Zero vitamin water is NOT zero calories

jowans2004

It may say zero calories on the nutrition label, but in fact, zero vitamin water has anywhere from 20-40 calories per bottle. I get frustrated seeing misleading advertising like this. 20-40 calories may seem minor, but just want to inform people that really really watch their calories, that the zero vitamin water is really not zero calories. So, if you happened to drink 2 bottles of the 40 calorie ones, that's almost 100 calories extra that you didn't count, now that to me is significant!! How do I figure, it's 20-40 calories? ...well, depending on the flavor, it can have 2-4 g of carbs, and there are 4 calories per gram of carb. So, in a bottle (which is 2.5 servings), you're getting 20-40 calories. Ok, just thought I'd get that out there, because the nutrition data was also wrong on MFP.

juliapurpletoes

just goes to show - ya gotta read labels, thank you for the post

Kirabelly

what about Powerade zero, I wonder?

I stay away from G2 gatorade because a bottle ends up having like 120 calories or something!

killagb

PAM cooking spray is a similar scenario, it says 0 calories but if you look at the serving size...it's 1/3 of a second spray...and there is olive oil in it...so it does have calories when you use a reasonable amount of it.

TheBraveryLover

Wow. Thanks for the info. I don't have them often, but from now on when I do buy them, I'll take note of this.

Chunkabutt83

then why does the whole bottle say 0 calories?

Chunkabutt83

just found this:

On the bottle label, you will find that it has 0 calories but 3 grams of carbohydrates and sugar, less then 1gram. How does this work? Doesn’t 1 gram of carbohydrates contain 4 calories? Yes, it does. So, theoretically, there are 30 calories in each bottle. Not quite, however, as Erythritol is almost non-caloric, with only 0.2 calories per gram vs. 4 calories for sugar (20 times fewer calories). Thus, Erythritol is uniquely qualified as a zero calorie bulk sweetener for formulating “reduced calorie” and “light” products which require a 25 percent or more calorie reduction from the standard formulation. Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling requirements, it has a caloric value of 0.2 calories per gram. That’s why the Vitamin Water Zero can be labeled as zero calorie, although it doesn’t have really zero calories. (Look at the label again. 1 gram of sugar is listed. Sugar is a carbohydrate. And each gram of it has 4 calories.) There are 2.5 servings in 1 bottle. Hence, there are at least 8 calories in each bottle

Raven00

Thanks for the info! Lol I love vitamin water

rdmchugh

Coca Cola has several law suits pending for what they market as "Vitamin water". It has less than a penny's worth of vitamins in it and is mostly sugar water.

In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola have defended the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

Sadly the judge in a CA case sided with Coca Cola that "no sensible person would consider this a health drink".

There are other law suits pending

According to the law firm Hordo and Bennett,

"These putative class actions allege that the Defendants' committed deceptive or unfair trade practices by marketing Vitaminwater as a healthy beverage, in circumstances where a standard 591 ml. bottle of Vitaminwater contains 32 grams of added sugar. In comparison, the American Heart Association recommends that the maximum daily consumption of added sugar not exceed 25 grams for woman and 37.5 grams for men."

http://www.cspinet.org/new/200901151.html

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/07/vitaminwater_suit.html

http://www.weightymatters.ca/2011/03/canadian-vitaminwater-class-action.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/the-dark-side-of-vitaminw_b_669716.html

Just a few web pages that come up from a quick search.

sunrize_sc

Be safe, just drink plain water!

jowans2004

yes, i guess the whole point here is to just don't get drawn so quickly to the advertising, read your labels, do your research, then decide!