Since I missed Tuesday's installment of "I tried something new" #foodrevolution due to the fact that I was laptop-less due to web viruses, I'll share today with something kinda weird.
Lemongrass is one of my favorite ingredients in Thai and Vietnamese food. The folks and I were shopping at Costco the other day and I saw a jug of Naked brand juice in Citrus Lemongrass flavor, and was both intrigued and excited, so I got one to try as I've never seen a juice with lemongrass in it at your typical suburbia market.
What's even more intriguing about this juice is that apparently it doesn't exist on the Naked Juice website nor does it appear anywhere on Google search. I'm scratching my head. I am even more perplexed as you can clearly see, I did buy a bottle. So oh well, let's just pretend the juice exists shall we because I did drink it. [update 3:33pm 4/22: I wrote to Naked Juice and they wrote me back to tell me that this Citrus Lemongrass flavor is exclusive to Phoenix. Costco's can have special flavors in their stores depending on region.]
The Naked juice is made of orange juice, apple juice, lemon juice, and lemongrass extract. The nice thing about the juice is that there are no added sugars which is good because this juice is sweet on its own. One 8oz serving of the Citrus Lemongrass does have 24g of sugar which is almost at my daily goal of 25g of sugar/day, so I'm not going to be drinking this stuff everyday.
And the taste...
As for the taste, I'll say it's interesting. My first reaction was that it wasn't bad but it wasn't omg-I-love-this-stuff. Over the last few days, the juice has grown on me. What I found a bit off was that the orange juice and lemongrass seem to be fighting with each other a bit to see who can be the dominant flavor, and in the end neither win.
I do think that this juice would make for an awesome mixer in cocktails because the lemongrass will give the drink an interesting twist. In fact, this Citrus Lemongrass could make for an exotic Mamosa for Sunday brunch, or as a different twist in any drink that calls for plain orange juice. Here's over 1,000 cocktail recipes with OJ in it. I'd pour in some Amaretto straight in for a tasty happy hour drink.
If you've seen this juice in a store, tried it, or seen it online, do let me know.
