UPDATE--Coca Cola Buys Honest Tea (scroll down)
As though Enviga (Coca Cola's "calorie-burning" sparkling "tea" drink) wasn't enough...
"Coca-Cola, which owns the orange juice brand, said Wednesday that it is adding a pomegranate-flavored tea and lemonade to the Minute Maid lineup. The new juices will hit store shelves next month."
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/01/31/chips0131.html
Be sure not to confuse it with Republic of Tea's bottled Pomegranate Green Tea, anything by anything by POM, or Honest Tea's Pomegranate White Tea with Acai. Hasn't this been done to death already? And isn't the whole point of drinking multiple things with mega-antioxidants (that's the technical term, I swear) to be HEALTHY? I'm sure Coke has loaded their version with even more sugar than the others on the market. Sigh...
UPDATE
Coke has just bought out 40% of Hosest Tea. I guess this makes the pomegranate tea even more redundant than it was. A previous press release from Honest Tea stated that they were unveiling Jasmine Green Energy Tea and Citrus Decaf Spice (both with superfood cupuaçu (pronounced coo-pwAH-soo)), as well as 64-oz bottles of Mint Green Tea and Mango Acai White Tea. I wonder if these will still be released...
Honest Tea has yet to comment on the sale on their site.
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And I just heard on the news that coke has just bought out some small 'natural' bottled tea company- can't recall the name, but at the time I recalled you reviewing it.
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