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Originally Posted by troutman
Coke: Wait, People Thought Vitaminwater Was Good for You?
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philp...-water-obesity
Back in 2009, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Coca-Cola for making "deceptive and unsubstantiated" health claims about the products. In 2010, a US federal district court judge rejected Coca-Cola's motion to dismiss the suit (document here), noting that Coke's lawyers had made a remarkable argument: "At oral argument defendants suggested that no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."
So what Coke is passing off as "enhanced water" is mostly just sugar water; or as CSPI has put it, "vitamins + water + sugar + hype = soda - bubbles." Granted, there's less sugar in vitaminwater (19 grams per 12 oz.) than in, say, Coca-Cola classic (39 grams per 12 oz.). But it's still pretty sugary.
Coke charges about twice as much for its vitaminwater as it does for Coca-Cola Classic.
What about the other 0.5 percent of vitaminwater—the vitamin part? It includes electrolytes—the stuff found in sports drinks. It turns out that electrolyte-laden drinks are mostly hype. As for all those vitamins, there's little or no evidence that vitamin supplements do much to improve health.
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I used the vitamin water to ween me off the pepsi addiction. But yeah, those things aren't great for you. Since Christmas I've only had a handle of them (been off pop for a while now) no coffee (was never a huge coffee drinker) no energy drinks. Trying to just have water as much as possible.
Not going to wax poetic too much here but feeling good just because of that. The mornings are much better. No desire to have something to give me that morning "kick".