My god, it's full of glucose.

[Gold Metal Flake]

It's like some strange, evil experiment.


The Unhealthiest Drink in America
Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake (32 oz)
2,310 calories
266 g sugar
108 g fat (64 g saturated)

Let's look at America's Worst Drink in numbers:

73: The number of ingredients that go into this milkshake.
66: The number of teaspoons of sugar this drink contains.
11: The number of Heath Bars you would have to eat to equal the number of calories found in one Baskin Robbins Large Heath Bar Shake.
8-12: The average number of minutes it takes to consume this drink.
240: The number of minutes you’d need to spend on a treadmill burning it off, running at a moderate pace.

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/5027/americas-unhealthiest-drinks-exposed/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. And I'll bet it's delicious.

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. More...

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/2598/is-this-the-worst-drink-on-the-planet/


The menu description may sound simple enough: “A blend of HEATH Bar Crunch and Jamoca® ice creams, chopped HEATH Bar pieces and caramel, topped with whipped cream and chopped HEATH Bar pieces.” But the ingredient list reveals a much more complicated story. Methyl paraben, propylene glycol, polysorbate 80: You’d need a degree in chemical engineering just to have a shot at cracking this brain-freezing code. All told, the list of ingredients runs seven inches and 73 ingredients long. Whatever happened to the days when a milkshake was just ice cream and milk?

As unsavory as this list of indecipherable emulsifiers, preservatives, and artificial flavorings may be, the most concerning part comes when you consider the sheer nutritional impact of this weapon of mass construction.

To give you some perspective, slurping up one 32-ounce Heath Shake is the caloric equivalent of eating 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, the saturated fat equivalent of scarfing 60 slices of bacon, and will give you the same sugar rush as working your way through 13 Haagen Dazs Vanilla and Almond ice cream bars.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Propylene glycol

is the stuff they use to de-ice airplanes. Yum.

[mike_c]

5. PG used as antifreeze isn't "food grade...."

I won't pursue that matter further, just wanted to set the record as straight as it can be set. It's a VERY common food additive.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Yeah, but I don't have to LIKE it.

[mike_c]

4. my pancreas died a little bit just LOOKING at that monster....

I gained ten pounds just imagining those 66 teaspoons of sugar.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. That is EXACTLY what I just talked myself out of not going to get!

Thank Dog you posted this imporatnat information :evilgrin:

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. 11: The number of Heath Bars you would have to eat to equal...one...Shake

Thank God for blenders.

[harmonicon]

13. +1

[LynzM]

9. Holy fuck.

I'm diabetic, so I'm really used to looking at carbs. Let's put this in perspective.

Most insulin I *ever* take for a meal, 5 units.

Insulin I'd need to cover that thing? 20 units.

Gross.

[AlCzervik]

10. and its gigantic, 2 pounds of shake, you'd need to wear your big pants if you were

going to drink that. thats just way too much, maybe in a smaller size, like half it would be ok.

[Richardo]

11. You get "Best Thread Title of the Day" for the gratuitous yet skillful '2001' reference

:D:thumbsup:

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. Thank you!

Yet, I feel I have failed because I could not find a pix online of Homer with that eclair bomb from the Simpsons episode when he was a food critic (?). As I was reading the article about this "dessert', I was thinking about the scene where the frnch baker was pumping a tankful of butter into the eclair.

[orleans]

12. of course it's unhealthy--it's owned by the carlyle group!

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Dec_12/ai_n15932092

on edit:
i have to tell my daughter about this crap--she likes to buy it and actually consume it
"worst healthy drink"
"Glaceau VitaminWater (any flavor; 20 oz bottle)
130 calories
33 grams sugar

[Left Is Write]

18. About this "vitamin water" trend -

Wouldn't it be just as easy (and cheaper) to drink regular water and take a vitamin supplement? "Vitamin water" just seems like a new and exciting way to separate people from their money.

[krispos42]

14. Yes, but do they give free rifills?

Mmmm... free refills...

:drool:

[distantearlywarning]

15. My husband told me about this last night.

I just about fell over reading the caloric content.

11 Heath Bars to equal this one shake! 66 teaspoons of sugar! Unbelievable.

[DS1]

16. Everything in that is extreme, 32g of protein. Look at the chart in post 2

120% calcium. And it has nuts!

[Beer Snob-50]

17. my god!!

most of the unhealth aspects of this drink are more than 100% of your daily need of these items.