Salad topping is spritz of genius

Wish-Bone Salad Spritzers Vinaigrette Dressings. Balsamic Breeze, Italian and Red Wine Mist Cabernet. $2.89 per 7-ounce spray bottle.

Bonnie: Now you can be puttin' on the spritz with Wish-Bone's new Salad Spritzers. Each of the three flavors is a unique spray bottle full of dressing to spritz your salad. It's fun to do. Ten sprays, of 1 calorie each, cover about a cup of salad.

I found these very light-tasting — not surprising considering that water is the first ingredient in all three, with either high-fructose corn syrup (in the Italian) or vinegar (in the others) as the second ingredient. I like the flavor of the Red Wine Mist Cabernet the least, the Balsamic Breeze the best.

If you frequently find yourself ruining the nutritional benefits of a salad by topping it with too much high-calorie, high-fat salad dressing, you might want to give one of these new spritzers a try; that is, assuming that a simple squeeze of lemon doesn't do it for you and you can afford these spritzers' high cost.

Carolyn: With these Salad Spritzers, Wish-Bone is bringing the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Spray idea to salad dressings. It's a pump-stroke of genius, considering how easy it is to unintentionally overdispense dressing with conventional bottles and that the first or second ingredient in most salad dressings is fat. Wish-Bone also manages to nearly match ICBINB Spray's unbelievable 0 calories per spray (Spritzers have 1 calorie).

Considering that, these tasted better than I expected. That's probably because the non-water ingredients are high-quality ones like balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil and real cabernet sauvignon wine. These are still probably a bit too watery and acidic for anyone but serious dieters. That's why I'm hoping Wish-Bone extends its Spritzers line to include full flavors for people who want the benefit of a spray bottle's superior dressing distribution abilities — which would naturally result in people needing to use less dressing.

Diet Ocean Spray Juice Drinks. Orange Citrus Spray, and Cranberry Spray. $1.39 per 16-ounce or $1.99 per 1-liter bottle, and $3.59 per multipack of four 12-ounce bottles.

Bonnie: I like neither the taste nor the ingredients in these new Ocean Spray drinks. Both have a horrid aftertaste from the artificial sweeteners. The cranberry juice flavor in the Cranberry Spray tastes watered-down, mainly because it is. The orange tastes like a cross between Sunny D and Tang, both of which also contain a small amount of juice and are enriched with vitamin C. Both Orange Citrus Spray and Cranberry Spray contain at least 5 percent juice, but also the artificial colorings and sweeteners that I dislike.