Diet Food Reviews

Snapple Red Tea Review

Snapple Red Tea is naturally caffeine free and is made from real brewed rooibos tea, a rare antioxidant-rich tea that only grows in the Western Cape region of South Africa. "We topped it off with real fruit juice packed with Vitamin C to contribute to a strong, healthy immune system" and that is all over the label. There are a few things I really liked about this tea, and a few things I did not - mainly because I feel that they have a very misleading label.

The good: The tea itself is a very light but refreshing drink. It reminded me a lot of flavored water - but in a good way. It was very slightly sweet but not a very strong tea taste. I really liked the mild flavor which just made me feel happy that I wasn't ingesting a fistful of sugar.

The bad: The label reads Peach Pomegranate Snapple Red Tea. Nowhere in the ingredients are the words PEACH or POMEGRANATE. In fact, the fruit juice (concenetrate) that they use is PEAR. It does say "natural flavors" but if there isn't even enough added for you to list them individually, why have it splashed all across the label Snapple? You know I HATE false advertising.

Then, there is this little fact across the front of the label, "contributes to a Healthy Immune system, real juice." Are they really claiming this because of that little bit of pear juice concentrate that they added, which only contributes 30% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin C? really now!!! It is unfortunate, because it is totally unneccessary - the label design is beautiful and I would have picked thsi up without the "gimmicks." Unfortunately, now I will never buy this again because of all the bull$@it.

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There was another good thing about this drink, and that one cup (8 ounce serving) has only 40 calories and 7 grams of sugars / total carbohydrates. I bought the 17.5 fluid ounce bottle - which was 90 calories total and 15 grams of sugar. That's really not that bad. There is also no artificial sweeteners in this drink.

I was all prepared to give Snapple Red Tea my 5 kiss rating, but because of the misinformation tactics on the label, I had to take something off. I guess I will stick with Snapple White Tea [read the 5 kiss review] because I sure won't be wasting my $1.25 on this.

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