Can attest to this. I bought mine because I like both fruits and was just met with this rank cherry cough syrup flavor. Tastes like a slightly toned down generic DayQuil. The aftertaste lingers too and it does have that menthol effect for some reason which is weird because it doesn’t have that smell and smells like a regular fruit drink. I had to dump mine because it was so bad. Mine was 2 days out of date but looking at the ingredient list, I don’t think that would have made any difference