I love soda and most recently have switched over to Zero calorie soda brands like Zevia and Waist Watchers. These types of low calorie sodas rarely go on sale and can get very expensive to purchase on a regular basis. I was SO excited when I received the opportunity to review SodaStream.
Summary:
Overall I really like the SodaStream! It's so easy to make and it's good to be able to decide how much fizz you want in your soda! I also like the fact that it comes in diet which is zero calories and it is sweetened with Splenda vs. Aspartame.
There are several varieties to select from so you will never get bored with your soda selection at home and nothing beats the fact that having SodaStream will save me money.
I loved all of the diet soda’s and was so happy for the samples that I received. By far my favorite is the Black Currant & Pear and the diet Lemon Lime. The kids loved the diet cola soda and the ginger ale and they enjoyed helping to make the soda at home. They thought it was the coolest thing ever!
There are several varieties to select from so you will never get bored with your soda selection at home and nothing beats the fact that having SodaStream will save me money.
I loved all of the diet soda’s and was so happy for the samples that I received. By far my favorite is the Black Currant & Pear and the diet Lemon Lime. The kids loved the diet cola soda and the ginger ale and they enjoyed helping to make the soda at home. They thought it was the coolest thing ever!
Overall Rating for
SodaStream:
eeeee5 Stars
How Does SodaStream Help the Environment?
SodaStream
is an "Active Green" product, meaning that consumers are
actively reducing their CO2 footprint every time they make
soda or sparkling water at home instead of buying it from the store. The
more the system is used on a daily basis, the more CO2 footprint the
user actively saves. (This differs from "Passive Green" products,
which use green-friendly production processes, but their products are not
inherently helping the consumers save on their daily footprint.)
Because
SodaStream uses water straight from the tap, the system makes traditional
store-bought beverage bottles obsolete. That means less plastic manufactured,
less plastic waste is created, and fewer bottled beverages must be transported
from manufacturers to distributors to stores to homes.
Globally,
206 billion liters of bottled water were consumed in 2008 (Zenith International
Global Bottled Water Report, 2008). The energy required to make water bottles
in the US only, is equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil (Container Recycling
Institute, 2002).
According
to the US Recycling Institute, more than 80% of bottles in the US do not get
recycled and end up in landfills. Also, an estimated 4.7 million tons of
greenhouse gas emissions were produced in the process of replacing the 134
billion bottles and cans not recycled in 2005.
