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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Vitaminwater: Soda in Disguise

Vitaminwater: Soda in Disguise

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

vitaminwater is just soda without the fizzThere’s a lady in my yoga class who brings a bottle of Vitaminwater with her to every session.   It seems to me that this product has grown increasingly prominent at healthfood stores and even regular grocery stores over the past year or so.

Whoever is in charge of marketing this product line is obviously doing a stellar job (whether it’s a job done with integrity is another matter entirely).

I must confess that I didn’t know much about this product at all, but seeing it at every yoga session got me to thinking – what exactly is in this stuff anyway?   It’s obviously getting popular with a  more health conscious than average crowd.     Well, I did a little digging, and here’s what I found out.

Vitaminwater Has Nearly as Much Sugar as a Can of Coke

Did you know that one 20 oz bottle of VitaminWater has a whopping 33 grams of sugar in it?  You have to read the label carefully to figure this out as one bottle equals 2.5 servings and each serving has 13g of sugar.  Most folks would miss this with a cursory reading of the ingredients, instead thinking that the entire bottle has 13g of sugar. Dangerous mistake!  A 12 oz can of Coke doesn’t have much more sugar at 39 grams!

The type of sugar used in VitaminWater is crystalline fructose, a fancy name for corn syrup – the kind of sugar primarily responsible for the abdominal spare tire epidemic and the same, cheap sweetener used in soda.

Dr. Richard Johnson MD, author of The Sugar Fix, strongly recommends keeping fructose from all sources under 25 g per day. One bottle of VitaminWater and you have already exceeded the limit by a large margin. Excess consumption of fructose raises uric acid levels to dangerous levels in the body.   Uric acid is a major contributor to obesity, kidney disease, insulin resistance, and high blood pressure, even in adolescents.  Lowering uric acid levels normalizes high blood pressure in the vast majority of cases.  Given the excessive amount of fructose in VitaminWater, there is simply no place for it in a healthy diet. Period.

“Hydrate responsibly” is the slogan imprinted on the VitaminWater label.  How do companies get away with this kind of misleading terminology?   As if a fructose laden drink could possibly substitute for pure water as the ideal method of hydration!   Attempting to hydrate with VitaminWater is, in fact, purely irresponsible.

The final nail in the coffin for VitaminWater is that the “vitamins” aren’t really vitamins at all.    They are synthetic chemical isolates, not even close to the same vitamins naturally encountered in fresh, whole foods.   Synthetic vitamins should be avoided as they act like drugs in the body and can cause imbalances over time.

Don’t be fooled by VitaminWater.    Slick marketing does not a healthy product make!   Now I’ve got to figure out a really nice way to let my yoga friend know the truth about her workout drink of choice.   Not an easy task, but a true friend would say something, don’t you think?

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Josiah Allen

    Jul 6, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    They now make a stevia sweetened Vitamin water called ZERO. It still has the synthetic vitamins in it though… You should do a blog on synthetic vitamins as not many people know the difference between those and the ones found in whole foods.

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  2. Anonymous

    Apr 29, 2010 at 9:42 pm

    I'm diabetic and read the labels. Wouldn't touch this stuff with a 10 foot pole.

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  3. Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist

    Apr 20, 2010 at 7:45 pm

    Corn syrup is in so many processed foods, not just Vitaminwater. It is so important to your health to remove this deadly sweetener from your diet completely. Start reading labels and you will be shocked at how it is literally everywhere at the grocery store.

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