well, i can tell you this much: Juicy Jucie is not, i repeat not, 100% juice for 100% kids. it’s 100% crap for poor kids with underdeveloped taste buds. blech! in my never-ending quest to find the perfect fruit punch, i picked up a jug of Juicy Juice Punch (that’s what they call it, they are too afraid in the truth in labeling act to actually put the word “fruit” in front of the punch).

i had high hopes when i poured my first glass. it smelled delightful and the color was much, much more robust than my beloved Hi-C Fruit Punch, but not quite as cheery as the ol’ Hawaiian Punch. i suppose the color should have been the first clue. it looked suspiciously like cran-apple juice (oh, the horror!). but i kept an open mind, i need to be objective here. all my hopes were dashed the minute the Juicy Juice landed on my tongue. where was the fruit-flavor? where was the juice? this doesn’t taste like juice at all, much less a pleasing concoction of wonderful fruit juices that most often make up punch. no this tastes like. . . well, i can’t quite figure out what it tastes like– but sure as hell ain’t any sort of fruit juice. well, at least not the juice of any fruit i’ve ever heard of. so, there you have it. Juicy Juice is 100% disappointment. good thing i bought an entire gallon of Hi-C Fruit Punch too.