It's time for another taste test! Today we're trying AriZona Fruit Snack Gummies! We've previously tried a whole bunch of their different AriZona Tea drinks, but didn't care for any of them too much. Let's see if these gummies can do better!
Today we'll be trying the AriZona Green Tea Fruit Snacks, AriZona Mix Fruit Fruit Snacks, and the AriZona Arnold Palmer Half and Half Fruit Snacks.
And it's not just one flavor in the bag either. Each of these bags has multiple flavors with different colors in it!
There's the Green Tea flavors.
With Original (Green Tea flavor), Apple, Mandarin, and Plum Blueberry.
I can make some guesses about which flavor is which.
Then we move on to the Mixed Fruit Fruit Snacks. I was basing my drink selection on the packaging color. I should have looked a little closer at the actual flavors that were inside the bag.
Because the gummies are flavored like Fruit Punch, Mucho Mango, Watermelon, Grapeade, and Orangeade.
These are a little bit more difficult to suss out which flavor is which. There are different shades of Orange there, but some of them are subtle. Do you see 5 different shades?
Last but not least is the Arnold Palmer Fruit Snacks. It was pretty obvious which drink to get to go with these.
On the back, we see that there's four flavors. Original (lemonade and tea I assume), Strawberry, Mango, and Peach.
As for the colors... Uh. Yeah. Good luck picking out which one is which.
I do have to say though, great job using some very interesting molds for the shapes. They could have gone with generic circles or ovals, but instead we have a mini can shape with "AriZona" printed on the front and even a tab for the top of the can!
There's also this tribal design that matches the graphic that AriZona puts on many of their cans. Props for that.
But with all that out of the way, now it's time to finally taste them!
Starting with the Arizona Green Tea flavored fruit snacks.
Separated as best as I can hope for.
Joe - Has anyone ever had a green tea gummy before?
The kids tried their best to separate things. Think the Green Tea Original is the greenish one?
Alli - This tastes like Green Apple.
Ian - It's delicious!
Megan - I like it.
Sheila - That tastes good. It can't be green tea.
Avery - Delicious, delicious, delicious.
Joe - Let's try what we're guessing is blueberry.
Alli - I think it's blueberry.
Alli - The redder one is original.
Joe - What does it taste like?
Alli - A fruit snack.
Joe - And the other one is orange?
Alli - Yep! It's good.
Patrick - This is probably my favorite Green Tea. I could drink those all day.
Alli - I don't think I like it.
Next, we'll try the bag of Mix Fruit with flavors like Fruit Punch, Mucho Mango, Watermelon, Grapeade, and Orangeade.
Joe - Well there's 5 flavors here. Good luck telling them apart. Just try one and give me your thoughts. Megan - I don't know what I just tasted but it's weird. It tasted like dust. Like dusty fruit.
Patrick - I just had either an orange or mango.
Megan - Ooh that one was watermelon. It wsa like Jolly Rancher watermelon. I don't like it, but Patrick would.
Patrick- Yes! That tasted good.
Alli - Ooh, I like Orange!
Theresa - Mango has an interesting... Maybe a mint something.
Ian - Watermelon was the best.
Mickey - They were all good.
And now for the tea. It was good.
Sheila - It was just so so.
Time for the Arnold Palmer Half & Half gummies.
Joe - This whole pile of brown is supposed to be 4 different flavors. 
Patrick - Sweetened or unsweetened?
Alli - I think this is Peach! It was good!
Avery - It's delicious.
Ian - They are good! Mine tasted like Mango.
Megan - I just had one. They're super good. I think my first one was peach and it was good.
Theresa - I don't know what I'm eating, but they're yummy. I think mine was peach too.
Megan - I think it's the Original I don't like.
Joe - I like the Strawberry one.
Theresa - One of those was disgusting. It tasted like men's cologne. I didn't like that bag. Some were good and some were really bad.
Joe - Why are you holding your nose?
Ian - Because that last one was terrible.
Mickey - Do you know what Arnold Palmer was? What he did?
Ian - Discovered Arizona?
Megan - Discovered Colorado? We have a Palmer Park.
Mickey - He was a golfer.
Theresa - The best bag is the Mixed Fruit.
Let's take a vote!
Green Tea Fruit Snacks - Patrick, Ian, Megan
Mixed Fruit Fruit Snacks - Theresa, Alli, Avery, Sheila, Mickey, Joe
Arnold Palmer Fruit Snacks - no one
What about the drinks?
AriZona Green Tea - Patrick, Megan, Ian, Avery
AriZona Iced Tea with Lemon - Alli, Sheila, Joe, Mickey, Theresa
AriZona Arnold Palmer - no one
It was a mix between liking the drinks or the fruit snacks better.
If you're feeling adventurous, pick up a bag of AriZona Fruit Snacks, but good luck figuring out which flavors you're eating ahead of time!
It's like doing a blind taste test...grab a gummy from the bag and try to guess what flavor you have! Very interesting that there's multiple flavors in a bag since at first glance (when looking at the candy packaging vs the can) I thought only 1 flavor would be in the bag. With the multiple flavors it makes things more interesting and tasty (except if it "tasted like men's cologne"! :-) ) Definitely a "mixed bag" in this taste test between the tea and the fruit snacks. EOM
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