Rivella?

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It is not even tasty - for me...

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I met the guy who invented it in a bar of all places, he was fishing for new ideas, i offered him the challenge of alcoholic water to releve hangovers, he loved it, he said as a mixer it would be great but the hardest thing to keep would be the taste of the water...

I wonder if he took it any further?

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What do you mean about sugar in fruit juices please? I'm interested in what you think about it

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Fruit juices is full of sugar. Check out the label. Almost 25 g of sugar per 100 g juice. And it is all the fast high glycemic kind you should avoid if you want to loose weight.

If you want some orange juice....eat the orange instead.

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Are you talking about the natural sugar from the fruit in 100%, or the fruit "nectars" which are diluted and with added sugar?

What kind of juices have 25% sugar?

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He took it too far to just pop in and ask him. Robert Barth (* 25. Oktober 1922 in Zürich; † 29. März 2007 in Rothrist).)

kJ/100ml

Milk (Whole) 284 KJ

Grape juice 258 kJ

Milk (Drink/Semi skim) 237 kJ

Orange juice 194 kJ ( Fructose:Glucose 1:1 )

Apple juice 187 kJ ( Fructose:Glucose 2:1 )

Coca Cola 180 kJ

Rivella Red 160 kJ

Vitamin Water (multi-v) 87 kJ ( source )

Tomato juice 64 kJ

Rivella Blue 30 kJ

Coke Zero 1 kJ

Source.

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Yeah - but the point was about sugar, not calories. I'm interested to know where people think the calories come from

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I just love ice-cold Rivella Bleu when it is hot - very refreshing and very few calories.

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according to the nutritional data, a .5L bottle of blue Rivella has 10% of the daily requirement of calcium and potassium, and 5% of the daily requirement of magnesium, all of which are better than your typical Gatorade and without all of the artificial colors. for my money, there's nothing better than a liter of Rivella and a banana for the sideline of any sporting endeavor.

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I wasn't comparing it vs Gatorade, I was making the point that no soft drink is a health drink and it certainly isn't the same as milk.

I SUSPECT (although I don't know, but I do know the industry) that the nutritionals you mention above are added ingredients rather than being direct from the milk, but I may well be wrong. Rivella is probably bottled hot not cold and I don't think that all that stuff would survive.

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Sugar! Look here .

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...you've integrated entirely too well!!

Rivella is carbonated and...doing sports when drinking carbonated drinks is definitely not a good idea.

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That's my take on it too. It made me thirsty. Had to have some water right away.

I'm not sure a thirst-quencher sports drink is supposed to do that.

I tried the red. It was a citrus-y flavor, definitely a developed taste. I could easily develop the taste...but it made me thirsty.

Must try the green. Sorry to have missed the yellow. It sounds like it was an experience!

Best description: flop sweat and sock juice--a tie with Yak p*ss. lol

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I never much thought about the health aspects, but simply liked/like the drink

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lots of people who do sports drink carbonated stuff. It may not be ideal, but ideal stuff is horrible, and so not really so ideal in the end

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but good and enjoyable

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The ones you find when you google "orange juice nutritional values" while trying to decide where to go for lunch and entertaining colleagues at the same time

Well...well. I went to Migros and picked up the usual "I have had this for 31⁄2 uears now lunch" and while goofing around I checked the label on 5-6 OJ's. They were all beween 9 and 15 g. sugar per 100 ml. so obviously google made my previous post look like it was written by a moron.

Shame on google

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Same old ... each to their own. I never ever drink carbonated drinks, coke, etc, but I actually love Rivella Bleu. You don't? So what

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well, it beats my sports drink of choice when I was younger, which was a lethal mix of Gatorade and Mountain Dew.

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Don't worry - it wasn't my point to be exact on the numbers but I was interested if the perception was that fruit juices contain ADDED sugar which of course they don't. Thats why your comment of "better eat an orange" interested me - because they contain exactly the same sugar content

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Is it as "healthy" as raw milk though?

Green Rivella + Chilli Vodka tastes like a full on ginger beer.

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They may contain the same kind of sugar (if the OJ is pure oranges without anything added) but not the same amount. It takes quite a few oranges to make a big glass of OJ so why not settle for less and eat the orange instead? I am sure a significantly amount of vitamins are left behind in the pulp if you only consume the juice. Maybe it is all fiction after all......pulp fiction then