Just found out the most unbelievable piece of information today which I thought I would share with you all.  I am a Mizone drinker and have been since it was first launched.  I would regularly buy 3 - 4 bottles per week and it was mainly for the afternoons when you need to drink those extra couple of glasses of water,  but don’t feel like drinking it plain.

So can you imagine my horror to discover today that there is not one, not two,  but five teaspoons of sugar per bottle.  Oh my god.  Who knew that, obviously not me. I wouldn’t have drunk it if I did.  Who in their right mind would add an extra 20 teaspoons of sugar to their weekly calorie consumption. Its hard enough as it is these days with the “up size me” environment we all live in, why on earth would we want to add to it buy sticking that much sugar in our water. 

Interesting fact as well is that the Charlie’s Sports Drinks are just as bad.

So to all you flavoured water drinkers, check the bottles carefully.  The trick is to see how many servings they say is in each bottle, in this case there is five, very sneaky.  Who considers there to be five servings in bottle of Mizone,  this is the only way they can get this through without raising red flags to us all.

So it’s back to my regular bottled water, but it is safe with the knowledge that I’m not going to have to run to Palmerston North and back to burn it off afterwards.

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