Coke sued for VitaminWater fraud

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anyone drink vitamin water here?

Yeah I drink it just because I don't like to drink carbonated beverages all day, but I'm glad they're getting sued for all the obnoxious pseudo-scientific stuff printed on the labels!

I guess the people that are suing never bothered to read thee nutritional facts on the bottle. I have had vitamin water and I noticed all the flavors taste almost the same. That led me to conclude, that vitamin water is just water with a bunch of sugar in it and food coloring in it

Oh well. Koolaid isn't good for me, but I drink it because it tastes good. Same goes for Vitamin Water.

My favourite are their energy drinks that say "natural health product" on the can/bottle. All of these years they've been telling us that lots of sugar and caffeine is bad for you, now all of a sudden they are natural health products. Gotta love it

I've never heard of this VitaminWater stuff. Never seen it either. So it must not be readily available in Canada.

it's sold at Walmart, if you have them there...

Sugar and caffeine ARE natural.
It's the cancer chemicals in the colorful little paper bags that aren't.

A) They all taste the same to you? That's just weird.
B) Even if they all did taste the same, why would that lead you to believe that there are no vitamins in it? You can taste vitamins that are dissolved in quantities of liquid?

They don't have this product in the UK. They tried to introduce selling tap water, the regulator absolutely rippped them to shreads.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3809539.stm

There is even a backlash again mineral waters, and resturants have stopped selling them.

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Real mineral water doesn't taste all that nice. It is medical product and it can save your life. The mineral come in powder and then they mix it with the water and used as a IV drip or drunk if you can hold down fluids. There are electrolyte mixes, and various other essential minerals. You can get them at your pharmacy.

If you are healthy you should get plenty of minerals through food.

I'm having the "b-relaxed" flavor so I am unable to put up much of an argument. I also have the "Rescue" flavor chilling in the fridge.

Of the different flavors I've had (not just the two mentioned above), none have tasted alike to me.

What do I know, I "b-relaxed"

I've tried Vitamin Water a couple times before. I agree that most of your vitamins and minerals should come from eating a healthy, balanced diet, and not from these "health" drinks alone. I'm a track and cross country athlete, so that means that I also should be taking multivitamins (which is good for my iron, and my ferratin levels, as I'm a woman who is also a collegiate distance runner). I also try to eat a lot of vegetables, which I've been doing a lot better with than before. I tend to eat like a horse during dinner! lol I also hate it when companies try to sell juice, but it ends up being water and sugar with just a little bit of juice. There's nothing like pure orange juice in the morning. I think that Gatorade is good as long as it's drank with water after your workout, at least if you're a distance runner. I think that people just need to drink more water on the sidelines (and off) and rely less on flavorful drinks. I confess, I'm not that good with drinking lots of water either lol. I also don't think energy drinks can be that good for you in the long run. I don't know how much evidence there is for this, but it seems as if over time that people who drink energy drinks on a regular basis are going to be headed into some real problems later in life (such as dental and heart problems to name a couple). I've never had to rely on energy drinks to keep me awake and I've been able to get through some nights of heavy homework just fine. A lot of these drinks provide you with a temporary energy boost, but then end up giving you a nasty sugar crash. I'd say it's a lot cheaper to buy a huge canister of multivitamins and eat healthily and exercise regularly than to keep buying all these energy drinks and "health" elixirs and what not every day. Plus people wouldn't be getting a sugar load every time they drink a "health" drink.

I've had a few. I like the taste, but when I saw on the label that the sweetener was pure fructose it didn't sound very good. (The equivalent amount of sugar wouldn't be so good, either.) I never thought of them as health drinks, and it's sad that some do.

not only do you get most of your mineral through food you get a lot of your water through food too.

Really? I've never heard of that, except in references to koalas, ect. But I thought (from my extensive perusal of survival manuals, including those from the US Army) that if you don't have water then you shouldn't eat food because it will use up your water. If you get a lot of your water through food, then wouldn't it make sense to eat the food to get water from it?