Fuze

There was a big stink here in Canada not too long ago because the licensing agreements for Nestea changed, so it was discontinued by Coca Cola and replaced with Fuze. Except the formulations for the teas are IDENTICAL – it’s just the branding that’s different/new.

But of course even if you take the same drink and slap a new label on it people are convinced that there’s been a change. I recently tried this next to the Nestea version, though, and at least to me I found absolutely no perceivable taste difference. It’s just as sweet as ever, with the same exact raspberry flavouring…

Ditto for all the other Fuze flavours that are now evveeerryyywheeerrree in Canada instead of their Nestea counterparts.

Gave up drinking commercial ice tea years ago, as I most often don´t identify any good tea in them. Op top of that, they are almost always way too sweet(ened) so they don´t really quench your thirst. Therefore, I didn´t know this brand, and I don´t know either whether it had a proper product line before entering teh Coca Cola group. Anyway, this bottle was part of a pack of products I got at a low price at ny supermarket, so obviously, I tasted it. Honnestly, I had feared worse ;-) Yes, it´s very sweet (how they dare to fool us saying it is “low in calories”!!!), the peach stands out and you can even tell the black tea backbone, but I´ll stick to my home made ice teas, thank you!

There’s a caveat to my recommendation, and that is, I would recommend this as a tea, if Fuze canned teas were one of the few things around that weren’t water for you to drink. In my case, the lemon one is probably more enticing than this one, but I don’t see that listed on the site. At any rate, I will sometimes get one of these while at work, because they’re readily available in the refrigerators here. It is good, but it is also a canned drink. So perhaps there are tea snobs that won’t find it quite like the tea experience they prefer. Either way, I am drinking one now, so I felt it was fitting to leave a review to say, it is cold and fine to drink, but it’s not something you might fawn over.

I’m not actually sure this counts as tea. Technically it is a black tea base, but I suspect for ease of service they use tea concentrate and flavours rather than actually brewing the tea.

Very sweet (I normally use no sweetener, so this was too much for me), raspberry flavour. Very little of the tea base was tastable, unfortunately.

Grabbed this w/ my flat bread sandwhich quick while running around like a chicken w/ my head chopped off shopping for a few last things for my vacation tomorrow.

W/ an Italian BMT w/ extra pickle, lettuce, chipotle southwest dressing, and lite ranch. Toasted.

I had this @ Subway today w/ my sub. Didn’t loook at the cup, but I think this might have both green and black tea in it. The tea itself is just your basic unsweetened iced tea, but this gets a 100 from me because it’s rare I can get unsweetened iced tea when I go out to eat.