POM Wonderful

[zilla369]

This week i discovered my new favorite non-alcoholic beverage, POM Wonderful. It's 100% pomegranate juice, and advertised as having more anti-oxidants than anything else you can drink, including red wine and green tea. Expensive, but like heaven in a bottle. Sexy website, too: POM Wonderful

Anybody else tried this stuff? They have several pomegranate-blended-with-another-fruit flavors, as well; pom-tangerine, pom-blueberry, etc.

[Carolyn Tillie]

This week i discovered my new favorite non-alcoholic beverage, POM Wonderful. It's 100% pomegranate juice, and advertised as having more anti-oxidants than anything else you can drink, including red wine and green tea. Expensive, but like heaven in a bottle. Sexy website, too: POM Wonderful

Anybody else tried this stuff? They have several pomegranate-blended-with-another-fruit flavors, as well; pom-tangerine, pom-blueberry, etc.

I buy it often - makes GREAT mimosas!!!

[slkinsey]

Is it carbonated or sweetened?

I have seen it in stores, and thought of reducing it to a thin syrup on the stove to make home-made grenadine.

[beans]

Non carbonated.

Excellent idea Sam. Saves the staining of cuticles and seedy mess. Bleh. We bought a bottle last week and haven't opened it to try the grenadine idea at work.

I believe it is 100% fruit juice.

[hannnah]

There's a spiffy POM billboard at my nearest Metro station, but I haven't seen it in stores as yet. I guess it's either coming soon or someone messed up their media buy.

[zilla369]

There's a spiffy POM billboard at my nearest Metro station, but I haven't seen it in stores as yet. I guess it's either coming soon or someone messed up their media buy.

hannnah - check again. It's not in the drink coolers in my area - it's in the produce section of the chain groceries.

[bloviatrix]

I've been wanting to try it. Tomorrow I'm doing a big supermarket shopping. Maybe I'll pick some up.

[tommy]

I buy it often - makes GREAT mimosas!!!

you beat me to it. it goes wonderfully in prosecco.

at a decent dinner party, i offered several bottles of prosecco, along with pomegranate juice, peach nectar, and another nectar of some sort, and i let people mix their own cocktails. they went nuts over the pmegranate. and it's festive, for the holidays.

[jhlurie]

How much are you paying for your POM? The times I've seen it, the price has been er... not merely expensive, but extreme.

[trillium]

Knudsen's has been making a pure pomegranate juice for years and years but it doesn't come in a sexy bottle or advertise. You can even buy it at Trader Joe's, but under the TJ label, for a little less. It makes a nice "real" grenadine.

regards,

trillium

Edited November 20, 2003 by trillium (log)

[Schielke]

I tried this last week and liked it. I do think it is more suited to mixing with other ingredients.

Ben

[zilla369]

How much are you paying for your POM? The times I've seen it, the price has been er... not merely expensive, but extreme.

$3.59 for a .... 16 oz bottle, i think.

[hillvalley]

There's a spiffy POM billboard at my nearest Metro station, but I haven't seen it in stores as yet.  I guess it's either coming soon or someone messed up their media buy. 

I've seen it at a number of Whole Foods markets in DC and Maryland. It is in the same aisle as the eggs and yogurt.

How would you compare pomegranate juice to cranberry juice? What is the consistency?

[bilrus]

There's a spiffy POM billboard at my nearest Metro station, but I haven't seen it in stores as yet. I guess it's either coming soon or someone messed up their media buy.

Hannah - I saw it at the Giant in Ashburn Village yesterday where they keep the juices next to the produce section.

It hasn't had a really big splash here in DC yet, but hte billboards are all over in San Francisco.

[Sweet Willie]

I've had three kinds: reg Pom, Blueberry and Pom, Mango and Pom

Mango Pomwas by far the best.

Blueberry Pom was quite good.

Regular Pom I really did not care for.

[jhlurie]

How would you compare pomegranate juice to cranberry juice?

Yeah... isn't Cranberry juice more like $3.59 for a half gallon (or cheaper) instead of for a 16 oz bottle? That's a point of comparison!

[tommy]

How much are you paying for your POM? The times I've seen it, the price has been er... not merely expensive, but extreme.

at kings, i think a bottle is about 4 or 5 dollars. at least i *think*. maybe i should double check the next time i buy it!

[mighty quinn]

ooh -i saw this at trader joe's in old town alex yesterday and wondered what it was-looks interesting will have to try it soon!

[bloviatrix]

How much are you paying for your POM?  The times I've seen it, the price has been er... not merely expensive, but extreme.

at kings, i think a bottle is about 4 or 5 dollars. at least i *think*. maybe i should double check the next time i buy it!

It's about that price for the 8 ounce bottle at the market near me on the UWS. That's why I need to go shopping in NJ.

[Placebo]

Yes, POM is indeed tasty. Mixes well with vodka and I've used it with great results in a reduction sauce for seared duck breast and in a vinaigrette dressing for a green salad with fresh chevre, walnuts and port-soaked fig slices.

I will need to investigat ehe Knudsen's juice as a bunch of stores around mecarry a wide range of their stuffs.

[tommy]

It's about that price for the 8 ounce bottle at the market near me on the UWS. That's why I need to go shopping in NJ.

their website lists 6 15.2 ounce bottles for 20 bucks. jhlurie, are you sure you're thinking of the right stuff? that doesn't seem "extreme" to me. especially if you're mixing it with some prosecco. the stuff goes a long way.

[jhlurie]

Come on... if its marketed in pre-mixed formulas (tangerine pom, blueberry pom, etc.), do they really expect its default use to be as a mixer (I mean... further mixing)? I think they expect people to drink it straight, and to plop down 4 or 5 bucks each time. Although... yes... that website price is better, especially if it includes shipping.

EDIT - Okay... I see your point. Superpowers. Got it.

Edited November 21, 2003 by jhlurie (log)

[tommy]

Come on... if its marketed in pre-mixed formulas (tangerine pom, blueberry pom, etc.), do they really expect its default use to be as a mixer? I think they expect people to drink it straight, and to plop down 4 or 5 bucks each time. Although... yes... that website price is better, especially if it includes shipping.

i plop down more for a budweiser.

you gotta remember though, this is an "antioxidant superpower". you can't front on dat.

[hannnah]

There's a spiffy POM billboard at my nearest Metro station, but I haven't seen it in stores as yet.  I guess it's either coming soon or someone messed up their media buy. 

Hannah - I saw it at the Giant in Ashburn Village yesterday where they keep the juices next to the produce section.

It hasn't had a really big splash here in DC yet, but hte billboards are all over in San Francisco.

Ah ha - I'd tried Safeway and Harris Teeter, but not Giant. Thanks!

[BJL]

It sells for about $5.50 at the grocery in my neighborhood on the UWS. I had been reluctant to try because of the price, but perhaps mixing it is a good way to stretch it out.