Monday, May 26, 2008

World's Least Healthy Beverage?


Seen by me first on Marion Nestle's What to Eat I bring you Baskin-Robbin's Heath Shake.

Here's the unholy breakdown:

  • 1,560mg sodium (more than a day's worth of Blood Pressure Canada's recommendations)
  • 266g of sugar (66.5 teaspoons - 1.5 CUPS OF SUGAR!)
  • 2,310 Calories (that's the equivalent number of calories in either 15 Twinkies, 8 1/4 Snickers bars, 4.3 Big Mac's, or over 1/2 gallon of Ben and Jerry's ice cream)


    • And yet people (McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner) still make arguments against putting calories on menu boards.

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    Posted by Yoni Freedhoff at 5:30 AM

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    6 comments:

    1. You know, I initially read "HEALTH" Shake. I doubt this was completely accidental.

      Good lord. I'm scratching my head over here... How do companies think this is okay? I get that there's a business to run... but don't you want to retain your customer base, not kill them?

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    2. Anonymous12:15 PM

      Count me in on the "Health Shake" readers too. It wasn't until I read the blog post and thought "how can they call it a health shake?" that I took a closer look and realized it was named after a Heath chocolate bar.

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    3. Anonymous5:50 PM

      It's hard to believe that many calories even fits into one drink. That's actually kind of...terrifying. I think the most ironic thing of all is the very first ingredient listed..."reduced fat milk." Wow, just imagine if they had used whole milk instead :o

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    4. This shows that companies are aware of the unhealthy content in their food, but only care enough about it to make fake healthy alternatives to keep their patrons coming back. Obviously, they knows their food kills you, but are unwilling to do anything about it except relabel products with the healthy brand.

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    5. Anonymous3:28 PM

      Oh my, add one more to Satin's list of food choices. The Heath milk shake can join up with my other favorite, Cheet-o-s.

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    6. I think I will stick to a bunch of 'heathy' carrots...

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