15 Year Old Vegetarian Kid Petitioning Because of Gatorade page

[mauler5858]

Drink Ingredient Gets a Look - Yahoo! Finance

The kid is 15 years old, overweight, and vegetarian. She is petitioning PepsiCo because it has brominated vegetable oil in gatorade. While this stuff IS junk, honestly(and I'm really not trying to be mean towards a 15 year old kid) shouldn't she be worried about the massive amount of sugar that is in this and the load she is putting on her pancreas among the rest of the large list of crap that is in there?

Thoughts?

[RitaRose]

Okay, your first clue would be the fact it's neon orange. The second clue would be that it takes more than 1 full second to peruse the ingredient list. But seriously - are we really drinking Gatorade for its natural, organic, healthy impact on our bodies?

My favorite quote:

The ingredient is added often to citrus drinks to help keep the fruit flavoring evenly distributed; without it, the flavoring would separate.

Euw.

[carlh]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this has fuckall with that kid being a vegetarian. Absolutely nothing to do with vegetarianism.

also

I have always been a fan of Gatorade, but I'm also really inquisitive and a health-conscious person

does not compute

[ryanmercer]

*facepalm*

[bloodorchid]

kid's 15, of course the crusade du jour isn't gonna make sense across the board

[RitaRose]

kid's 15, of course the crusade du jour isn't gonna make sense across the board

Truth.

I'm afraid to think what my crusade was when I was 15.

Probably that boys should be legally required to ask me to dance at Homecoming. Even on the slow dances.

[Gilleh]

Anyone else wants to pinch her chicks 'til they hurt?

[Derpamix]

Anyone else wants to pinch her chicks 'til they hurt?

creeeepy

[Karyn]

Gatorade is junk food. She is only 15 but if she was health conscious she would never consider drinking that stuff.

[Damiana]

kid's 15, of course the crusade du jour isn't gonna make sense across the board

I was a vegetarian pain in the ass.