15 - Olipop Classic Root Beer
Olipop is a newer company that makes prebiotic sodas, including Classic Root Beer. You can find Olipop in Target and many other stores. They are typically packaged in cans. Olipop has several other flavors you can try as well.
Branding
The Olipop brand tends to go with an understated set of pastel colors. In Target, you can usually find single cans of Olipop near the produce section.
In general, the colors are recognizable and you shouldn’t have trouble finding it.
Taste and Ingredients
This root beer must be refrigerated, probably because of the prebiotics it contains. Olipop also uses plant fibers and botanicals in its drinks.
The smell of the drink is rather medicinal and the taste is as well. They use Stevia for sweetening, so you will probably notice a diet soda aftertaste.
Speaking of the taste, it is pretty complex. I originally thought this would be like a flavored seltzer, but it is a true soda, or close to it. However, they have a lot of plants like artichoke, chicory root, cassava root, kudzu root, marshmallow root, Nopal cactus, and Calendula flower, which makes it taste different from any other root beer I have ever had.
I didn’t enjoy the flavor much, but it was certainly interesting.
The Wrap Up
I don’t really like prebiotic or probiotic drinks, regardless of whether they claim to taste like root beer or not. However, at 40 calories, this is probably one of the least sugary root beers available. If you do like pre or probiotics, then you might like this one.
Otherwise, you might want to pass.