{"id":5100,"date":"2009-10-29T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:00:29","slug":"review-odwalla-wholly-grain-tropical-medley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/29\/review-odwalla-wholly-grain-tropical-medley\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Odwalla Wholly Grain! Tropical Medley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/4054213926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;padding-left:10px;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/odwallagrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drab color of the Odwalla Wholly Grain! Tropical Medley fruit smoothie doesn&#8217;t make me want to drink it, instead I want to use it as a color swatch to help me decide which hue of paint I should use if I ever need to repaint the inner walls of a correctional facility or mental institution.<\/p>\n<p>Odwalla fruit smoothies usually come in vibrant colors that one would find on either the NBC Peacock, handkerchiefs coming out of a clown&#8217;s mouth or in any bodily fluid that oozes out of a unicorn.  The colors are so vivacious that they say if you stare at the Odwalla refrigerated case at your grocery store long enough, you&#8217;ll know what rainbows taste like.<\/p>\n<p>What gives the Odwalla Wholly Grain! Tropical Medley its tan color is the whole grain brown rice it contains, which also gives the smoothie almost 32 grams of whole grains or around two-thirds of the recommended 48 grams one should consume daily.  <\/p>\n<p>This fruit smoothie is perfect if you ever want to attempt to overdose on whole grains to see what the effects are.  Drinking a few of these along with some whole wheat bread and a bowl of a whole grain-fortified kids breakfast cereal will help you do it.  I personally have never ODed on whole grains, but I imagine it takes your dreams, wipes away all of the color and then gives them a brown hue&#8230;and maybe constant bowel movements.<\/p>\n<p>Because of its color, that makes me think I&#8217;m drinking liquid whole wheat bread, I recommend consuming it with your eyes closed, or if you have one available, cover your eyes with a pink sleep mask that has &#8220;Beauty Sleep&#8221; embroidered on it.  But if you can get past its color, and enjoy tropical fruits like pineapples, mangoes, bananas and passion fruits, then you will probably enjoy the Odwalla Wholly Grain! Tropical Medley.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, it doesn&#8217;t smell and taste as dismal as it looks.  While drinking it, I could detect banana, pineapple and orange scents.  As for its flavor, the pineapple and passionfruit stand out the most and I get a little banana and mango at the back end.  It definitely has a tasty &#8220;tropical&#8221; flavor to it.  Coconut is also listed in the ingredients, but I couldn&#8217;t detect any.  I also couldn&#8217;t make out any of the whole grain rice flavor, which, now that I think about it, probably doesn&#8217;t have any flavor.  But the whole grain rice does give this fruit smoothie a very slight grittiness and a weird temporary coating in my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re sorely lacking in the whole grains department, the Odwalla Wholly Grain! Tropical Medley will help, although it&#8217;s probably not something you want to drink every day, since it can get really expensive paying $2.50-$4 per bottle and because it might give your dreams a sepia tone.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Nutrition Facts &#8211; 8 ounces &#8211; 200 calories, 1 gram of fat, 25 milligrams of sodium, 350 milligrams of potassium, 45 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of fiber, 27 grams of sugar, 3 grams of protein, 10% vitamin A, 4% calcium, 10% vitamin E, 10% riboflavin, 10% vitamin C, 2% iron and 10% thiamin.)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b> Odwalla Wholly Grain! Tropical Medley<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b> $3.00 (on sale)<br \/>\n<b>Size:<\/b> 15.2 ounces<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b> Safeway<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 6 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b> Tasty tropical flavor.  No whole grain rice flavor.  A bottle contains about two-thirds of your daily recommended amount of whole grains.  Tasting a rainbow.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b>  Has a drab color.  Dreaming in sepia.  Slight grittiness.  Leaves a temporary coating in my mouth.  Overdosing on whole grains.  Constant bowel movements.  An entire bottle has almost 400 calories.  Being in a prison or mental institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drab color of the Odwalla Wholly Grain! Tropical Medley fruit smoothie doesn&#8217;t make me want to drink it, instead I want to use it as a color swatch to help me decide which hue of paint I should use if I ever need to repaint the inner walls of a correctional facility or mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1545,2264],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-beverage","tag-odwalla"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38062,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/25\/spotted-beverage-edition-7-25-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":5100,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED (BEVERAGE EDITION) &#8211; 7\/25\/2019","author":"Marvo","date":"July 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some interesting new beverages found on store shelves by your fellow readers. 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