By
Arthur Walsh
Good
news for all you shoppers that enjoy a sweet, refreshing beverage
but find the all-natural options unsatisfying. There's no
need to give up soda or feel slightly guilty about drinking
it.
I
mean, let's face it, on a hot summer day it's a wonderful
feeling to come home and crack open a nice cold soda, but
constantly drinking products like Coke and Pepsi means consuming
a lot of corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. So what to do?
There's another option now.
Esteban
Anson, Owner of a small town natural foods restaurant in downtown
Denver, has come up with a solution for keeping sodas sweet
without sugar or man-made sweeteners. He developed "Oogave,"
a refreshing soda that uses Oogave nectar as its primary ingredient.
(Those of you who are interested in the nutritional components
of Oogave Nectar you have Google at your
disposal.)
Up
until now most sodas have used high-fructose corn syrup as
their base ingredient, which basically has no benefit to the
body. Despite what producers say, the process of making corn
syrup isn't a natural one. Oogave Sodas have
moved beyond it. With all-natural Oogave nectar as its primary
ingredient, the sodas taste like flavored natural spring water,
which allows the sodas to walk a very fine line between flavor
and refreshment. Each flavor seemed to be so carefully woven
together you would think that Esteban was a 7th generation
alchemist
It really is a pleasurable experience and when you enjoy a
bottle, you don't have to worry about all the corn syrup most
other sodas have.
Realizing that people have varying tastes, Anson knew he had
to provide options. So he created eight flavors: Grapefruit,
Root Beer, Cola,
Key Lime, Vanilla
Cream, Ginger Ale, Rhubarb,
and Watermelon Cream. Most of
them are quite good.
The
Grapefruit flavor felt like the literal experience
of drinking a sweetened grapefruit. It gave all the flavor
and smell one would have while eating a grapefruit and the
bitter aftertaste once it's swallowed.
Oogave's
Ginger Ale flavor was especially refreshing.
It has the feel of a citrus flavored beer,and the taste of
carbonated fresh ginger, which was very pleasing. Not to mention
the Vanilla Cream
flavor that was so unique and tasty, to give it any kind of
description would fail to do it justice.
The
Root Beer flavor reminded me of a homemade
version I love at my favorite little micro-brewery in downtown
Santa Rosa. Now that I have discovered that experience can
be bottled and taken home, I felt as if the whole world was
beginning to open up.
What
Anson has done is kind of inspiring. Offering such enjoyable
beverages without sugar or corn syrup is really a wonderful
thing. It's easy to see how people everywhere would enjoy
Oogave sodas. They are well worth a try, so go ahead and see
just what nectar can do.
www.oogave.com
