Coca Cola’s new soft drink product is called Fruitwater. Can you guess what it doesn’t contain?

Coca Cola just launched a new product called Fruitwater. Guess what it doesn’t contain.

I’ll give you a hint. It DOES contain water.

Fruit? Not so much. In fact, it contains no fruit juice at all.

But they’ve fortified it with a few scant nutrients to give the illusion that it’s not liquid candy. Which it is. Even the flavors are candy-like…Watermelon punch, strawberry-kiwi, etc.

But unlike candy, Fruitwater has zero calories. Yep — it’s sweetened with sucralose, better known as Splenda.

In animal studies, sucralose promoted obesity and weight gain. So anyone who drinks this candy water with the belief that it’s somehow healthy…Well, let’s just say they’ve been seriously mislead.

Too bad Fruitwater doesn’t quench thirst the way they quench it on Cape Grim in Tasmania.

Down there, they actually collect and bottle rain that rolls in over the open ocean from Antarctica. They claim it’s the most pristine rainfall from the least polluted air on earth.

If they wanted to market it in the U.S., they could jazz it up a bit and call it Fruitrainwater. After all, it contains just as much fruit as Fruitwater does.

Sources:
“Next From Coke: Fruit-less ‘Fruitwater'” Kate Seamons, Newser, 3/20/13, newser.com