Welch's 100 percent natural "Tropicals" are fruit juice drinks that can be found in the frozen food section. Available in pineapple-banana, orange-pineapple and a combination featuring passion fruit, the juice retails for $1.17.
Kay Hadley: "What a nice combination - apple, orange and pineapple juice! Welch's has created a tasty and refreshing new drink. Tropicals is not 100 percent unsweetened fruit juice but is classified as a fruit drink because it contains sugar and corn syrup. We think it is delicious anyway."Doris Wilding: "We tested the passion fruit flavor, and the entire family gave it a thumbs up! We are juice lovers anyway in our family so we are always looking for new varieties, and this one is great. I have already looked for it at our grocers, but it isn't there yet."
Edyth Jensen: "We tried the three-juice mix, the one with the passion fruit juice in, and really enjoyed it. It is just tangy enough to be interesting. The flavor and the aroma is really nice. It is quite expensive, but would be nice for a change of taste now and again."
Linda C. Tingey: "We had banana-pineapple, and that combination does not go together! My kids' first comment was `yuck!' Guess we're just orange-juice drinkers."
Conclusion: While Don Russell and Judy Slack Hedrick did not test this product because of glitches in delivery, the vote was three to one from the rest of the panel in favor of these new juice flavors. Perhaps only real banana-lovers should buy the banana-pineapple flavor.
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