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If you haven’t tried Spindrift, and you like sparkling water, you need to go buy some. It’s made with real fruit juice and carbonated water—that’s it. And unlike flavored seltzers that have just a twinge of lime or lemon flavor, the juice adds color and a touch of natural sweetness that puts Spindrift a step above the rest. Now that they have 10+ flavors though, we decided to pit them head-to-head to see which cans reigned supreme. I corralled a team of editors, and we got to drinking. Truthfully, I love them all (superfan over here) and would be happy with any. But here are the group’s favorites and least favorites of the day.
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Grapefruit
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Pineapple
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A favorite flavor amongEatingWelleditors, this flavor would taste delicious in a mocktail or with a splash of rum.
Half & Half (Half Tea & Half Lemon)
A bubbly Arnold Palmer that isn’t sweet. This flavor is refreshing, surprising and satisfying. It really tastes like a drink in its own right, not one that was “watered down” with sparkling water. Despite not being sweet, it’s not bitter. We’ll be buying a case to have on hand for hot summer days.
Cranberry Raspberry
This flavor smells like cranberry juice and tastes as if you bought cranberry-raspberry juice and mixed it with sparkling water at home (aka what you see is what you get). Would be great for the holidays as a mocktail or cocktail mixer.
Raspberry Lime
This is a good-looking flavor with a bright pink color that sparkles. The lime helps brighten up the tart raspberry.
Pink Lemonade
Another pretty pink flavor that is fun to pour into a glass, Pink Lemonade is one of our favorites in the flavor department as well. It gets its bright pink hue from hibiscus and a touch of sweetness from cherries.
Strawberry Lemonade
Strawberry-forward, tart and refreshing, there’s a lot to like about this flavor.
Peach Strawberry
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This flavor is super flavorful and fruity, and has a nice tartness. We get more strawberry flavor than peach flavor here, but the overall taste is really nice.
Lime
This flavor—no surprises here—tastes like you squeezed a lime right into some sparkling water. Some people were not fans and felt the lime was either too strong or not strong enough. Personally, I like to suck on lime wedges, so I’m a huge fan of this flavor.
Lemon Limeade
This flavor is more tart and lime-forward than we expected—where’s the lemon?—but we liked that it tasted like real citrus.
Nojito
Unlike the straight-up lime flavor, which had mixed feedback, tasters found the lime flavor to be well-balanced with mint here. We loved this flavor; it tastes like fresh mint but manages to still be nice and subtle.
Lemon
This one is thirst-quenching like lemonade without the sweetness. It reminded us of the pre-squeezed lemon juice you buy versus squeezing a fresh lemon into your drink. Like most of the flavors, it would be delicious in cocktails or mocktails.
Mint Green Tea
It doesn’t get any more refreshing than this Spindrift flavor. Some notes: “I drink mint iced tea a lot in the summer and this is so good!” and “The mint is just the right amount and not too bitter or grassy from the green tea.”
Blood Orange Tangerine
If you like the flavor of blood orange, you’ll like this Spindrift flavor. We found it to be a bit bitter and not as tart, just like a blood orange.
Mango Black Tea
Despite the fruity flavor, the mango was more subtle than expected, and the black tea wasn’t overly bitter. One taster noted that they might like this flavor more than OG Half & Half.
Orange Mango
This flavor may be at the bottom of the list, but it’s still good. We just wanted it to be a bit more juicy. The mango flavor came on stronger than the orange here. We’d still enjoy it at breakfast (it makes a great nonalcoholic sub for mimosas), but we were left wanting just a bit more juice here.
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