Last week I posted a link to a blog post on Harmful Drinks In America.
Last night the news featured the number 1 place getter on the list, the Cold Stone PB&C (Gotta Have It size, 24 fl oz). ‘PB&C’ stands for ‘Peanut Butter & Chocolate, with milk’. 24 fluid ounces equals about 710 milliliters.
The Cold Stone company’s own nutritional details will inform you that one of these represents a single day’s calorie intake in a cup. To add further perspective, the second worst drink on the list measured around 1500 calories and the third worst just over 1100. Both of those drinks have larger serving sizes than this. It’s concentrated calories in cup.
This suggests that the PB&C’s two year reign as the unhealthiest drink might continue for a while to come.
1. Worst Beverage in America
Cold Stone PB&C (Gotta Have It size, 24 fl oz)
2,010 calories
131 g fat (68 g saturated)
153 g sugars
Sugar Equivalent: 30 Chewy Chips Ahoy Cookies
In terms of saturated fat, drinking this Cold Stone catastrophe is like slurping up 68 strips of bacon. Health experts recommend capping your saturated fat intake at about 20 grams per day, yet this beverage packs more than three times that into a cup the size of a Chipotle burrito. But here’s what’s worse: No regular shake at Cold Stone, no matter what the size, has fewer than 1,000 calories. If you must drink your ice cream, make it one of the creamery’s “Sinless” options. Otherwise you’d better plan on buying some bigger pants on the way home.
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