Artificial lemonade made with some lemon juice concentrate (Britvic R Whites Premium Lemonade)

Member Name: Diane3

Product:	Britvic R Whites Premium Lemonade
Date:	15/09/09 (99 review reads)
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Advantages: it is ready made and bottled

Disadvantages: artificial taste, lot of unhealthy ingredients

We had a garden party two weeks ago and we bought a lot of drinks. As there were some drivers among the guests we bought some fizzy drinks as well. One of them was R Whites Premium Lemonade.

It is in a completely transparent plastic bottle, the drink itself looks like lemonades usual. The label on the bottle is yellow and green striped and it is written with large blue letters on it R Whites then below Premium and below Lemonade. This text has a yellow, lemon shape background. When you look at the bottle you think that this is really good lemonade. The label says that it is made with real lemons.

As the price is quite good (0.97 pounds per bottle in Sainsbury's or 2 bottles for 1.5 pounds) you take it in your basket. The bottle contains 2 litres of lemonade.

We chilled it but it wasn't very popular. I tasted it. Well, how to say... It has quite an artificial lemon taste and for me it is too sweat. I like sour lemonades that resemble me to the original lemon. I don't say that we still have it, somehow we drank it but I won't buy this type of lemonade again.


Ingredients

Carbonated Water, Sugar, Lemon Juice From Concentrate (2%), Citric Acid, Flavouring, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame, Saccharin), Preservative (Sodium Benzoate).

As I see, apart the water, sugar and lemon juice it doesn't contain any healthy thing. Usually the lemonade is made out of these 3 things...


Nutritional information

Each 250 ml serving contains:
Calories: 28
Sugar: 6g
Fat: 0g
Saturates: 0g
Salt: 0g

Luckily it is suitable for vegetarians. Free from cereals containing gluten and free from peanuts.


This lemonade is available in 150 ml can and exists also diet version of it. R Whites lemonade was manufactured by Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd. (Chelmsford CM1 1TU, UK). For more information about this product visit www.britvic.com


Verdict

I don't recommend you buying this product. If you want a really good lemonade, do it for yourself. You need the juice of one lemon, two tablespoons of sugar and a litre of water. Stir it until the sugar dissolves then taste it. If you like it sweeter than add some sugar to it. If you don't feel it sour enough add some lemon juice to it. I put it in a jar and put into it some lemon slices too. I like the taste of the lemon peel.

I don't think I will buy ready made lemonade again. I know that there are better ones on the market, but it is much cheaper and healthier if you prepare it at home.

Summary: I suggest you to make your own lemonade (I will make my own too)