

Product Type: Sainsbury's Soft Drink
Newest Review: ... used to drinking. The packaging is nothing special, just the sort of bottle you'd expect for any container of squash. You can get it in a... more
Doubly bad!
Sainsbury's Double Strength Orange Squash

Member Name: elizabethcullen
Product:
Sainsbury's Double Strength Orange Squash
Date: 02/09/11
Rating:
Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Double concentrate, not very nice
We always used to get a certain brand of orange squash that was drunk in abundance (summer magic orange squash from Netto) but since it has been discontinued we needed a replacement, and since we do the weekly shop at Sainsburys anyway we decided to just pick this one up and try Sainsbury's own brand version of what we'd been used to drinking.
The packaging is nothing special, just the sort of bottle you'd expect for any container of squash. You can get it in all sorts of different sizes, it becomes cheaper by the litre when you buy the bigger bottles as you'd expect, so it would make sense to buy the biggest bottle always if you were going to be constantly drinking it since it doesn't have much of a use by date. However we bought a more average size bottle of 750ml, although a 3L version was available because we hadn't decided about it yet.
One of the bad points about this product for me has to be the double strength aspect of it, Sainsbury's don't actually do any normal concentrate squash products so we basically had no choice but to get double concentrate. With double concentrate I always seem to end up making the proportion of juice to water wrong and ending up too strong!
As for the taste, its certainly not as nice as the previous one we had. It tastes quite fake, there's not much orange there! it's not really a pleasant taste and while I'd drink it if I was thirsty, I don't think we will be buying it again, looks like we'll be switching to Robinsons! However on the good side, it was only about 80p for the 750ml bottle, which is equivalent to 1.5l of normal juice.
Summary: Wouldn't buy again
