Rethink Your Drink

Rethink Your Drink

Some time ago, I was invited to host a booth at a local Health Fair. At the table, I displayed a variety of drinks, along with the corresponding amount of sugar contained in each drink.

The responses I received were amazing!!!!! It’s your turn now. I challenge you to READ THE LABELS!!!!

booth-pic

Here are the drinks that were displayed:

  • Vitamin D Milk
  • Hersheys Strawberry Flavored Milkshake
  • Donald Duck Orange Juice
  • Dasani Purified Water
  • Minute Maid Lemonade
  • Coca Cola
  • Snapple Peach Tea
  • Gatorade Frost
  • Hershey’s Chocolate Milk (2% reduced fat)
  • rain Fresh H2O

test-yourself

nutritional-data-screenshotI tabulated the following (information obtained from nutrition label on each product):

  • Ingredients
  • No. of servings per container
  • Amount of sugar per serving (grams)
  • Number of carbohydrates per serving
  • Total amount of sugar per container (grams)
  • Total number of carbohydrates per container

INGREDIENTS LISTED:

ingredients-data

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