Jacob Eats: Corn Juice

I was visiting a newly-opened Asian grocery store and picked up UGUQ Corn Juice on a lark. Have a seat near me on this green velvet couch as I pop it open and imbibe: Smell You open it and, right away, it smells like sweet corn. Texture The texture is unfortunate. Like a homemade thick soy milk, except maybe a little thicker. Like the thick texture of a European apricot juice from a carton. There is a small amount of corn pulp in this juice, so it’s not one of those totally smooth and filtered juices. On the texture front, there’s no one here to blame but me. When I saw the goofy “corn juice” label on the shelf, there were two options. One drink had a simple list of ingredients: water, corn, sugar. I chose this other one with the konjac powder and xantan gum. 5g of fibre in a 300mL bottle. I figured a thick mouthfeel = a great time. How wrong I was. Taste There is an intense sweet corn flavour. Kind of like Ding Dong. When you boil and eat corn on the cob (or microwave it in a bag,…