The Nutrition Source

Beverage Source Information

Beverage information for the How Sweet Is It? handout was obtained from the following websites. All websites were last accessed on April 15, 2009. Beverage manufacturers may have reformulated their products since weprepared this list, or may have come out with newproducts. So use the beverage manufacturer’s websites as the bestsource of information on drink nutrient content and new beverages. The Nutrition Source and the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Schoolof Public Health do not endorse specific brands, and the inclusion ofbrand-name beverages on this list does not constitute an endorsement.

Carbonated Soft Drinks
A&W® Root Beer
Blue Sky® Lite Natural Soda
Coca-Cola® Classic
Fanta®Orange (information obtained from product packaging)
Mountain Dew®
Pepsi® Cola
Schweppes® Ginger Ale
Schweppes®Tonic Water
100% Juice
Apple and Eve® Naturally Cranberry100% Juice
Low Sodium V8® 100% Vegetable Juice
Minute Maid® Orange Juice
Mott’s® Plus for Kids’ Health Juice 100% Apple Grape Juice
Naked® Juice 100% Juice Pomegranate Blueberry
POM Wonderful® 100% Pomegranate Juice
Welch’s® 100% Grape Juice
Sparkling Juices and Sparkling Water
Fizz Ed.TMPomegranate Cherry
IZZE® Sparkling Grapefruit Juice
IZZE®esque® Sparkling Limon 
Poland Spring® Brand Sparkling Water
Polar Seltzer® with Vanilla
Sweetened Water and Flavored Water
Berry Bot® Fortified Water
Glacéau Vitamin Water®(information obtained from product packaging)
Hansen’s® Organic Junior WaterTM Beverage
Homemade Spa Water (see recipe on The Nutrition Source)
Old Orchard® FruitSense® Accelerate Key Lime
TalkingRain® TwistTM 
Fruit Punch and Fruit Drinks
Capri Sun® Juice Drink Strawberry Kiwi
Hawaiian Punch® Fruit Juicy Red
Odwalla® Strawberry C-Monster®
Snapple® Fruit Punch Juice Drink
SunnyD® Tangy Original Style
Lemonade
Minute Maid® Lemonade
Newman’s Own® Lightly Sweetened Lemonade
Sports Drinks and Energy Drinks
Capri Sun® Sport® Sports Drink Lemon Lime
Gatorade® GTM Orange
infused owater
Odwalla® Serious FocusTM Apple Raspberry
Red Bull®
SoBe® Adrenaline Rush
Iced Tea
AriZona® Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey
Diet Steaz® Sparkling Green Tea – Raspberry
Homemade Iced Green Tea with 1 Tsp of Sugar
Homemade Iced Mint Tea, Unsweetened
Honest Tea® Lori’s Lemon Tea
Lipton® Brisk Green Tea
Nestea® Sweetened Lemon Iced Tea
Snapple® Earl Grey Black Tea
Snapple® Iced Tea – Peach
Teas’ Tea® Naturally Sweet Mango Oolong
Coffee Drinks
Iced Coffee with 1 TeaspoonSugar
Panera Bread® Frozen Drink Caramel
Starbucks® Mint Mocha Chip Frappuccino with Chocolate Whipped Cream
Smoothies and Flavored Milk
Homemade Fruit Cooler (see recipe on The Nutrition Source)
Jamba Juice® Mango Peach Topper®
Naked® Juice Protein Zone® Banana Chocolate
Nesquik® Ready-to-Drink Chocolate Milk, Red. Fat
Odwalla® Original Super Protein®
Silk® Chocolate Soymilk
Starbucks®  VivannoTMBanana-Chocolate Blend
Stonyfield Farm® RaspberrySmoothie
Source information for teaspoons diagram: Cranberry juice cocktail, orange juice, and orange soda information obtained from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference; cola and sports drink information obtained from Pepsi Cola;sugar packet information obtained from Domino Sugar.

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