Glaceau VitaminWater (made by the Coca-Cola Company) has a whopping 33 grams of sugar per 20-ounce bottle (and 130 calories), which is only 6 grams less than a can of Coke. In fact, Coco-Cola Company was sued in 2009 for promoting VitaminWater as a healthful product. Not surprisingly, VitaminWater was rated the "Worst Healthy Drink" by Eat This, Not That.
VitaminWater is not water—it's a candy bar in a bottle. Much of the sugar in VitaminWater is the worst possible kind—crystalline fructose—which is even more damaging to your health than high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Crystalline fructose is 99 percent fructose, whereas HFCS is only 55 percent fructose.
Fructose is known to significantly raise your triglycerides, which in turn raises your risk of heart disease because it metabolizes into triglycerides and fat, not glucose. And if that's not bad enough, crystalline fructose may be contaminated with arsenic, lead, chloride and heavy metals.
But it doesn't end there.
Many of these so-called health drinks contain as much caffeine as 6 ounces of Starbucks coffee or 12 ounces of Folgers mountain brew. If you are curious about the caffeine content of your beverage of choice, check the following databases, Overcaffeinated or Energy Fiend. But what about the nutritional claims made by some of these companies—how accurate do you think they are? One journalistic group decided to actually have these beverage products tested.
Source: Dr. Mercola's Article - Perhaps The Most "Toxic" Health Drinks of the Centrury
Another great article on this subject: Coca Cola VitaminWater: "Dangerously Misleading Advertising"
Susie -- Yes, for the Soda Cracker pie recipe I mean just the small sections of saltine crackers. Hope you enjoy. Joni
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Every time I go to the health food store it makes me wonder why they carry certain items...ones that clearly aren't healthy in any way. Sad that they promote such things.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how I didn't know this! I am usually very careful about making sure I don't drink items I know are bad (soda, Gatorade, anything with excess sugar. I don't drink Vitamin Water that much but now I am going to steer clear of it!
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