One night a week I have a "date" night with my 5 year old daughter. We will go to the library, the pool, go shopping and even go out to dinner, just the two of us.

 

At a recent visit to our local cafe, we ordered a Snapple Lemonade as our "treat". Of course, I started reading the label and was shocked to find that the 16oz bottle contained "less than 1% juice" and the  ingredients list read: water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, lemon juice from concentrate, gum acacia, natural lemon flavor with other natural flavors, salt, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), beta carotene (for color).

 

Needless to say, I was confused. I checked again and the bottle did call itself "Lemonade" with the tag line "Made from the best stuff on earth" and "all-natural" blazened across the label. But where was the lemonade?  It was listed as number 4 in the ingredients list and the 1% juice means that in the entire 16oz bottle there was actually less than .16oz of actual lemonade juice - the rest was water (not even sure if it's filtered water or just regular tap water since it's not labeled as such) and high fructose corn syrup. Is that really the best stuff on earth? 

 

In all fairness, I have read that Snapple is changing over to using cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup in it's core line of drinks. It's supposed to happen in ealry '09. But if they leave this drink with only containing less than 1% juice in the entire bottle, I'd be hard-pressed to believe it's really the best stuff on earth.