On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:09:21 -0800, "Daniel W. Rouse Jr."
> wrote:

>"Terry" > wrote in message
...
>> I am not much of a fruit or vegetable kind of guy.
>> I eat meat and potatoes.
>>
>> A friend suggested those new V8 juices. I still have to force myself
>> to have one, but they are quite good and good for you.
>>
>> Regular V8 tastes like tomato juice but the Fusion drinks are like
>> fruit juice.
>>
>According to the ingredients label, the V8 V-Fusion drinks are a
>reconstituted blend of vegetables (such as sweet potatoes and purple
>carrots) combined with a blend of fruit juices from concentrate (such as
>apple, white grape, pomegranite, blueberry). If I recall correctly, these
>are also fortified with Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid). It doesn't appear that
>these drinks have any added sugar either.
>
>So far, I have seen that there are four varieties of the V-Fusion drinks:
>Peach Mango, Strawberry Banana, Pomegranite Blueberry, and Acai Berry. The
>actual blend of vegetables and fruit juices varies depending on the specific
>V-Fusion variety.
>
>Tastewise--I would also agree, they taste more like fruit juice.

I first ran into this kind of vegetable/fruit drink combo while
working a 4 month contract in Tokyo in 2005. One of the brands was
Kagome, there were several others all sold at the ubiquitous quick
markets.

As far as I could tell on my return, there was no similar product in
the US at that time.

The Japanese veg/fruit drinks were much less sweet and had a bit more
vegetable taste, although no specific variety could be made out. The
V8 Fusion I tried recently was too much like a plain fruit drink for
me but I liked the Japanese versions.