{"id":6917,"date":"2025-04-10T05:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6917\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T05:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:49:07","slug":"meghan-markles-as-ever-products-blasted-in-scathing-taste-test-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6917\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle’s As Ever products blasted in scathing taste test review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle this year launched her brand called As Ever – and the combination of tea bags, preserves and cookie mixes has been met with a mixed reception so far\"MeghanMeghan Markle says her ‘affordable’ products will swerve any controversial trade tariffs set by Donald Trump<\/p>\n

Meghan Markle’s<\/a> As Ever products have been slammed in a brutal review.<\/p>\n

Maureen Callahan even claimed she was nearly sick after sampling the food, including a raspberry preserve and a cr\u00eape mix. The products are on the market now, as part of Meghan’s new As Ever brand, which was finally launched this year after several hiccups, including copyright chaos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the critic called the treats “inedible” in the scathing review for Mail Online<\/a>. In it, Maureen writes: “The jam itself, much like our duchess, seems to lack a centre of gravity. It is runny \u2014 a kind of jelly that doesn’t gel. The taste, also like our duchess, is sickly sweet, and the texture leaves a filmy coat on the tongue.<\/p>\n

“Trust me: I ordered everything available and put it to a taste test. A brief taste, that is. Most of Meghan Markle’s outrageously priced products are inedible. Truly.”<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Prince Harry fan yelled five words at Duke before being booted out of court<\/a>\"TheThe raspberry preserve is one of the As Ever products(Image: As Ever)<\/p>\n

Maureen offers a glimpse of praise for the tea bags, also part of the brand. She writes: “If Meghan envisions these teas as the perfect beverage to accompany her sweet treats, I’d suggest not pairing them but saving them to then end \u2014 especially the peppermint, which helps with what this taste test nearly induced in me: nausea.”<\/p>\n

The peppermint is one of three flavours, which also include herbal lemon ginger. They are $12 (\u00a39) per tin, part of a pricing structure Maureen describes as “outrageous” in her piece of editorial.<\/p>\n

“Meghan’s cr\u00eape mix, meanwhile, resulted in a flavour and mouthfeel most akin to undercooked pancakes. It was bland, as was the shortbread cookie mix ($14), which yielded cookies that tasted both a little too sweet and a little too salty, but ultimately lacked any distinctive punch,” the review adds.<\/p>\n

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has defended her product’s pricing. Speaking out in the wake of Donald Trump’s brutal trade war<\/a>, which has sent the stock markets into chaos, the mum of two said As Ever is positioned to avoid the turmoil<\/a>. She said: “At the moment, all of our products are currently made in the US, so we don’t anticipate tariffs affecting us directly.”<\/p>\n

And the price of Meghan’s products has also been compared to similar available on the market – and are more expensive than several royal equivalents. The online shop of the King’s Highgrove home sells an organic raspberry-and-blackberry preserve for \u00a36.95, while the Sandringham royal estate has a raspberry-and-gin preserve at \u00a36.99.<\/p>\n

But Meghan added she wanted to create items that look “more prestige” but are “affordable”. She explained: “But as we look at the larger context of how this is going to affect the consumer day to day, I’m very grateful that in part of the conception of this brand, I wanted to create products that look more prestige but are more accessible and affordable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle this year launched her brand called As Ever – and the combination of tea bags, preserves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,1203,1281,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-6917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-meghan-markle","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}