O brave new world that has such beverages in't!

[hummingwolf]

The Campbell Soup Company, makers of V-8 100% vegetable juice, have come out with a brave new beverage: V-Fusion. Each 8-ounce glass of V-Fusion counts as a full serving of fruit and a full serving of vegetables! Why? How? It's a fruit-vegetable fusion! You can have a glass full of strawberry and tomato, sweet potato and banana--all at once!

This has nothing to do with LJ Rabbit Hole Day. The V-8 people actually came up with this product, and I actually bought the strawberry-banana flavor. I'm not at all sure which fact scares me more. (Curiosity is a dangerous thing.)

For those of you wondering: the juice does taste like strawberry and banana... and a bit of tomato. A tomato may be a fruit in the botanical sense, but I remain unconvinced that it has any business mixing it up with bananas and strawberries.

Comments

[icefacade.livejournal.com]

A tomato may be a fruit in the botanical sense, but I remain unconvinced that it has any business mixing it up with bananas and strawberries

so true so true

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I think the Campbell's Soup Company were counting on the fact that many Americans are willing to try anything if it promises them a way to get a serving of vegetables without having to eat any vegetables.

And I know my local grocery store was counting on the fact that people like me will try weird things if the sale price is good enough.

[icefacade.livejournal.com]

hehe - kind of like the blue, green and purple ketchup

at least for me, I LOVE veggies :D

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I've never had the funny colored ketchups. Do they taste any different?

I'm a veggie fan too! Unlike a lot of people, I actually love the original V-8.

[icefacade.livejournal.com]

nope, tasted the same - just made your bread look moldy :)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Mmm... moldy bread. Heh.

I never really have used ketchup much. If they made purple salsa, though, I'd probably buy it.

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I have a bottle of original V-8 in my fridge, right now :) If I'm going to mix original V-8 with *anything* it's going to be vodka.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I like to mix original V8 with hot sauce. Sure, they've got spicy V8 in cans already, but it's more fun to decide for myself just how hot I want my drinks to be.

[cantinera.livejournal.com]

I want to try one of these things. Maybe it will take the sweetness out of juice, but let me taste it!

Isn't there already carrot with mango V8 juice, or something like that?

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

A Google search gives me a site in the UK which has V8 Orange & Mango Fruit and Vegetable Juice (which has carrot juice in it). It's also possible that the V8 Splash fruit-flavored juices have carrot juice in them too--I never liked the Splash stuff enough to find out.

[magnifelyn.livejournal.com]

i love the idea of getting fruits and veggies without eating them. However, i think i'm going to stick to salad and fruit. Those freaky-weird combinations of produce would probably make me gag!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Heaven knows I love to try strange food combinations, but this is one I don't think I'll feel compelled to try again.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i saw that at the store the other day and couldn't believe it. yuck.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Weird, huh? The flavor's certainly not any worse than a lot of other drinks out there (those silly "flavored water" things with artificial sweeteners come to mind), so I can imagine the juice becoming reasonably popular if they come up with a good marketing strategy.

[coffeegrace.livejournal.com]

I had one with orange in it. I forget what the veggie was, but I couldn't taste it. I liked it. :-)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I noticed that the orange flavor had yellow tomatoes in the veggie part, which are probably less strong in flavor than red tomatoes are. Plus, maybe think tomato flavor would go with orange better than it does with strawberry or banana.

The strawberry banana flavor has juices of something like 4 fruits and 5 vegetables in it. The veggie juice has more sweet potato than anything else (sweet potatoes have juice??), but the tomato flavor is a little more obvious somehow.

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha!!!

That sounds really, really, gross...but very, very good for you!!!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

It's actually not horrible; I've gone through most of the bottle without difficulty. It just tastes *off* somehow, you know?

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Can't I just have regular V8? I like that better.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes, I think you can have regular V8 if you're sure that's what you really want. Just make sure you leave some for me!

[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

I think I'd just as soon have my V-8 with my fruit on the side.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I think that's probably a wise idea on your part!

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

It's pretty tasty - Lyssa and I picked some up last week.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, everyone has different tastes, I suppose. The mixture doesn't taste right to me, somehow. It's not bad; it's just not something I plan to buy again.

[compostwormbin.livejournal.com]

Carrot/orange juice beverages are actually pretty good. I'd recommend them. But tomato juice with strawberry-banana? Ewwww.

I bought this bread once that advertised as a good source of Omega 3. Wish I'd read the ingredient list before purchasing. I made a PB&J sandwich with it and it tasted... off. Maybe like something had gone slightly rancid. I checked the ingredient list and found - fish oil! I'm not kidding. I realized it did taste fishy once I understood what was causing the off flavor.

There's really no excuse when flax seeds are a perfectly acceptable source of omega-3 healthy fats...one that would be quite compatible with bread and give a hint of nutty flavor rather than a nasty fish taste.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Carrot juice goes pretty well with fruit flavors--it's fairly sweet and inoffensive. Tomato flavor is a little too strong to play well with others.

I've heard there's some debate about whether omega-3s in flax seeds & walnuts are as useful for people as the omega-3s in fatty fish. But when it comes to bread, I'm with you--nuts & seeds are definitely the better choice. Not many people want to eat jelly with their fish!

[compostwormbin.livejournal.com]

There's no way I could ever face eating fish three times per week. And fish oil capsules have a nasty after taste for hours. I've tried but I just can't bring myself to get Omega 3's from fish.

There are issues of pollution being stored in the fatty tissues of fish. There are also studies which show a vegan diet as being more healthful than one containing even small amounts - say 5% - of total food calories from animal protein. I suspect in the end it may be six of one and a half dozen of the other.