Interesting Information: May 20, 2013
Is Vitamin Water Healthy?
My niece Nancy Howser Gardner is passionately interested in healthy food and healthy practices, and it’s been really fun to watch her growing in her knowledge and in her conviction about what is best for her family.
She posted a web site about a month ago that listed and compared unhealthy drinks. I tried to find it again and turned over lots of lists of “ten unhealthy drinks,” but not the one Nan posted.
I wasn’t surprised by the cream-based chocolate/coffee drinks.
I was surprised by three others, however.
The list said that 36 grams of sugar is a desirable daily limit of sugar.
VITAMIN WATER, touted as a healthy drink, has 32 grams of sugar. One drink.
SoBe Green Tea has 51 grams!!!
And Minute Maid Lemonade has 67.5 grams of sugar, which is the equivalent of 16 sugar cubes.
I wonder if the sugar form is High Fructose Corn Syrup?
And what kind of vitamins are in the water? Likely they are synthetic, cheap versions of what you should be getting from your food.
Takeaway: If the food industry is telling you they’ve made something for you to eat or drink that is a healthy choice, send up the red warning flags and start reading the label.
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