Protein Shake, also Vitamin Water!!!!

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I'm drinking an "acai-blueberry-pomegranate" Vitamin Water right now, and I realized it tastes like a melted slurpee. I paid $2.25 for it, and it's basically filtered water with a couple of added vitamins and a DROP of fruit extract (less than 1% juice). I guess I'm being captain obvious here, but no wonder Coca-Cola bought Glaceau.

I drink it a lot lately because it's like the only thing available nearby besides plain old regular bottled water that doesn't have HFCS in it

I really don't get Vitamin Water. It's not all that great and has 100 calories or so a bottle. Why not just drink regular H2O and take a multivitamin if you're concerned about that?

Yeah, I wind up drinking it once in a while for similar reasons - 26 grams of sugars per bottle instead of like 60.

Sometimes I just want a sweet drink instead of plain water.

But this one was kinda gross.

Yeah, that just seems like a lot of liquid calories. I suppose complared to reg soda or juice it isn't but I can't remember the last time I had either or those.

Vitamin Water does use fructose, btw. Is there something specifically unhealthy about high fructose corn syrup (other than it just being one of those icky food industry products)?

It's junk food dressed up for yuppies who are too smart for junk food. With the exception of the Multi-Vitamin one, the Vitamin content is negligible.

It goes perfect with a power bar (that contains 20g of sugar).

I cldn't find any Schweppes Tonic in Tokyo, so I opted for Vitamin CC instead.

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Not too bad actually.

I like the lemonade vitamin water. It's a bit watered-down, less sweet lemonade and a good choice when I don't feel like soda or regular water. The vitamin bit is unimportant to me as I'm sure it's negligable amounts.

What I want to know is how have they become so successful as to have 50 Cent and Kelly Clarkson shilling for them?

Are those CC Lemon bottles prevalent in the US or only in Japan? I think they are *brewed* (hahah) by Kirin. The label stated it contained a LOT of vit. C.

I don't drink flavoured still water (?). It feels odd that something colourless can have a fruit flavour. Yes, I'm a moron.

i remember, probably 10 or so years ago, glaceau made awesome waters that were completely unsweetened and had a tiny bit of fruit flavor - cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon. those were heaven. then, they moved into 'fruit water', which was still pretty good, though the flavoring could be a little off. then vitamin water took over and it's much harder to find even the regular fruit water anymore. actually, the 'hint' waters are a lot better i think, though still more like fruit water than the original awesome glaceau waters of yore.

oh p.s. anyone interested in the vitamin water pomegranate blueberry acai should drink the honestade pomegranate blue (as discussed on corresponding noise thread).

You know that stuff is mostly grape juice right?

yep! most of them are. but it still tastes a lot better than the vitamin water version!

Here's a reason for vitamin water: it is GREAT for hangovers. better than gatorade, because it has vitamins AND electrolytes. also tastes better.

tehresa, i remember the glaceau melon waters tastily

they were in those weirdly shaped clear thin plastic bottles w/ the pop tops. oh, those were the days...

I dunno, I think it tastes like grape juice (Honest Pomade)

to each his own, but i tried that vw xxx and it was foul.

yeah it's gross

The Honestade one is not bad.

They do make some of the most bizarre-tasting tea products I've ever imbibed.

xpost to Stevie: I've never seen CC Lemon in the U.S. My favorite Japanese beverage is Calpis Water. Ooh, and cold cocoa!

Vitamin Water, Gatorade, etc are gross. I need sugar I can taste.

CC LEMON IST DEUS.

I may be the world's only fan of Fruit 2 O.

Roffle:

Now here's something you wouldn't expect. Coca-Cola is being sued by a non-profit public interest group, on the grounds that the company's vitaminwater products make unwarranted health claims. No surprise there. But how do you think the company is defending itself?

In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

fantastic riposte

astonishing

Here's a reason for vitamin water: it is GREAT for hangovers. better than gatorade, because it has vitamins AND electrolytes.

This cant be right, theres no electrolytes (and fsckall vitamins) in this shit. Gatorade it aint.

I only ever drink the one with guarana in it, simply because its the only non-fizzy caffienated drink around (and doesnt have the icky tauriney taste of V/Red Bull). I have no expectations of health from what is effectively a bottle of cordial.

But for Coke to be advertising the shit as good for you, as always bemused me in the ads I'd see, and now say "well surely no one BELIEVED US", is just breathtakingly ballsy.

I walked by a classroom window to which someone had taped a napkin which had written on it "Did you know VITAMIN WATER IS NOT HEALTHY? It's NOT!!!"

list junk food dressed up for yuppies who are too smart for junk food

Pictured: Coca-Cola lead counsel

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