer reviewed journals and I read all the food and nutrition ones. I try to avoid discussing unfounded accusations on this website and internet hocus pocus - like about HFCS, artificial sweeteners etc, but I would be more than happy to have an "email debate" with you. My PhD research focused on sweeteners, so I have read every last published (peer reviewed) article on artificial (and natural) sweeteners, so be fore warned I am armed and dangerous with the knowledge *insert muhahaaa sinister laugh here.*