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Who among us hasn\u2019t been sitting around eating a fistful of Starburst when the thought suddenly occurred \u2014 \u201cThis candy is great and all, but what I\u2019d really like to be doing is drinking it\u201d? Well, friends, the good people at Sparkling Ice have read your mind (don\u2019t ask why they were there to begin with; you don\u2019t want to know) and are here with a solution: new Starburst-flavored Sparkling Ice.<\/p>\n
If you don\u2019t know Sparkling Ice, it is the primary product offering from Washington State\u2019s Talking Rain beverage company, which started in 1987 and had roughly $500 million in retail sales in 2019. (I couldn\u2019t find more recent sales figures; its website DOES have an extensive FAQ section, however, with real think pieces like, \u201cWhy did strawberry kiwi turn pink?\u201d \u201cIs the color safe?\u201d \u201cIs Sparkling Ice vegan?\u201d and \u201cIs it normal to have sediment floating in my Sparkling Ice?\u201d)<\/p>\n
And if you don\u2019t know Starburst\u2026 that\u2019s just weird.<\/p>\n
So, does the low-calorie drink accurately capture its chewy sugar cube inspiration? As an avid fan of regular Sparkling Ice products, I was eager to find out.<\/p>\n
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This was the first one I had, and it was the worst. The taste was somewhere between \u201ccitrus aspirin\u201d and an orange-Flintstone vitamin that\u2019d been dusted with a heaping of artificial sweetener. The very first part of the drink made me go, \u201cHey, this tastes like an orange Starburst,\u201d but everything after made me want to rinse my mouth out with paint thinner. Here\u2019s the deal with artificial sweetener \u2014 I have no issue with it. Regular Sparkling Ice has it, and I\u2019m a staunchly Zero\/Diet guy when it comes to soda. But this was SO bad that it reminded me of being young and first trying Diet Coke, back when it just tasted like poison to a palate honed on only the finest real sugar cane (or, you know, high fructose corn syrup). In any case, I had no desire to drink more than two sips of this.<\/p>\n
Though my first thought when I poured this one into the glass was, \u201cWelp, this looks a little like urine,\u201d I had it immediately after Orange, so, you know, there was nowhere to go but up. It managed to taste like its namesake flavor all the way through and had a fraction of the Sucralose taste, which earned it a second-place finish overall.<\/p>\n
It tasted like a cherry Starburst, but it also managed to fall somewhere in the middle of the prior two in terms of the artificial sweetener taste. I also caught subtle cough syrup notes, which didn\u2019t help my enjoyment. (Come to think of it, the actual cherry Starbursts sort of have that medicinal taste, too. So they really nailed the flavor on this one.)<\/p>\n
Everyone knows that the pink Starburst is the best Starburst, case closed. (Out of the original flavors, that is. Tropical and Baja varieties really muck up the overall rankings with their deliciousness.) This, too, was the best Starburst Sparkling Ice. It captured the candy\u2019s essence well but was once again marred by the sweetener. While it didn\u2019t reach Orange levels of intolerability, it was still more noticeable than the Lemon kind.<\/p>\n
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In the end, I was surprised by how much I disliked these. The heavy application of Sucralose kept them from being anything I\u2019d feel the need to purchase again. I\u2019ll stick with regular Sparkling Ices and pilfer the Starburst two-packs from my daughter\u2019s Halloween candy.<\/p>\n
Purchased Price:<\/strong> $1.19 (each) Who among us hasn\u2019t been sitting around eating a fistful of Starburst when the thought suddenly occurred \u2014 \u201cThis candy is great and all, but what I\u2019d really like to be doing is drinking it\u201d? Well, friends, the good people at Sparkling Ice have read your mind (don\u2019t ask why they were there to begin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1686,1934,1712],"class_list":["post-61188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-sparkling-ice","tag-sparkling-water","tag-starburst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68539,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/14\/spotted-sparkling-ice-starburst-watermelon-sparkling-water\/","url_meta":{"origin":61188,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED: Sparkling Ice Starburst Watermelon Sparkling Water","author":"Marvo","date":"March 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"With Starburst Watermelon out of the way, maybe Starburst Lime should be next? 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\nSize:<\/strong> 17 oz bottles
\nPurchased at:<\/strong> Target
\nRating:<\/strong> 1 out of 10 (Orange), 3 out of 10 (Lemon), 4 out of 10 (Cherry), 5 out of 10 (Strawberry)
\nNutrition Facts:<\/strong> (1 bottle) 5 calories, 0 grams of fat, 0 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 0 milligrams of sodium, 0grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 0 grams of total sugars, and 0 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"