Why is Snapple tea so inconsistent in flavor?!
Why is Snapple tea so inconsistent in flavor?
I like lemon Snapple tea, but 1 in 5 tastes lousy. Why is that? Have these people not heard of quality control? Is it, perhaps produced on East coast, and changes in transit en route to WC? Does it change as it ages (short shelf life)? Often when it tastes bad, a lot of sediment is in bottom; sometimes not. Often, when Safeway has a sale...well you guessed it. What's up with Snapple inconsistency?
Answers:
it could be all of those things you mentioned, but I think that primarily, it's the batch of tea that they use. Tea leaves are not a chemical, so each batch will not be the same. The leaves could have been dried differently, from a different region of the world, from a different blend etc. To add to this, the brewing process at Snapple (if they do brew it) could be different. The temp of the water, the length of steeping the tea leaves could be different.
the best thing to do is to brew your own tea, and put it over ice and add sugar. Sugar is not the same as High Fructose Corn syrup.