On a recent Buff Dudes they had the sponsor Olipop, the soda alternative sounded interesting so my wife and I got some at Fresh Thyme when we were doing our groceries, here’s my impressions on their Orange Squeeze.

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Hey youtube what's going on um I was watching another youtube creators account the other day uh buff dudes it's I guess it's two brothers and a dad their mom runs their merch and stuff for them but they, they have some interesting sponsors sometimes they'll have like this super expensive cereal that's you know low carb high protein or whatever and I'd love to try it but it's fantastically expensive uh then this week their sponsor was Olipop - and grab yourself a crisp refreshing Olipop - so

First I'll say if you go on their website this stuff comes out to like three dollars a can shipped and that's a lot for tonic water or soda sparkling tonic is what they call it. It's unique because, at least it's unique as far as I know, it's a prebiotic you know it's got botanicals and plant fiber it's not joking about the plant fiber. What I found interesting was in this can of orange squeeze which I'm about to try for the first time it contains 45 calories but nine grams of fiber, five grams of sugars, and then zero grams of protein. It's 160 percent of your daily vitamin C in a can. Now, my wife and I found this at fresh time yesterday uh you can go on lollipops website, this isn't sponsored or anything, I've just decided when I try something unique uh I'll share it with you guys so you don't have to waste your money or so you can be like well hey he liked it so maybe I will like with the solo stove which I haven't done another fire with yet. I was going to this weekend but yesterday we got a lot of rain, snow, rain, snow, rain, snow, and it's snowing right now so I didn't get around to that but let's uh let's check this can out. Again, I found it on the buff dudes, it was one of their sponsors, they're not sponsoring me. I'm nobody, as you can tell by my subscriber count, and the three of you that are watching this but it claims to support digestive and immune health you know whatever but it's plant-powered and microbiome approved - I'm not sure what the certifying body for that is and you know they make the proud claim that it's non-GMO, I don't care if something's genetically modified in a lab within reason before it's introduced into the wild and I don't think eating GMO crops is necessarily bad, it might kind of reduce the fiber and up like the carbohydrates with you know things like corn or whatever where they're trying to get the most bang for the buck, but I think some things are important like genetically modified rice. If we could get it to grow in different conditions and, um, you know we could we could really go a long way with world hunger and you could get it to synthesize vitamins and stuff inside while it's growing so that's cool. So I don't really care about the non-GMO part of it but it's an interesting thing. So the ingredients in this can uh they have several different flavors and they're all a little different, I know the cola one contains caffeine this does not, the cola one gets its caffeine from um green tea extract this one though, however, is carbonated water and then OLISMART which is cassava root fiber, chicory root inulin, jerusalem artichoke inulin, nopal cactus, calendula flower, kudzu root, hey a beneficial use for kudzu really bad invasive species, marshmallow root, slippery elm bark, that's all in their OLISMART, and then you have lemon juice, apple juice concentrate, mandarin juice concentrate, cassava root syrup, clementine juice concentrate, rosehip, uh acerola cherry, stevia leaf for the sweetness, Himalayan pink salt it does have you know 35 milligrams of sodium which is kind of on par with regular soda, and then natural orange flavor extract. It appears to be manufactured for Olipop in Oakland California, it doesn't say where but it wouldn't surprise me if it's regional, um one thing that is interesting is the can here, it's not printed on the aluminum it's definitely some kind of plastic wrap on just a bare aluminum can, uh yeah. Oh, it's gluten-free, it's vegan-friendly, it's paleo-friendly, but that's why you're paying $2.65, $2.70 I think we paid at fresh time and they only had three different kinds and a couple of cans each. I imagine it's not a super high volume sales product for them but it does sound like they're kind of new too so you know let's try it, my wife wanted to try it off camera so we're going to pour this in a glass

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Well, right away,

right away it smells like McDonald's orange juice, I don't know if they still have it but if you're a child of the 80s or 90s you'll remember it. It was kind of pulpy and had a very distinct orange juice taste, and we're definitely carbonated, you know it's a, it's a soda, it just looks like any number of energy drinks or something but there's no, no stimulants in this so let's give it a taste

It kind of tastes like Sprite

Yeah, it has a decidedly Sprite taste, I like that uh, at 250 to three dollars a can I'm not gonna rush out and get it but I may actually order some more of this just to have a treat. Um I've had two diet cokes this year it's january 30th or 31st when I'm recording this prior to that I was doing two or three Diet Cokes a day and when I ran out at the end of December I just decided not to buy anymore, um got a couple you know at the gas station or whatever when we were out and about and I wanted something to drink but yeah, that's that's pretty good, um I really should have prepared better and have a list of the flavors - they do have a root beer one I'd like to try assuming it's uh, not caffeinated like Barq's and some root beers are, I doubt it is but I'm just trying to stay away from the caffeine - it's uh, it's been surprisingly easy, I used to be a very heavy coffee drinker back in the day and you know, I would drink a pot, pot and a half of coffee a day and then I switched to Diet Coke and now that I've given it up I find generally I don't need it anymore. I miss the taste of the Diet Coke which is what interested me about these but, yeah, I was never a big fan of Sprite but I would drink it sometimes. I'm sure you've all had Sprite when you were sick to the stomach you know mother's wisdom and all that but it's not exactly Sprite it's...

It um, it's kind of like Sprite if it was watered down a little, eh, that's not fair because it doesn't taste bad it just tastes "light" I guess but yeah, probably want to go on their website and order a case of it you have to order like a whole bunch of it and the shipping makes it expensive plus it's winter so coming to me would probably freeze but go to their website it's drinkolipop.com I think, I'll have the link in the doobly-doo. Again not sponsored, if they'd like to send me some I'd gladly take it to try the other flavors, but I'm nobody so Ii don't that's gonna happen, but yeah look it up see if they have it in a store near you and just try it. It could be a nice little treat every now and then, uh, I might drink one or two of these a week some of the other flavors sounded interesting, I believe they had strawberry vanilla or cherry vanilla, I wish they had like a vanilla cola without caffeine. That I can get behind, but yeah, I'm gonna look for more of these. Uh sorry for you know not doing a fancy video today, I'm just kinda, it's winter don't really have a lot of great ideas just going to try stuff share it with you my wife and I have been doing plant-based, whole food plant-based, for a while we're going to probably share some of that with you as, uh, as we try it. Why not, and uh, yeah I'm gonna stop rambling now this is probably going on for like 19 minutes or something and I intended it to be a 45-second video so cheers! Like, comment, subscribe, dislike, check out the Patreon so I can get more weird stuff like this, uh tell me you hate my guts, that's been Ryan Mercer - uh, you guys have a nice one!