Time for more Mountain Dew! And it's flavored with my favorite flavor! Pineapple! Not to be confused with Maui Burst Mountain Dew, Baja Flash Mountain Dew, or Tropical Sunrise Mountain Dew, which are all also flavored with Pineapple. This particular version is called Infinite Swirl Mountain Dew and is flavored with Pineapple Berry Flavor.
Infinite Swirl Mountain Dew is also exclusive to 7-11 and I had no luck finding it at the stores I visited. Luckily Patrick was able to pick something up at the 7-11 near him!
(gotta wear the proper shorts for a taste test like this!)
We've previously had Pineapple Pepsi from Little Caesars, but this year, they're selling them in bottles!
And finally, there's Jupiña pineapple soda that we found in the international section of the grocery store.
Infinite Swirl - Dew with a blast of artificial pineapple berry flavor.
The color is a pale ocean blue color.
Patrick - It looks like Listerine.
The font reminds me of water.
On the label we see a pineapple rocket that is blasting through a swirling vortex.
And on the other side, slices of pineapple.
Patrick - I don't see any berries. Where are the berries? Wait. Is a pineapple a berry?
After a quick google search it appears that... yes! A pineapple is technically a berry! It is made up of the fusion of many flowers, where multiple unpollinated berries fuse together to form a single fruit!
Theresa - It tastes better than the color looks.
Megan - It's not bad.
Sheila - It has an aftertaste.
Theresa - I don't know if I would call it pineapple.
Joe - Me either. It's very much berry.
Theresa - Some artificial berriness going on.
Alli - It has berry at the beginning and a pineapple aftertaste.
Joe - It's not my favorite.
Patrick - I like the color though.
Alli - I get the littlest hint of pineapple.
Ian - I taste cinnamon on that.
Mickey - I think you're right Ian.
Avery - I get cinnamon scent and taste.
Joe - I like it. I taste the pineapple
Theresa - I think it tastes fine.
Mickey - I get more cinnamon than pineapple.
Megan - Is that just the taste of Pepsi?
Looking over the ingredients, I don't see anything about juice. But we'll see how this going.
Avery - It's Pineapplely!
Ian - Yum! Yum! Yum! Like a pineapple cream soda!
Mickey - That's pineapple juice.
Joe - It's like a dark pineapple soda.
Megan - Ooooh!
Sheila - That's delicious.
Theresa - Yes Ian. Like pineapple cream soda. That's good!
Megan - That's super good. Let's go buy more. It's so good.
Joe - That's definitely my favorite out of the three.
Theresa - Wow! Look at the calories! That's the most calories I've ever seen in a 12 oz soda! 210 calories!
For reference, Mountain Dew has 170 calories in 12 oz, Coke has 140 calories.
Polling the entire room, every single person liked the Jupina the best out of all three of these. It was delicious!
Megan - We need to have a Jupina taste test!
Joe - Do they make other flavors?
A little research shows that this is a Cuban brand from a company called Cawy. They do indeed make other sodas including Jupina (pineapple), Diet Jupina (pineapple), Cawy Lemon Lime, Materva (yerba mate flavor), Malta (like beer but non-alcoholic), Champ's Cola (cola with a fruit infusion), Watermelon, Coco Solo (coconut), and Rica (orange mandarin flavor). After how good this was, I want to try them all!
The "no-name" brand, Jupina, wins the pineapple-tasting soda contest over the heavy weights :-) A pineapple cream soda taste does sound inviting; much better than the berry or cinnamon flavor from the other two! Looks like a newly-discovered taste test is in the cards :-) Those pineapple shorts perfectly matched the taste test...colorful and tropical. EOM
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