Friday, 21 September 2007

Product of the week - Cel-Ray

In keeping with the New York theme and to finish up the week here is the product of the week entry. Dr Brown's Cel-Ray is a celery soda (with other natural flavours) that has been around since 1869. A New York invented soft drink it has a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge on the front. Ingredients include carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, extract of celery seed with other natural flavours, sodium benzoate and caramel color. Interestingly it is caffeine free and produced by Pepsi Cola. So what does it taste like? It definitely tastes like celery but given that celery usually comes in a solid state it seems very unusual to consume it in a liquid state. Last time we tried this drink we thought it was ok (and even purchased a second can of it) but this time there is just something not quite right about it (apart from the ingredients list)

1 comment:

dr maya vale said...

celery soda? even i'm raising my eyebrows on this one...

sounds kind of interesting but i'd agree that the scariest thing about american soft drinks is the ingredients list. (sodium benzoate really doesn't sound good at all - why can't they just call it "preservative 330" or something equally inoccuous?)

do you think you could put it into a risotto? i make a lemon risotto a la nigella lawson that uses celery in the base...