Coconut is a least favorite soft drink flavor of mine; beverages historically double-up on the artificial stuff, giving imbibes a taste best described as "suntan lotion." Could Mtn Dew break the curse? Who knows, but their presentation certainly helps. There is a fun surfer theme to the small real estate offered by the thin label, with its branding large and easy to read.
The scent wafting out of from the golden yellow elixir is nothing but horrific- heavy on the coconut and ignoring the pineapple, the other fruit allegedly involved. Sips are heavy and gummy, the seventy three grams of high fructose corn syrup rendering the experience practically unpalatable; the turgid texture crawling across your palate like chilled maple syrup. Your tongue forces the fluid along, coating every corner of your mouth in a desperate effort to move things along. Somehow though, even with almost 150% of your daily recommended intake of sugar, the formulators felt inclined to include sucralose as well, but the synthetic sweetener only makes an already excruciatingly saccharine system even sweeter! Some tartness, a stronger effervescence, something was needed to break up the grody monotony, but shamefully, Mtn Dew offers no such relief.
No one expects soda to be healthy, and it is not. That is fine though, in moderation of course, and especially when there is 280 calories and all those aforesaid carbohydrates. For us energy-hounds, we get a pleasant ninety two milligrams of caffeine, a perfectly fine amount considering that this is not an energy drink. Overall, Mtn Dew Baja Flash flexes no finesse, creativity or restraint.
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