Snack Review: Breyers Pomegranate Blends All Fruit Ice Pops
Pomegranate is supposed to be one of those new miracle foods that will make you live forever. Trumpeting antioxidants on a box of ice pops seems silly to me. I mean, if you want a fruit-flavored healthy snack, let’s face it, they invented that a long time ago: they call it fruit.
But I’m always on the lookout for an ice pop made with real fruit juice for a more sensible reason: because they usually taste better. So I figured I ought to give these a go. If nothing else, they’d be a lot easier to eat than sucking all those little pomegranate seeds to get the juice off them. You have to feel sorry for the first human who was hungry enough to try that, you know?
The first thing you notice about these is that they have a much softer texture than something like a Popsicle – definitely not that hard snappy kind of ice pop. If you eat them slowly enough they soften into something almost like Italian ice.
They come in three flavors. Fortunately for the fussy among us, they are helpfully labeled on the outside of each pop so you don’t have to rip a corner open to see which flavor it is.
The first one I tried was the mango-pomegranate. As I mentioned when I wrote about Starbucks Vivanno smoothies, I am fussy about mango. This isn’t the mango ice of my dreams, no doubt because I prefer my mango unsullied with pomegranate. It’s a nice refreshing fruit flavor, but just OK compared to my ridiculously specific mango standards.
Mixed-berry-pomegranate is my least favorite. Despite the various berries listed in the ingredients, it tastes mostly of strawberry. I usually find strawberry flavored snacks to be too cloyingly sweet, and unfortunately, this one’s no exception.
The third flavor is blueberry-pomegranate. This was my favorite – blueberry has a little more zip to it than strawberry, maybe from a little acid to offset the sweetness? But you know, I am a little worried about eating these. Blueberry is supposed to be another one of those miracle foods, these days. Put it together with pomegranate and, well, I’m not sure I have enough money in my retirement funds to live forever, you know?
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