Goes down easy, not for everyone

These fruit flavoured drinks from Boost are a very interesting product. They have many of the same nutritional benefits as some other Boost products you’re probably more familiar with, such as pudding cups or protein drinks, but because these are fruit juice they have some key differences.

I find that the fruit juice, especially compared to the protein drinks that resemble chocolate milk, is much easier to drink and goes down faster. Drinking it through a straw in particular feels like drinking a regular juice box, and only takes a few seconds to finish. For this reason I think they’re much easier to consume if you don’t like the heavier and thicker energy drinks, but they’re also less filling as a result. Protein drinks can sometimes work as temporary meal replacements, and despite having very similar nutritional values, these fruit drinks certainly do not. If you try to use one of these as a meal replacement, you’ll be hungry again in no time.

The three flavours of fruit juice are quite similar to each other, but are different enough to be noticeable.

Wild Berry: The wild berry flavour is very similar to a “fruit punch” type of juice, very sweet and artificial but not bad.

Orange: The orange flavour only tastes a bit like orange juice from concentrate, and is pretty similar otherwise to the peach flavour.

Peach: The peach flavour does taste like peach fruit juice, and is the least strong of the three flavours.

All three flavours have an aftertaste that I have to assume comes from some of the added nutritional ingredients, as it’s very similar to the kind of aftertaste you get in protein drinks. It’s not too strong, and fades quickly.

Each box can be drunk with a straw, or opened and poured into a glass. Four packs of 6 gives you quite a lot of fruit juice to go through, and I would not recommend drinking more than one a day, as the sugar in each juice box is pretty high, as it would be in any fruit juice. As a way to bolster the nutrition found in the diet of someone with difficulty eating solid food, I would say these fruit juices are easier to stomach than heavier protein drinks, but less filling.

HOWEVER, nutritionally these have so much sugar that I wouldn't recommend them for anyone other than the elderly or those who cannot eat solid food well. Diabetics should avoid.