Kool-Aid Tropical Punch Drink: 38 grams of sugarWhat it lacks in real fruit juice (it has none), this iconic childhood thirst-quencher makes up in sugar. On the plus side, Fruit Juicy Red contains 5 percent fruit juice and no caffeine and it’s gluten free. It contains 11 percent fruit juice, and the second ingredient, after water, is high-fructose corn syrup, followed by sugar. Because supermarket refrigerators often display the lemonade side by side with 100 percent juice products, some consumers consider it as salubrious as orange juice. These products also have another distinction: they are far more likely to be advertised to black children than to white children.

Source: New York Times October 22, 2019 17:37 UTC