Zevia All Natural Soda, Ginger Root Beer, 12-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24)

by Zevia

Product Features

• Pack of twenty four, 12 ounce cans (total of 288 ounces)
• No Artificial Sweeteners; Sweetened with Stevia
• Vegan, Kosher and Gluten-Free
• Zero Calories; All Natural
• Product of the USA

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

ZEVIA brand sugar free stevia sweetened natural diet soda was born out of a desire to find a natural alternative to the diet soda habits of its creators. In 2007, Seattle-based ZEVIA LLC began its mission to create the first full line of zero calorie, sugar-free, stevia sweetened natural diet sodas. Today, ZEVIA is one of the first products to use stevia as its primary sweetener and is available nationwide.

Product Description

There’s root beer. Then there’s Zevia All Natural Ginger Root Beer. We took the rich and creamy traditional flavor that you would expect from a root beer and enhanced it with a hint of ginger (hence the name). A little creamy, a little spicy, absolutely zero calories. It doesn’t matter if you drink a cold Zevia Root Beer straight out of the can, or pour it in a glass and top it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. What matters is that the diet root beer soda you know and love is back with a twist. Zevia Ginger Root Beer, sweetened with stevia. You’ll love it a little more with each zero calorie sip.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 20 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001KUWFPC
• UPC: 894773001049 894773001094
• Country of Origin: USA
• Item model number: CASE-ROOTBEER2
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,918 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #12 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Beverages > Soda

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

70 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars We examined their claims, gave it a taste-test, & found multiple problems with Zevia...But here's a solution! (Read on), January 24, 2011

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Mad Max (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zevia All Natural Soda, Ginger Root Beer, 12-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24) (Grocery)

First, my household is a low-carb, low-glycemic index, and zero corn syrup household. We have been looking for alternative *natural* sweeteners for quite some time because our doctor has serious warnings (and lots of research) against chemical-based sugar substitutes like aspartame, saccharine, and splenda.

Stevia is our favorite sweetener - usually from a bottle, or as a raw leaf. The problem is, we can find very few products (like snack bars, soda, cookies, etc) which use Stevia.

So we were excited to meet the people from Zevia at the trade show in which they rolled out this product (2007)... and we were among the first people in the country to taste a stevia-flavored soda!

At the trade show, the company gave out mini-cans of selected flavors, and we were super impressed. The taste is different from mainstream root beer, cola, and ginger ale products ... but it was sweet, sparkly, and had a nice bite. No awful aspartame aftertaste!

We came home excited to order our first batch for home/personal use. To our disappointment, we found several discrepancies between their product & literature at the trade show, and the actual product rolled out.

First, they decided to add caffeine to many of the flavors (not the root beer), but this ruined most of the flavors for us & makes their "all natural" claim a bit disingenuous.

Next, we were told by company reps that the soda contains only purified water, stevia, and citric acid. To our surprise, when the ingredients were published on the can (FDA standards), we found that the PRIMARY sweetener is an artificial chemical called eurethrytol (2nd ingredient), not Stevia (5th ingredient). Drinking a 12 ounce can of ginger root beer flavored Zevia had the same effect on me as eating 4 maltitol-based chocolate bars (LOTS of stomach problems).

Finally, they claim this is a zero calorie drink, but erythritol does indeed contain calories - about 25 for the can. And at $1 per can, the price is just to high. This product was a disappointment all around.

SOLUTION!!

Ok, so you're wanting a safe, natural, great tasting soda without side effects? All you need are 3 ingredients: Seltzer Water, Bottle of liquid Sweet Leaf Stevia, and (secret ingredient) citric acid.

Seltzer water is widely available at any grocery store. You'll find the other two ingredients at your health food store (we buy citric acid in the bulk section of our local apothecary, under $1 per ounce).

For one serving of soda (12 ounce) add 15-20 drops of liquid Stevia, and just a *PINCH* (1/8th teaspoon?) of citric acid. The Stevia sweetens and flavors, and makes a very nice drink. But the citric acid adds that "bite" that makes a cola taste like a cola!

Our favorite Sweet Leaf flavors are: Root Beer, Cinnamon, Orange, & Apricot. This method is actually much cheaper than cans of Zevia, tastes better, broader variety of flavors, super portable (we travel with a little pouch of citric acid & a bottle of Sweet Leaf), and it's truly natural!

Three more notes for health-conscious people: (1) We have tried many off-brand bottles of liquid Stevia, and they are all just fine. HOWEVER, many of the off-brands use a grain alcohol base, which tastes awful in soda (unless you're used to that sort of thing! Ha Ha...). So other brands are fine for cooking, but at this time I recommend Sweet Leaf for mixing drinks (just purified Stevia + water).

(2) Aluminum cans are a disaster for the environment (takes one 12oz can of gasoline to melt down/recycle 4 new aluminum cans). So I recommend bottles of Seltzer water instead.

And, (3) artificial carbonation robs your body of magnesium & other things. Instead, opt for naturally sparkling water, like Pellegrino. We usually pay $1.15 for a 1-liter bottle of naturally sparkling mineral water, no additives, and it has lots of healthy minerals. GOOD LUCK in your continued journey for better health!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reminds me of how A&W Root Beer tasted when I was a kid, January 7, 2010

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Ryan (SAN DIEGO, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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The Zevia Root Beer Flavor is one of my favorites of the Zevia flavors. It has very strong Root Beer taste which I find tastes a lot like my memories of A&W Root Beer back when I was growing up in Canada, back before they started replacing sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup. I'm not sure if A&W Root Beer is different here in the US from Canada, as the food in the A&W restaurants here in the US is nothing like the food in A&W Canada restaurants.

In any case, I love that there's nothing but all natural ingredients here, and it's naturally sugar free. This summer, I often combined the Zevia Root Beer with Clemmy's Sugar Free Vanilla Bean Ice Cream to make my own Sugar Free Root Beer Floats (and sometimes with Orange Zevia instead of the Root Beer) and they were absolutely amazing guilt free Floats.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love the Root Beer flavor, March 9, 2009

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honestreviewer (NY) - See all my reviews

I finally found this soda at a local store. Not much on the shelf. I tried the zevia regular cola (bad aftertaste) the root beer one (this is my favorite) and the orange one (good). I didn't get the lemon/lime one. This rootbeer one is delicious. No aftertaste like the cola one has. I love rootbeer so I will continue to buy it. It is expensive at $1 a can and for the 6 pack it cost me $5.99 with no tax on it. It is a much better alternative to the diet sodas out there. I don't use artifical sweetners or have sugar in my diet except for stevia. I hope the price gets lower as other stevia colas come onto the market.