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Skriven 2006-06-22 13:25:00 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Beverage Tastes
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Triunto Mango Concentrate - Sort of a thickish, concentrated fruit 
pulp, made in Brazil. Mix 1 part juice, 2 parts water, sugar to 
taste (it needs it!) and ice; stir and serve.  Ingredients are 
mango pulp, water, concentrated mango juice, citric acid. Swigged 
right out of the bottle it's like eating an intenself-flavored
stewed mango, and not too bad but for the cooked taste that gives
it an almost baby-food-like quality.  Mixed according to directions 
into a beverage, the mango wanes and the baby food waxes.  Borderline
yukky, but if I used less water, more ice, a blender, and just a small 
splash of half-and-half for body I bet it would make an awesome
smoothy.

Triunto Guava Concentrate - Pretty much the same comments here as for
the Mango variety, except that the flavor is guava and there is that
typical sharp, almost rancid edge to the taste that is typical of that
fruit.  I like the mango better.

Herdez Juices - Made in Mexico, distributed by Herdez in Stockton CA.
- Tropical Fruit (from concentrate) - Juices of pineapple, orange,
  papaya, lime, grapefruit, mango, guava, and pear.  Cloudy pale
  yellow, no pulp.  Pineapple and grapefruit flavors predominate
  with a citrus finish mellowed by the mango and papaya.  I hardly
  noticed the guava at all, and wouldn't have even known about the
  pear if I hadn't checked the label. Very good and refreshing.  All
  natural, for the most part (no added sugars or water at all.)
- Tomato & Clam Cocktail - Tomato juice, sugar, vinegar, onion
  powder, clam powder.  Sharp tomato flavor with just the barest
  suggestion of clam.  Nothing special - the best "clam cocktail"
  is still vegetable juice (like V8) mixed 3:1 or 4:1 with chilled
  broth from a pot of steamers.
- Original Vegetable Juice - Juice of tomato, carrots, lettuce, 
  celery, spinach, beet, watercress, and parsely; corn syrup
  solids, salt, soy protein, spices, MSG, citric acid.  Compares
  quite favorably to V8 - a little thinner and a bit more orange 
  in color, but great veggie flavor  with a long, slightly bitter
  finish.  Two thumbs up.  This would make a bitchin' Bloody Mary.


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