writhaus

It all started about three years ago. I was having headaches every day and couldn’t figure out what was causing them. After months of wondering (and being too stupid to just see a doctor), I self-diagnosed that it was all the damn Cokes I was drinking. Amazingly, when I cut the caffeine, the headaches went away and haven’t returned. Thus began my forray into being healthier.

Now I try to shop better. I know there are a lot of things that are nearly impossible to get around such as high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), but I try my best. I found one variety of one brand of bread that had no HFCS. I drink mostly water, and I try to buy the purest juice I can find, as opposed to “juice drink.”

Last week, I saw and bought Ocean Spray’s 100% Juice: Cranberry. The packaging proudly proclaims that there has been no sugar added, although the fine print tells you it’s “cranberry-flavored juice sweetened with another juice from concentrate with added Vitamin C.” A nice disclosure, but still, I checked the ingredients. The juice from concentrate is grape. Ascorbic acid was added for the Vitamin C content. Ocean Spray is a company all about cranberries, so I bought a couple of containers and made my way home.

After it chilled overnight, I took my first drink yesterday. It had quite the pleasing taste, although the back end of it is quite tart, almost earwax-level tart. That isn’t to say the taste is bad. After you acclimate to it, the taste is quite enjoyable. The juice also mixes well with other juices as you would expect, because Ocean Spray blends cranberries with just about everything.

While I am sure there are other brands that aren’t sweetened at all, I find this less-manufactured cranberry juice to be quite tasty. I recommend it if you find it for a decent price.