Odwalla-Superfood or Superfake?

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Catchy title. I've been drinking this stuff for a week now and it's...expensive and green. Is it all it claims to be? It's stacked full of carbs, you know...

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

in my consulting days, i drank this in front of my client and he remarked that it looked like pond scum. i told him it tasted a little bit better.

but yeah open cell chlorella is good.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I drink soy milk now, too! It's not that bad!

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

soy milk is amazing, at least if it's flavored.
odwalla pales in comparison to fresh samantha's, but you can't get those in sf. i enjoy having them occasionally, it seems like an expensive racket.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Soy milk is ideal for coffee, imo. The little bit of hey-this-is-soy-milk-not-milk-milk taste that you get actually goes with coffee better than dairy.

Odwalla Superfood is made with spirulina, isn't it? My father swears by it; he's insane, but he often seems to be right about nutritional things. The girlfriend's allergic to it, and I can't stand the taste/texture, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and yeah, Samantha's ... are they the ones who do fresh-squeezed honey tangerine juice? If so, kickass; can't get em here, either, but they were ubiquitous in New Orleans.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i like rice milk for hot coffee, as soy milk breaks up in heat and looks real nasty.
fresh samantha makes tangerine juice, but i think you can only get their products in the ny metro area.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That can't be, I've never been in the NY Metro area ... oh, here we go. They started in Maine, relocated to California, were bought by Odwalla, and have since merged with them. Drat.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

does fresh samantha offer their tangerine juice only in 6 month intervals?

also: did you ever find your curry squid cheetos?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to drink these Nantucket Nectar Supernectar things that had spirulina in them and I used to call it "pond scum", especially once it started freaking my coworkers out.

Man, those were good. And scummy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

no joy with the cheetos. sigh.
not sure about the tangerine juice... i'm not a big juice drinker except for the occasional green spirulina thing when i'm feeling particulary damaged.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the pond scum stuff supposed to do, besides freak people out?

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

It's chock-full of antioxidants, B-12, and absorbable iron, and if you eat enough of it, the Body Snatchers will think you're one of them.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 20 October 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Most Odwalla flavors used to be completely unpasteurized until someone got sick on their orange juice... Now they pasteurize everything which um kills[?] a lot[?] of the live[?] thingies[?]. Something like that.

― Aaron A., Monday, 20 October 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Odwalla is named after an Art Ensemble of Chicago tune.

― hstencil, Monday, 20 October 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Samantha(Notice how they stopped using the word "fresh") and Odwalla are both owned by Coke..so much for the real thing

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 20 October 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I like these juices -- Fantasia is another basically similar brand -- but a lot of them seem incredibly high in sugar for being supposedly "healthy." The green-colored ones are the best, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 October 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

coca-cola has purchased odwalla, fyi

― jameslucasakarroland (jameslucasakarroland), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, it was stated upthread. almost 2 years ago, at that.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i just get soo excited when i know something....duh back to excel dummy bean counter

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Crazy, man, crazy!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris, have you gone all "jazz" on us "cats"?

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Gygax has.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I don't know anywmore.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Grainassance (sp?) Amazake green drink is better tasting.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I try to stay away from anything with soy protein isolate in it, since it's not very digestible and kind of scarey.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

And I've gone back to eating some soy again for the sake of losing some weight.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This stuff just makes me feel weird and sick now.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

POY BOMBX

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.pomwonderful.com/recipes/img/pomosa_title.gif

http://www.pomwonderfulstore.com/

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this shit about soy or rice milk in coffee? I loves me some soy milk, but coffee should be had black.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(from 1999) Odwalla Inc., the company whose E. coli-tainted apple juice killed a baby girl and sickened dozens of others in 1996, pleaded guilty to criminal charges and will pay a $1.5 million fine.

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9807/24/odwalla.plea/

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i love superfood! jerusalem artichoke, baby!

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

RIP

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 23:28 (five years ago)

dammit

― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:09 (five years ago)

RIP, company that produced probably 50% of my non-intoxicating collegiate ingestibles.

― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 03:36 (five years ago)

they pasteurize everything which um kills[?] a lot[?] of the live[?] thingies[?].

― j., Wednesday, 8 July 2020 03:42 (five years ago)

Odwalla is named after an Art Ensemble of Chicago tune.
― hstencil, Monday, October 20, 2003 2:28 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait really ?

The name for their start-up, "Odwalla", was taken from that of a character who guided "the people of the sun" out of the "gray haze" in the song-poem "Illistrum", a favorite of the founders, which was composed by Roscoe Mitchell and performed by the Art Ensemble of Chicago jazz group, of which Mitchell was a member.[6][7] Steltenpohl, Percy, and Bassett related this to their products, which they believe "help humans break free from the dull mass of over-processed foods so prevalent today".[8]

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 03:47 (five years ago)

true -- my friend worked for them at the beginning and is a free jazz / improv dude -- he's a copywriter / design guy

― sarahell, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:03 (five years ago)

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