Oasis Strawberry Sparkling Drink: Korean Strawberry Soda in a 350ml Can

The fizz is medium. Lively enough to feel like a proper soda, soft enough that you can finish a full 350ml can without your palate giving up halfway. The strawberry itself sits in the middle of the tongue, rounded and confectionery-like, closer to a strawberry milkshake than to a fresh berry out of the punnet, with a light tartness at the back that stops it going flat.

Temperature changes this flavour more than it changes the citrus cans in the range. Very cold, it reads clean and refreshing. At room temperature the sweetness pushes forward and the aroma turns heavy. If you remember one thing from this page, remember to chill it properly. For ingredients and allergen information, read the printed label on the can.

Worth clearing up before anything goes into a basket: this is the sparkling one. A 350ml carbonated can, clear pink, fizzy, served cold and never shaken. If the fizzy pink can is what you are after, the Oasis Strawberry Sparkling Drink 350ml can is the product you want, and everything below describes that can specifically.

The two berry cans get treated as interchangeable. They are not. Blueberry is darker and drier on the finish, with a depth that sits closer to grape than to a garden berry; people who like it tend to like it a lot, and anyone meeting it for the first time needs a sip to place it. Strawberry needs no introduction at all. Everyone at the table already knows what it will taste like before the can is open, and it delivers exactly that.

That is the practical difference. Strawberry is what you serve when you do not know your guests' tastes; blueberry is what you serve to the person who has told you strawberry smells too sweet for them. If you want the deeper berry alongside it, read our notes on the Oasis Blueberry Sparkling Drink and put the two on the table together.

Four hours in the fridge is the honest minimum. If guests are already on the road, 20 minutes in a bucket of ice and water beats an hour in the fridge, because water pulls heat out of a can far faster than cold air does.

Poured over a full glass of ice, strawberry behaves well. The melt takes a little of the sweetness off, the fizz holds up, and the colour in the glass is good enough that nothing needs to be added to it. A wedge of lime on the rim, or two mint leaves bruised in the bottom, is as far as it has to go.

For a jug, build the ice and sliced fruit first and pour the cans in last so the fizz survives the walk to the table. Strawberry also blends well with a second soft, sweet flavour rather than a sharp one: the Oasis Lychee sparkling soda is the obvious partner, its floral side sitting on top of the berry instead of fighting it. Half and half over ice, nothing added.

Strawberry is the can you put out when you cannot ask every guest what they drink. At a children's party the colour does most of the work, and the 350ml size means a child actually finishes one instead of leaving a half-empty bottle warming on a table. A tray of cold cans and a bowl of ice, and the drinks station is finished.

The same reasoning holds at work and at home. For an office gathering, an iftar table, or a majlis where the guests span three generations, cans of strawberry are the least demanding thing you can serve: nothing to mix, nothing to measure, and no glasses to wash if people drink straight from the can. Keep one or two other flavours beside it for whoever wants a change and the room is covered.

A single can is the right buy when you are trying the range for the first time, or topping the fridge up for the week. A 24-can carton of Oasis Strawberry starts to make sense when one of these is true:

• You are hosting something with a guest list: a birthday, an iftar, a school event, a Thursday in the office.
• Strawberry is the can that empties first in your fridge and you are re-ordering singles more than once a month.
• You run a cafe, a pantry, a nursery kitchen or a small shop, and you need the same flavour on the shelf every day rather than whatever is left over.

A carton holds 24 cans of 350ml. Keep it somewhere cool and out of direct sun, and move a dozen cans into the fridge the night before you need them so you are not chilling a whole carton in a panic an hour before guests arrive.

Oasis sparkling drinks are halal and produced under HACCP food safety management, made to UAE standards. If you are buying for a business, a certificate of analysis is available on request. Ingredients and allergen information are printed on the can label, which is the reference we point every buyer to rather than restating it here.

Single cans of every flavour sit together in the Oasis sparkling drinks retail collection, so strawberry can go into a mixed order with the rest of the range and arrive in one delivery. Delivery inside the UAE is free on orders above AED 300, and you can pay online at checkout or by bank transfer if you are ordering for a company. We deliver within the UAE only.

If you are buying for a group and have not tasted the range yet, start with strawberry. It is the one that needs the least explaining, and once you know where it sits, the rest of the flavours are easy to place around it.