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Cool Soup Creamy Mango Spice

June 5, 2008

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We were really excited to try this new product; we love the idea -- ready to eat, drinkable soup -- and we love the packaging, but unfortunately, that's where the love-fest ends. The Creamy Mango Spice flavor is really sweet and the combination doesn't work as well as we thought it would. The flavors seem to be fighting each other; and one look at the ingredient list tells us why: peaches and apple juice follow mango on the list, and the aroma of peach is overpowering, while the apple juice flavor just doesn't work well with chili pepper. If Go Appetit had stuck to just mango, we think this would have been great, but as it is, they should have called it "Mango, Peach and Apple Spice" -- it's a bit misleading as it is. It's rich in potassium, which is great, but packed with sugar: 26 grams, which we find excessive. Available in other flavors. Retails for $2.49/8-oz. bottle.

Go Appetit Foods
Houston, TX
866-776-7940
www.goappetit.com

Taste: 20
Value: 17
Health: 11
Ingredients: 11
Preparation: 10
Appearance: 5
Packaging: 5
Total: 79


Cool Soup Creamy Mango Spice

June 5, 2008

gourmetretailer/photos/stylus/28581-20080601_hm_coolsoup.jpg

We were really excited to try this new product; we love the idea -- ready to eat, drinkable soup -- and we love the packaging, but unfortunately, that's where the love-fest ends. The Creamy Mango Spice flavor is really sweet and the combination doesn't work as well as we thought it would. The flavors seem to be fighting each other; and one look at the ingredient list tells us why: peaches and apple juice follow mango on the list, and the aroma of peach is overpowering, while the apple juice flavor just doesn't work well with chili pepper. If Go Appetit had stuck to just mango, we think this would have been great, but as it is, they should have called it "Mango, Peach and Apple Spice" -- it's a bit misleading as it is. It's rich in potassium, which is great, but packed with sugar: 26 grams, which we find excessive. Available in other flavors. Retails for $2.49/8-oz. bottle.

Go Appetit Foods
Houston, TX
866-776-7940
www.goappetit.com

Taste: 20
Value: 17
Health: 11
Ingredients: 11
Preparation: 10
Appearance: 5
Packaging: 5
Total: 79

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