Vitamin Water > Life Water

Hippie juice makers Sobe recently entered the lucrative "enhanced bottled water" arena, looking to get a piece of Glaceau's mighty Vitamin Water empire.

Last night for the Super Bowl they spent a ton of money for a long, pointless commercial spot featuring Naomi Campbell and a bunch of CGI lizards dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller. Sobe also sponsored the halftime show report.

They should have used that money on making a better product.

I've seen Sobe's Life Water in stores but never bought any until just recently when Target was practically giving it away at 50 cents per bottle.  The colors and flavors are similar to what Vitamin Water offers, but looking at the labels I noticed two distinct differences.  The first is that Life Water contains slightly less sugar than Vitamin Water does, which can be good news for those of you counting calories or watching your sugar intake.  The second is that Life Water contains sodium (Vitamin Water is sodium-free).

And even though it might be a negligable amount of sodium, Life Water has a bit of a salty taste to me.  Other than that, it tastes like watered down Kool-Aid that wasn't mixed with enough sugar.  Some of the flavors are tolerable, but none are particularly enjoyable.  I'll be sticking with Glaceau's product.  Sorry hippies.

Comments

[anonymousfriend]

I'll stick with plain old tap water. Yes, I drink tap water. Sometimes with fresh lemon, most of the time without.

[a]

I disagree.

Life Water is far better than Vitamin Water.

Our office of 8 agrees. It goes Life Water, the New G2 (Gatorade Product), then Vitamin Water.

[Chuck]

G2 contains artifical sweeteners. I am allergic to artificial sweeteners. Therefore G2 will never be an option.