Say No to Vitamin Water

Its a product that has taken our country by storm. Sadly I've seen children and yes even diabetics drink it. Vitamin Water. Its super cool and sexy. Hey why not? Get all your vitamins and minerals in a bottle and you don't even have to drink that boring stuff (plain water) your grandma drank.

It tastes so good, Heck it doesn't even taste like water. Why? Well for one its full of sugar. Yep I said that right. Vitamin Water has eight teaspoons of sugar per bottle. That's just shy of what you get in a can of coke.

It clocks in at 50 calories per serving. Remember folks that each bottle, just like coke, has 2.5 servings! The sugar may hide under the ingredient list as crystalline fructose but remember Crystalline fructose is a processed sweetener derived from corn that is almost entirely fructose. It consists of at least 98% pure fructose. Crystalline fructose is estimated to be about 20 percent sweeter than table sugar, and 5% sweeter than high-fructose corn syrup.

We need to get over the illusion that products like Vitamin Water will hydrate you better than water. Want more vitamins? Eat a salad and drink some water (real water). For the price of one bottle of vitamin water (depending where you shop) you could go into your local mega-store and get yourself a 24 pack of old fashion drinking water.

Remember that the water used in Vitamin Water is not tapped from some vitamin rich source. All the vitamins are added in later in the production and in low amounts. Stick with the bottled water and dark leafy greens.