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Sodastream Beats Coca Cola in Live CNBC Taste Test

How do soft drinks taste when they’re made with the Sodastream Home Soda Fountain? Sodastream ads claim you can make carbonated soft drinks at home that are just as fizzy and taste as good as soda soft drinks you buy at the grocery store or get from a vending machine.

A blind taste test is a good way to find out if the ads are truthful – but has anyone done one? The answer is yes, and the results were impressive. In fact, it was “no contest” in a blind taste test conducted by anchors on CNBC, a cable financial network. Anchors Jim Cramer and Herb Greenberg compared drinks made with a Sodastream home fountain jet to cans of Coca Cola and ginger ale they bought moments before from the CNBC break room vending machine.

Sodastream has unveiled a new dispenser, which is designed by Italy’s Stefano Giovanni. The company says that the Aqua Bar will “redefine the way we use water in the kitchen”.

The Aqua Bar is a plumbed-in, plugged-in counter-top machine which caters to a full range of home water needs. It dispenses purified and filtered sparkling, hot, cold and ambient water. Aqua Bar will preview at Giovanni’s studio in Milan on April 17, as part of the annual Salone International del Mobile design exhibition.

Sodastream CEO Daniel Birnbaum said, “I’m very excited about the Aqua Bar, which will change our everyday water habits by providing the most convenient way to enjoy water. For the first time, SodaStream is offering a fully integrated water station that fulfils all of our water needs – ambient, hot, cold and sparkling – all from purified and filtered water. The combination of this functionality with Stephano’s stunning design results in a product that everyone would love to have in their kitchen. The Aqua Bar is an important step towards SodaStream’s ultimate solution of a single-serve system that delivers soda at the push of a button.”

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The Best SodaStream Flavors Reviewed

While some users of the SodaStream home carbonators are content to whip up their own drink flavors, others would rather use premixed syrups for convenience. SodaStream makes several such flavor syrups, which can be added to carbonated water for quick sodas.

The concentrated nature of these syrups means that you can get a surprising number of drinks out of a small bottle of syrup (assuming you use the recommended amount of flavoring per liter of water, that is). For example, a 500ml bottle of soda mix will typically get you around 33 cans’ worth of flavored soda. That’s 12 liters, which means that even with the cost of a flavor mix bottle factored in, making your own soda at home remains fairly low-cost—all while giving you (in most cases) fewer calories and less sugar or aspartame.

There are caveats to that, of course. Most of the diet and sugar-free flavors use Splenda, so you won’t enjoy them if you’re not a fan of that sweetener. Not all of them are naturally flavored; that’s another consideration if you’d prefer to avoid the artificially flavored drinks.

The best SodaStream flavors are all fruit-based and make for great alternatives to store-bought soda. Below we take a look at a few of them to see their good and bad points. Remember this, though: tastes—perhaps for food and drink more than anything else—always vary. So, what we say here might not be what you end up saying when you try the drinks yourself. Still, our findings were the ones we found commonly held in our group during taste testing, so they’re not just the reviews of one person.

The Ocean Spray flavor from SodaStream is an alternative for people who want to enjoy the Ocean Spray Cranberry Raspberry drink at their convenience without worrying about having to stock it at home or making a beeline to the store every time they want to lift their spirits It combines a tangy and sweet taste to add some fizzle to your beverages and cocktails for an interesting and appealingly colored mix. Like most of the other flavors, it can be purchased in 500ml syrup bottles that make around 12L of cranberry raspberry soda.

Pros:

One of the flavors widely acknowledged to taste closest to the original flavor profile

Does not leave a Splenda aftertaste

Concentrated and is effective at 50-75% of the recommended serving

Cons:

Some may find the raspberry flavor ‘lighter’ than expected

May cause the drink to run flat at times

Most people who have tried this flavor have been hooked to it and you very likely will as well, especially if you happen to like your drinks a bit on the tart side. This is because of the more prominent cranberry taste in this flavor.

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SodaStream Review

I just recently bought a SodaStream.  It is one of the best kitchen appliances I have ever owned. Making home soda with my SodaStream is easy, saves money, saves the environment, and is healthier. It is easy for me to give a great SodaStream Review because I love my SodaStream products.

 Easy to Use and No Cleanup

The SodaStream is so easy to use and there is nothing to clean up! You simply turn tap water into carbonated water by filling the bottle to the indicated place with tap or distilled water.

You can fizz to your taste and the flavor of your choice. The average number of times to press the button on the SodaStream is three; I like to press it four times to make my soda a little fizzier.

A SodaStream Review of the many flavors of soda mixes to choose from include the following:

Regular Flavors:

Cola, Cherry Cola, Lemon-Lime, Orange, Root Beer, Fountain Mist, Dr. Pete (compared to Dr. Pepper), Cream Soda, Ginger Ale, Grape, Orange Mango, Energy, Cranberry Raspberry, Green Tea, Tonic, Lemon Iced Tea, Peach Iced Tea and Lemonade.

 Diet Flavors:

 Cola, Cola Free, Orange, Cola Caffeine Free, Cranberry Raspberry, Pink Grapefruit, Root Beet, Ginger Ale, Lemonade, Tonic, Lemon Lime, Lemon Iced Tea, Dr. Pete, Peach Iced Tea, Cream Soda, and Fountain Mist.

Sparkling Natural Flavors

There are also flavors of SodaStream that are available for those who prefer not to drink soda. The Sparkling Natural flavors include Apple Mango, Black Currant Pear, Cola, Ginger Ale, Lemon Lime, Orange Pineapple, Pink Grapefruit and Ginger Ale.

The My Water Essence Flavors include Mint, Lemon Lime, Orange, Berry, and a Variety 3-pack. You can also use SodaStream without any flavor by just using the SodaStream to carbonate water – this makes great sparkling water!

Soda Stream Review of Favorite Flavors:

My favorite flavors are the Diet Lemon Lime, Diet Ginger Ale, Orange, and Diet Orange. Before SodaStream, I always tried to keep a two liter bottle of Ginger Ale in the house for times I felt nauseated. Before I would drink all of the Ginger Ale in the two-liter bottle, it would go flat.

Now I keep a bottle of the SodaStream Diet Ginger Ale at home and I can make only a half-liter or liter at a time. A SodaSteam review of the Ginger Ale soda mix is great – better than what I have ever bought in stores in the past.

Easy for Soda to Remain Fizzy

All of the SodaStream soda mixes last for about two weeks in the refrigerator and remain fizzy. One thing that I have discovered that I can do with my SodaStream machine is re-fizz my soda. If the soda does go flat, I have been able to place the bottle back on the machine and press the button one time and my soda is fizzy again!

Healthy for Everyone – Including Diabetics, Dieters, and Health-Conscious Individuals

I am a health-conscious person.  I try to eat healthy and exercise.  Before SodaStream, I always drank diet soda instead of regular soda because I wanted to limit my sugar. I don’t feel guilty now when I want a regular soda with SodaStream, since there are 2/3 less sugar, carbs, calories, and sodium than pre-prepared soda.

I prefer the diet soda mixes most of the time and they are healthier too – SodaStream diet flavors contain no aspartame and are made with Splenda. A SodaStream review from many individual customers raves about the health aspects of SodaStream mixes.

SodaStream Review of How SodaSteam Saves Money

I have saved a lot of money on soda, energy drinks, and flavored water since buying the SodaStream. For a can-size serving, the cost averages about 25 cents compared to 42 cents or more for a can of soda you purchase in stores.

One bottle of SodaStream mix makes 12 liters of Soda or the equivalent of 36 cans. The bottle of soda mix currently sells for only $4.99 a bottle at stores such as Kitchen Collection, Kohls, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

You can also order soda mixes from the SodaStream website. I only have a family of three and see the cost savings; there would be a more significant savings for larger families.

Help Save the Environment

There are no cans or bottles to carry home from the store or throw away. You can wash and reuse the same bottles over and over.

Space-Saving

I have the SodaStream Fountain Jet for my home and the SodaStream Genesis at my office. Both take very little space and require no power! The SodaStream machines operate with a carbonator that fits in the SodaStream machines.

 I have a small kitchen at home and at the office; both of these machines require little room. Either one would be great for those with small homes or apartments; they are also great to use in RVs and boats.

I cannot say enough good things about my SodaStream Fountain Jet and Genesis; I use my SodaStream Fountain Jet each day at home and my co-workers and I use the Genesis every week day at the office.