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Naked Juice was first sold to sun worshippers at the beach at Santa Monica: it has that California-healthy-youth-sun-and-surf appeal. It’s a quality product we’d gladly have a glass if you offered it to us again. But again: it’s a style many people would embrace, and do, as Naked Juice is going gangbusters. Thus, the paradox is that something all-natural with no sugar added tastes a bit like a frozen tropical drink, waiting only for a little paper umbrella and a pineapple spear. True, we were conscious of drinking something very sweet rather than something natural and healthy-if we hadn’t read the label, we would have thought something had been added and that it was more caloric than it actually is-but that's not necessarily a bad thing. And as much as we love straightforward fruit, we enjoyed drinking most of the juices in the “All Natural Antioxidant 100% Juice line.”

Of course, sweet isn’t necessarily a four-letter word: many people would be happy to have the sour of pomegranate or bitterness of açai mellowed by a bit of grape juice. Instead, it carried us on a blanket of blends: as you can see in the photo of Mango Madness, it’s about the mango.and the orange.and the grape juice underneath that provides the brand’s sweet profile. Maybe we had been waylaid by the word “naked,” thinking it would bring us to the bare essence of the pomegranate or the blueberry. That’s when we started to “get” the concept of Naked Juice. Mighty Mango is mightier with orange juice mixed in. But several months later, a bottle of Gold Machine arrived that won our heart: bursting with banana and pineapple, we felt as if we were in tropical cocktail heaven, and needed no rum or tequila. The crowd favorite was the Rainforest Açai, which has a great tanginess to keep it from being overly sweet. But then Gold Machine arrived: banana and pineapple. Red Machine was our editor’s favorite-a lusciousīlend of fruits rich enough to be dessert. We would have liked a bit more of that wonderful sour-bitter flavor in the Pomegranate juice we felt it got a bit buried under the sweetness.

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The Pomegranate Blueberry still has enough tannins to make your mouth pucker, which we liked and the Pomegranate Açai and Red Machine flavors, while quite sweet, are still full of great flavors. Sometimes the added grape juice can be so sweet that it overpowers the rest of the flavors in juices, but we didn't find this to be the case with the Naked line. We found that, of the drinks in our line-up, all but the Pomegranate Juice contained grape juice (either white, red or both), a go-to ingredient for drink companies that want to add sweetness without loading the product with added sugar or artificial sweeteners. Our first instinct was to check the ingredient label to find the secret behind the sweetness. It Must Be Sugar, ‘Cause Fruit Don’t Taste This Sweet For a heart-healthy antioxidant food that boasts so many good-for-you ingredients, the Naked Juice drinks taste a heck of a lot like candy. And shocked we were-though not necessarily because of all the vitamins. All of this produces juices that are thick, rich, and intensely-colored.but we are getting ahead of ourselves.Īt the risk of shocking our chocolate-logged systems with actual vitamins, we dived right in, sampling four juices (Pomegranate, Pomegranate Blueberry, Pomegranate Açai, and Rainforest Açai) and one smoothie (Red Machine). “2 pomegranates, 106 açai berries, 1 apple 1/5 banana & red and white grapes for good measure”). The Naked Juice bottles practically scream “health food,” each claiming “a pound of fruit in every bottle” on the front and detailing said fruits on the back (e.g. Naked Juice is a line of all-natural 100 percent juices, 100-percent juice smoothies and protein smoothies made from “the best bare-naked fruits”-no added sugar, preservatives, artificial colors or flavors. So when an assortment of Naked Juice drinks arrived in our offices a few days ago, we took it as a sign that we should be take a break from all the indulgent goodies we've been sampling and try something with some nutritional value. As delicious as many of these may be, most cannot exactly be considered healthful. In any given week at THE NIBBLE, we taste an enormous range of products: everything from flavored syrups to gourmet sausages to chocolate in its myriad forms. Main Nibbles / Beverages / Juices Naked Juices & Smoothies Health Food For Your Sweet Tooth

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