Sugar-Free Drinks: How Sweet It Is!

You know you should drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Tip: It doesn’t have to be water to qualify.  Just make sure that you drink enough liquids that are caffeine-free and non-alcoholic.

Drinking lots of water, though, can become boring.  That’s where sugar-free drink mixes can help.  The idea: you mix a premeasured serving of a sugar-free drink mix into your glass of water or bottle of water. Voila: a tasty beverage!

Or at least that’s the theory.  Too many of the varieties I’ve sampled taste hideously artificial.  Sometimes they leave a nasty taste in my mouth. And others just seem to add color to the water without any flavoring at all!

My new food find: Ocean Spray Sugar-free Drink Mixes. One word: yum!!! I poured the pre-measured serving of sugar-free drink mix (in my first trial, it was White Cranberry Peach) into a bottle of water, then re-capped it and shook it.  Stuck it in the fridge for about fifteen minutes, then went straight to the gym.  One sip, and I yelled “Hurray!”  Fortunately, I was in a spin cycle class at the time, and all the other exercisers were yelling their own encouragement to each other, so no one noticed.

I definitely noticed, though: my thirst was quenched in the most delicious way you can imagine!  One serving has just five calories and a full day’s quota of vitamin C.  What’s not to like?

The other flavors available include cranberry grape, cranberry lemonade, cranberry pomegranate, cranberry, and ruby red.  Thus far, cranberry and the cranberry peach rank as my top two favorites. Drink on!

– by Joanne Eglash

Photo Credit: Alykat on Flickr

May 26th, 2009 by Joanne Eglash | Posted in General, Low Cholesterol Cooking, Low Fat Cooking, Tips | (5)