Mtn Dew VooDew Soda Review

Not wanting to leave a holiday unexploited, Pepsico brings us VooDew, the newest installment in the Mtn Dew line. The concept is pretty cool if unoriginal, with albino "mystery flavored" products being featured on almost every fruity candy brand, but for a soda, this gimmick is rather, well, gimmicky. The packaging though is fine, with all the purples and oranges we think of with Halloween.

No, the flavor is not candy corn, for better or worse. But it is orange flavored, specifically orange creamsicle. It is ungainly saccharine, thanks to seventy three grams of sugar, but that is not what seals the deal here- that is the overarching onslaught of vanilla with each imbibe; this is no doubt what I imagine a melted creamsicle with effervescence jammed into it drinks like, only much, much sweeter. All from high fructose corn syrup, the saccharinity here is perhaps the most unrelentless honeying of the year, contracting the experience into a viscid fright of a potable, sipping like Karo syrup straight from the bottle must be like. Acidity could have cut through this mucilaginous mayhem, but tartness' presence feels more like an obligation to the citrus than an actual intention by Pepsi flavor scientists.

We get ninety one milligrams of caffeine and that is about it- considering all the calories (270), there really should be something worth consuming this clutter for. I am not suggesting they add fiber or anything, but geez, give me some vitamin C, something! Mtn Dew VooDew is the definition of unhealthy soda crap.

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