Sipping into the Beverage Mainstream

Once it was pretty easy to identify an alternative drink. For example, back in the seventies if you saw a frozen “smoothie” concoction being sold at some local beachfront stand, you knew it was delicious, but it wasn’t exactly mainstream.

But today things are different. You have oxygen-enhanced water, vitamin-fortified alcohol, soy–tea combinations, beverages that can actively burn off fat, bottled iced coffees, herbal-containing smoothies that act more like “soothies,”and a wide range of exotic…