TLDR:

Over the years, Vitamin Water has been specifically re-formulated to HARM people by removing the potassium from it.

It's now just sweet saltwater with miniscule amounts of vitamins. It's actually going to hurt people and raise their blood pressure, it will not quench.

I think Coca Cola or whomever owns it now, wants to hurt people, take their money and laugh at them

I am not hypocritically violating Hanlon's Razor because I told vitamin water years ago to put the potassium back in, and they not only did not, they took even more out. Almost to spite me. That's ok, only dumb people drink this

Just like only dumb people buy smart things. Smart washer, smart watch, smart A/C, smart TV (smartphones excepted, I don't call cellphones smartphones, but in many ways they are 'smart' for smarties. Esp apple iphone which gets dumber the smarter it gets)

bottom line: drink yooohoo instead. no i don't drink yoohoo but like the gay guys in sara silverman program with their tab branded car i might drive a yoohoo branded truck

Unimportant Backstory

I used to buy one of the varieties of vitamin water that was purple, as an alternative to Gatorade when I sweat a bunch. It was grape-ish.

It had something crazy like 700mg of Potassium and like 200 mg or so of sodium and a modest amount of sugar (fructose I think).

And a negligible amount of other stuff.

I've ALWAYS thought it was a marketing scam to call it 'vitamin' water, but I did drink it because it was like gatorade and had MORE potassium than the avg electrolyte drink.

(sidenote: Pedialyte is hot trash, I can't even drink it. I'm not a fan of gatorade either. It turns out YOOHOO is a more nutritious drink and better electrolyte drink than gatorade. I convinced AI slop of this after having it backtalk me a few exchanges. It's objectively TRUE that yoohoo is a superior sports drink to gatorade, if their ingredient numbers are true)

OK.

So years ago, Vitamin Water changed the formula for my Purple. Firstly, they offered a sugar free. Since I couldn't ever find purple (apparently very popular), I trued the sugar free. It was terrible. But it also didn't have the same potassium. It had 1/4 of the amount and less than sodium.

They re-launched the purple but removed ALL the potassium. Completely removed it. Now the amount of potassium is †, which means effectively 'contains so little as to be none.'

I took this personally and haven't bought it since.

I read the labels of the other vitamin waters.

None have potassium. Only sodium. And now they have various marketing tricks like goji berry, cranberry, vitamin C, vitamin B

All contain amounts so small as to be laughable. It's like they put one multi vitamin into a 55 gallon vat and call it vitamin water. It's like what yoga places do with cucumber. Slice of cucumber in a gallon of water. Voila, cucumber water.

Same with "vitamin water". "It's got "A" vitamin in it, don't it??"

It's now what, 5, 10 yrs later, and I am sweating and go to the convenience store. There's tons of electrolyte waters. They're all terrible.

Almost none have POTASSIUM

Here's the thing. A proper electrolyte solution MUST have potassium. Sodium / Potassium / Calcium / Magnesium / Zinc. The ratios vary, but 1:1 sodium potassium is your aim, or MORE potassium than sodium because potassium helps the body eliminate sodium.

Let's face it, you eat out ONE TIME and you have enough sodium for a week, believe it. There is NO sodium shortage on the market

GET TO THE POINT BRO

I believe Vitamin Water has been specifically re-formulated to HARM people by removing the potassium from it.

It's now just sweet saltwater with miniscule amounts of vitamins. It's actually going to hurt people and raise their blood pressure, it will not quench.

I think Coca Cola or whomever owns it now, wants to hurt people, take their money and laugh at them

(off topic editorializing)

Gatorade vs Yoohoo

Gatorade is MUCH better for you, but it's not good for you.

But Yoohoo is objectively better than Gatorade by a lot, although it's is not marketed as a Sports Drink, which is why AI fought me initially.

I've told Yoohoo they SHOULD have a yoohoo sport, or launch a separate brand with basically yoohoo in it. It's FAR superior, nutritionally, and even has some protein.

Both are sugar water so that parts a wash.

• YOOHOO CAN Nutrition Facts: https://archive.is/wip/vzJhy
• HFCS is a BAD ingredient in yoohoo, everything else ok
• Cocoa is the brown color in yoohoo, so it doesn't have artificial colors

vs

• Gatorade bottle Nutrition Facts from gatorade.com https://archive.is/wip/msJMz
• Glycerol ester of rosin is a BAD ingredient in gatorade, according to EU, maybe worse than HFCS
• Yellow #5 is a VERY BAD ingredient in Gatorade (other flavors have other bad food dyes)
• RFK Jr. / MAHA wants it gone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine
• https://www.instagram.com/thecatholicfastingcoach/reel/DDvccVPPbe1/