​Zero Sugar, But Is It Zero TASTE? Zevia Cola Review: SUPERCHEF VS SUPERMARKET

All right, so this episode, Super Chefer Supermarket, we are in what people would call the most diabolical section in the grocery store

The one everyone's trying to make sure people don't get no more of

Cancel all the sugars everywhere

Not realistic, but that's what people want to do

So, because people are going

to drink soft drinks no matter what

I want to see if there's some soft drinks you actually should be able to get in your diet that won't hurt you too much

So, I found this Zvia

I think my my guy said that Stevia's little cousin

They got a cola version

They got a what is this? Root beer

I love root beer, but I

think we did a root beer flavor already

So, we'll do cola

A lot of people like Coke, like Pepsi, like that flavor

So, let's see and put this to the test and see if it's good for you

Not only good if it does taste good

Is the price right? Got a lot of questions there

So, let's get back to the kitchen.

All right

So, we are back in the kitchen

My favorite place to be

Home kitchen that is

And we are about to taste Zia, the cousin of stevia

I'm joking

Don't sue me

That is not part of their their pitch or their marketing

All right, but this is right in the pocket of America that we struggle with

the most

Sugar, soft drinks

Everyone tells you don't ever have a soft drink

K, take them out your thing

So that's just not realistic for people

You know what I'm saying? Most of America are going to drink soft drinks

So I'm hoping this may be a better alternative for you

So, we do this every episode

when it's a product

If it's a protein, if it's a produce item, we don't do this part of it

But we judge products on taste cuz it it got to taste good, right? Nutrition

Let's see if it's good for you

Let's see if you have it in moderation

Everything is good in moderation

Or let's see if it's a once

a year kind of product

And I like to do price because grocery stores, the price of a supermarket when you walk out of it is extreme now

So price matters a lot

So I like to start with how that product talks that talk

This would be the prefight for a boxing match where you brag

So how does Zia brag? It says no

sugars

Okay, I hear you

No fake colors

Huge right now

Everybody's talking about that right now

And zero fake sweeteners, which to me is a game changer

So it doesn't have no sugar, added sugars, and no fake sweeteners

That's a huge thing

So far, so good

And then let me see because I'm doing

something for people that would never be done

Most people will look at the front of it, buy it, but they'll never really look at the back of it

And I felt the statement that ZVM needed to be said

It said, "In a world full of fakes, it's talking

It's hard to know what's worthy of sipping

Luckily, our sodas

are delicious, minus the suspicious

They got bars, people

Who who wrote this one up? They got bars

So, before we even get into it, it's already talking that talk

And I like a product that stands for something

But let's open this bad boy up

You know, I want to see

First, I like to get straight to

it

I'm not one of those YouTube shows that waits and give you things as a 10-minute show and they don't give you what you came for until 9 minutes and 30 seconds into it

Like, we want to get straight to that taste cuz if it don't taste good, most people can't buy it

That's just the way the country goes.

this we're all about flavor here

We don't care anything about function until now

We're changing the way people can think about food, how they shop for food, all those things

So, this is a cola

Everyone knows what cola is

Coca-Cola, Pepsi, RC, every we've been Come on

I

ain't tell you what Cola is

We know this

First thing first, it's clear

It's see-through

It it has no what's If Coca-Cola or cola in general is only getting its color from dye, you could take that out

We don't really need that

You say that's the first thing

that should go

If that's where they getting it from, I never really looked into it and seeing where it was getting dark from

But if it's just from the food coloring to just take it out, we don't need it

So, let's give it a try

It's crazy

I wish I didn't see it first

I thought you mentally if you see

clear, you think citrus, you think lemon lime, you think Sprite, you think star, whatever it is now

But Zia Zvia is on to something because it is super carbonated but not too much

It's not like it's going to burn your throat

Um it's smooth

It's cola flavors there

It's very pure

It's not

like aggressively sweet but it's sweetened

This is a great This is good, man

It is so the best way to describe it is clean

It doesn't have the the sugar just dissipates and disappears after you're done

It doesn't last too long on your

tongue like cola really will dominate you

Like if you're eating a Coke, I don't I couldn't eat a Coke and eat my dinner cuz it would mess with the flavor of the food

I feel like you can eat this drink this and eat your dinner and be totally fine

So taste, all you got to do is not look at it and

close your eyes and drink it

Matter of fact, let me do that

Let me see if it tastes different

Oh man, that is I think when like Evan, who is my partner, he does all the videography and stuff

I think when we taste this or we get done, he like, "Yeah, I see what you're saying." The

best way to describe it, it's a very clean cola flavor that does not linger, that's not too sweet, that's not too carbonated

You know, sometimes drink is hard to digest, hard to get down

You know what I'm saying? this not it as far as taste goes and be very clear don't know me they didn't ask to be on

the show didn't really have a choice shouldn't show the product uh but A minus 100% A minus if I was a cola fanatic this would be what I would drink A minus for sure flavor uh let's get on the ingredients real quick I want to go I want to go nutrition let's go nutrition

to look at the bottle calories zero total fats sodium, carbs, added sugars, all zeros

This is zero everywhere on this thing

Okay, now this is where they get you at

Let's see what's inside of it

I hear you on all these zeros, but that don't always equate to great nutritional um ingredient list

So,

ingredient list, carbonated water is number one, means it's mostly water

Number two is natural flavors

Three, stevia extract

That's where they're getting the sweetener from

Then you have tartaric acid, you got caffeine, you got citric acid, and and what these acids do, I have them pulled over here,

and I didn't know about the tartaric tartaric acid, but it it's basically it's natural

It's found in grapes, tamarind, bananas

It is it's a stabilizer

It's a um it brings the sharpness, the tart taste you're going to look for

It's nothing out out the blue

Um citric acid is in every every

single drink that you get. same things

But it I was like reading on these things

I've been studying all the additives and food and everything

But the cool thing and I'm I didn't do good in school

Spit it out there

I did great in culinary school

Shining superstar Food Network everywhere

You

know what I'm saying? I'm a star at that

But I'm not like a I'm not a ball of remembrance

I'm like an experiential

I'm like a a lifestyle person

Like I learn from doing

So therefore we change our whole lifestyle

Now we really eat clean

That way when I do these shows it's natural

But the one

thing that stuck out to me about citric acid was it's also natural and that's in a lot of things

I think it gets a bad rap all the time

Obviously excessive things, you know what I'm saying? You could tooth enamel, cough, stomach irritation, those kind of things, but everything's

good in moderation

Um, nutrition A minus the so far is a Tre A student

Now, let's go to price

Price is I like to keep my receipts

Price was $649 for six of them

I don't know what you think, but a dollar and some change, a dollar 7 or something like that per good price.

Price respectfully, especially because most things are healthier, cost more

This doesn't seem to cost that much. $649

A minus to me, too

No, A+ for real

For real

Cuz I feel like every time you want to do better or get something more natural, they charge you more

Wow

Like

shouldn't you charge me more for the process? The things that have more ingredients in it

Why you charge more for less? Doesn't make sense

Good job on price

So price A+ nutrition A minus

A+ I got the minus for minus is in there

And then we had taste A minus

All in all, but if

you drinking the cola and they got root beer, too

I haven't tasted root beer

But we'll do root beer because every flavor is different

But all around this gets a Super Chef stamp of approval

Super Chef versus Supermarket

Zia

When it comes to cola, I'm telling you, it's worth your money

It's worth your

health

Go get it

Don't forget, DM me on Instagram if you want to tell me some products that you would like for me to try out so you don't have to waste your money on them

And I got you

See you next time.