As consumers avidly are awaiting the summer season, their thirst for premium bottled water remains high. In the Readers’ Choice: New Product poll for April, Beverage Industry readers’ selected Poland Spring ORIGIN bottled water as their favorite new product release.

Sunshine Bottle Works launched its line of yerba mate beverages in four flavors: Peach, Mint, Berry and Unsweetened. 

Wild Kombucha announced the addition of a new flavor to its kombucha line: Blueberry Yerba Maté. 

Tea of a Kind has launched Raspberry Yerba Mate, a new flavor as part of its freshly brewed and reusable bottled-tea.

Arteasans Beverages LLC now offers Arteasan, a functional, infused tea line in select markets.

Through the Pepsi Lipton Tea partnership, a joint venture between PepsiCo and Unilever, Brisk Iced Tea introduced a new product line — Brisk Mate.

Loft Tea Inc. now offers its line of cannabidiol infused teas. 

There is no shortage of new product launches within the energy drink and shot sector. According to the Netherlands-based Innova Market Insights’ database, 124 energy drink and shot products launched in the United States in 2012. Of those product launches, energy/alertness was the top health positioning.

Guayaki introduced its same-named Sparkling Yerba Mate beverages, which can help stimulate focus and clarity as well as boost physical energy, the company says.