Bournvita Row: How Much Sugar Is Too Much Sugar In Your ‘Health’ Drink?
How much sugar do popular brands of health drinks contain? The short answer is 9.5-37 gm per 100 gm of the product.
That’s a lot. That’s also over the permissible levels prescribed by the World Health OrganiSation. And that’s still not the real amount of sugar in these drinks – besides sugar, these drinks also contain fructose, corn syrup, etc, which are just fancy names for sugar again.
Just two weeks later, he had to take down the video and apologise for ‘defaming’ the product after Mondelez India sent him a legal notice.
Following this incident, a lot of questions have been raised about pre-packaged products targeted at kids.
Why Is Sugar a Cause of Concern?
Dr Priyanka Rohatgi, Chief Nutritionist, Apollo Hospitals, explains that while in general sugar intake in a high amount is harmful to health, when it comes to these packaged ‘health drinks’ specifically, it’s not the sugar levels alone that are concerning.
For any pre-packaged beverage, these ingredients are necessary to provide the stability, structure, and texture you want the product to have.
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