I haven’t tried the bottled version of this but the packet was pretty good. This is a unique flavor, it does taste a bit like cherry but I’m not sure if it wasn’t labeled that, that I would have thought that myself. The water became a frosty opaque color which at first I thought I hadn’t mixed it enough but then realized that’s also what the in store bottled product looked like. 4/5 the flavor just wasn’t my favorite.