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Worst Bottled Lemonade?
Minute Maid Lemonade (20-ounce bottle)
250 calories
67 g sugars
Sugar Equivalent: 5 Good Humor Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwiches
Punishment: 60 minutes of vigorous housecleaning
Drink This Instead!
Crystal Light Pink Lemonade Hydration (16-ounce bottle)
10 calories
0 g sugars
Over the past 50 years or so, we Americans have developed a severe drinking problem.
We stopped making our own iced teas and lemonades (recipe: water, lemon, sugar) and started buying them in bottles or mixes, with ingredients like “high-fructose corn syrup” and “ascorbic acid” on the labels. We stopped thinking of a soda as a treat – akin to an ice cream or a candy bar – and started seeing it as the equivalent of a glass of water, drinking two, three, four, or more a day. Then we stopped drinking water out of the tap and started demanding that it be artificially flavored and put into bottled with the words “vitamin” or “energy” stamped on their labels. And, in just the last decade or so, many of us stopped brewing our own coffee and started buying things with vaguely European names, like “mocha latte.” And the result of all this beverage evolution is that, today, walking into a convenience store or a beverage distributorship has become dangerous to our health.
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