Continuing on with my Snapple series, I washed down my lunch (my wife’s delicious and low-fat stuffed shells) with a bottle of Snapple’s new “nutrient enriched water beverage”, or antioxidant WA+ER as it’s more generally known.  I covered the background info in my first Snapple Water post, so I’m not going to rehash that again.  Instead, let’s get right into today’s flavor, Stawberry Acai.

According to the good people at Snapple, the Strawberry Acai flavor has the power to Awaken, which is Snappleese for it’s got “Vitamins A, E and B, Caffeine, Guarana, Ginseng and Ribose, plus electrolytes” to awaken your senses.

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that you’re plenty familiar with what a strawberry is.  The Acai thing, well that might be a bit foreign to you, unless of course you happen to be from Brazil, in which case, feel free to skip ahead.

Just as I did last time around, I hit up wikipedia to find out exactly what an Acai is, and well, here’s a bit of what they have to say about it.

The açaí palm (pronounced [asaˈi]) is a member of the genus Euterpe, which contains 7 species of palms native to tropical Central and South America, from Belize south to Brazil and Peru, growing mainly in floodplains and swamps… The fruit, a small, round, black-purple drupe about 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter, similar in appearance and size to a grape but with less pulp, is produced in branched panicles of 700 to 900 fruits.

I also learned that acai is exceptionally high in antioxidants, which might explain why Snapple sent Wendy to Brazil and had her fill a 747 up with ripe delicious berries.  Alright, I made the Wendy thing up, but the antioxidant part is true, and that’s what really matters.

The bottle says Strawberry Acai is a “fireworks display of natural stimulants”.  While I’d just as soon the 4th of the July not happen in my mouth, I’ve got a job to do, so I carefully twist the top off the pink liquid and hope that it doesn’t explode.

As it turns out, Snapple water is fairly inert so I was pretty much able to drink it without incident, and that’s a good thing.  The bottle says (actually it reads, but you get picture), Strawberry Acai antioxidant water will fill my body with a chorus of oooohs and aaahs.  That’ right, 4 Os and 4 As, so this stiff has to be great, right?

Well…not so much.  My experience with Strawberry Acai was very similar to my experience with the Raspberry Acerola.  That is to say, I give it a resounding , “eh”.  I’m definitely not qwow’d by the stuff.  The best way I can think of to explain the flavor:

Imagine you just bought a bottle of Kiwi Strawberry Snapple (which I love), you open it, but before you can drink so much as a drop your dog starts making a fuss because she has to go outside.  And since the dog pretty much has no regard for your schedule, and you fully understand that dogs are impatient creatures and if you don’t let her out in the next 30 seconds you’re going to have another kind of mess on your hands, you begrudgingly set your just-opened bottle of Snapple Kiwi Strawberry down on the counter while you go attend to your canine friend.

While your off kowtowing to the every need of a what, when you think about it, is rather ungrateful beast with an IQ which might hit the high single-digits, your brother, sister, husband wife, kid, brother-in-law who refuses to wear pants, etc. (whatever other ungrateful annoyance happens to live in your house) stumbles across your delicious Kiwi-Strawberry flavored Snapple beverage, and quickly drinks half the damn bottle before he/she/it realizes that it’s the last bottle of Kiwi Strawberry Snapple in the house, and if you come back and find it half gone, there’s going to be trouble.

As idiots often do, your trouser-less brother-in-law comes up with the lamest plan imaginable, which in this case is to fill your have-gone bottle of Kiwi Strawberry Snapple back to the top with the only liquid readily available; tap water.

So you return with a happy dog, to a happy (and pantless) brother-in-law who is all kinds of proud of himself because he thinks he’s about to put one over on you.  By now you’ve nearly forgotten that you even have a Kiwi Strawberry Snapple, but you see the bottle, and you’re reminded that not 5 minutes ago, before your stupid dog started yapping,  you were right on the verge of actually drinking it.  Well, thankfully, now you can (finally) drink it, and so that’s what you do.

Well guess what?  Surprise!  Your rich delicious bottle of Snapple Kiwi Strawberry has been mysteriously transformed into Snapple’s new Strawberry Acai antioxidant water.

So there you have it, short story long, Snapple Strawberry Acai tastes like watered down Kiwi Strawberry.  Of course the trade off is you get fewer calories, more vitamins, and none of that sugary burn in the back of your throat, so it’s really not all bad.

As you can probably tell, Strawberry Acai antioxidant WA+ER, for my money, is not a winner.  Again.  It’s not bad, not bad at all.  It’s just no delicious.  I’ve got 2 more bottles of Snapple in my fridge, however;  I’m confident that at least one of them is going to be awesome.

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