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When you think of coffee, do you think healthy?  Well the folks over at POM Wonderful do.  Why is their iced coffee healthy?  Well it’s due to their special ingredient POMx.  Here is their story:

POMx Iced Coffee has something you won’t find in any other coffee beverage.  Is super-ingredient, POMx, a super-pure, super-concentrated, 100% natural blend of polyphenol antioxidents loaded with all the health benefits of POM Wonderful pomegranates.  That’s right.  While you’re busy getting your buzz on, you’re also getting your daily dose of anioxidants, which is equivalent to drinking an 8 oz. glass of POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice, the standard daily consumption in our medical studies on cardiovascular and prostate health.  And that’s most POMxcellent.

In order to stay within their ingredient standards, POMx coffee is made with only shade-grown beans, rBST-Free milk and organic cane sugar.   Visit their healthybuzz site to learn more about their ingredients.

POMx Iced Coffee comes in three flavors: Chocolate, Vanilla and Café au Lait.

POMx Iced Coffee Chocolate is my favorite out of the three flavors.  (more…)

Jamba Juice had many other writers taste their new items. Here is a list of those involved and links to their reviews if they’ve posted them:

Ken Kuhl – Fast Food News
www.foodfacts.info/blog/
http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/2009/06/jamba-juice-announces-new-food-menu.html

Jessica Simmons – Epic Portions
www.epicportions.com

Taylor Corner – Food Beast
www.foodbeast.com

Leng Touch – Fat Cat Who Created a Vegetarian
www.lengslog.wordpress.com

Abby Abanes – Pleasure Palate
www.pleasurepalate.com

Stephanie Stiavetti – Wasabimon!
www.wasabimon.com

Wandering Chopsticks
www.wanderingchopsticks.blogspot.com

Carol Green – Uncovering Food
www.uncoveringfood.com
http://www.uncoveringfood.com/2009/06/blended-bliss-adds-bite-jamba-expands.html

Mari Suzuki – Secrets of a Kitchen Wizard
www.kitchenwizard.wordpress.com
http://kitchenwizard.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/food-is-coming-to-jamba-town/

Denise Lee – Denise Does Dessert
www.denisedoesdessert.wordpress.com
http://denisedoesdessert.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/jamba/

Yesterday was the Race for Hope in Washington D.C. (show your support, it’s a good cause)  It was a rain-soaked charity event that left me and my friends looking like drowned rats.  As post race grub is concerned, what better choice is there than a big, juicy burger?  We can’t forget that it’s National Hamburger Month.

Top Left- The Capitol Building, Top Right- The shaky, vomit-inducing metro into DC, Bottom Left- The finish line, Bottom Middle- Pondering my grub order, Bottom Right- Post race crowds

An escape from the dry bagels, power bars and trail mix that litters the charity race grounds.  A visit to Cheeburger Cheeburger was just the thing I was looking for.  So, what was the order today?  A Semi-Serious 1/3 pound Cheeseburger with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and Thousand Island dressing…an order of Frings (Fries/Onion Rings)…a lemonade…and for dessert I perused through the 378,000 possible combinations of shakes and decided on a Rocky Road shake in a to-go cup.  It’s about 8 hours later as I write this, and I’m still recovering.  When I put the meal into writing, I applaud my gluttony.  What can I say?  This meal really hit the spot.

• The Semi-Serious 1/3 pound Cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, onion, American cheese and Thousand Island Salad Dressing.  Cooked medium-well.  Delicious.  Price: $6.29 GrubGrade: 9.25/10

• Frings (also known as the “Best of Both” basket of fries and onion rings), potatoes cut fresh daily and some great tasty onion rings dipped in a secret batter.  Big enough to share.  Price: $4.29  GrubGrade: 8.75/10.

• Lemonade served in a jar.  Price: $1.89
• Rocky Road shake to go.  Once you’re done, you’re not really done.  Most of the peanuts don’t make the journey through the straw so you’ll have a bunch waiting at the end.  It was the first time I’ve had a Rocky Road shake and I will definitely get it again. Price: $3.29  GrubGrade: 9.00/10

I hope you’ve enjoyed the pictures of grub as much as I enjoyed devouring it all.  Like I said before, it was the perfect lunch after being rained on for the entire morning and experiencing motion sickness for the first time from the usually not-so-shaky metro rail.  Be sure to check back often to GrubGrade this month for more National Hamburger Month appreciation.  It’s a good month to grub on some great burgers.