The Most Sugary Beverage Is...
A Baskin-Robbins Heath Shake.
It contains 266 grams of sugar. If you doubt me you can check the source here.
A quick glance might make you think it said "Health shake" - but no:
This toffee/coffee mix begins with Heath ice cream blended with coffee, Heath Bar candy pieces and caramel, topped with whipped cream and even more Heath Bar candy pieces.
Weighing in at 2310 Calories, this 32 oz drink (almost a liter) also contains 106 grams of fat. It is nothing less than astonishing.
Written By J. Foster
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn... I definitely read it as "Health Shake" initially. Not So Much.
The thing that suprises me is: More sugar than a slurpee? How is that possible?
ReplyThat drink definitely needs to be banned... That's just downright aweful....
ReplyBanned? Don't be retarded, just don't eat the damn thing.
ReplyMy Boyfriend and I make a point to share desserts like that. And yeah, that is a dessert not a beverage in the traditional sense. Even with sharing it you really shouldn't drink all of it.
ReplyI'm really surprised! I work at baskin robbins, and the exact ingredients are as follows: 7 2.5 oz. scoops of Heath ice cream (17.5 oz. ice cream), 3 oz. of caramel, 12 oz. of milk, and 3 oz. heath bar pieces. It's really not much different from any other ice cream or ice cream beverage, it's just immense.
ReplyI am a fan of sweets but I totally agree, this should be banned, or at least be made on 8-12oz so that it´d be less unhealthy.
ReplyIt comes in a 12 and 24 oz size... as do all drinks at baskin robbins.
ReplyYou people who want to ban things are just evil people.
What if you succeed in banning it and then they still sell it? You want some clerks at the ice cream store put in prison for selling a tasty dessert?
How many years in prison should they get for selling this? What if they don't go quietly? What if they resist? Have the police shoot them?
Here's an idea: Mind your own damn business and stop trying to make everyone's choices for them. Stop trying to be everyone's mother -- we already have one, or we're all grown up and can take care of ourselves.
ReplyHear hear. TOO MANY NANNIES.
ReplyBen, JimK, I agree with you, but I do hope that B-R shows in a prominent place what you're getting with this drink. Personal responsibility cuts both ways, after all...
ReplyAs far as BR needing to take responsibility is concerned, think about it... you're walking into Baskin-Robbins. What do you expect, health food? The name says it all: Heath Shake. Heath == sugar. Shake == sugar. Put them all together (with caramel, whipped cream, etc.) and what do you get?
I can buy that we all need to be more informed about what's really in the things we eat, but sometimes we need common sense and not a warning.
ReplyWhile I agree this shouldn't be banned, Baskin Robins should at least make people aware of the nutritional value. People should be able to make informed decisions. If they know how much sugar is in that, how many calories it has and they still drink it; then becoming obese is entirely their own fault.
ReplyI guess you can't tell any restaurant to BAN a food just because it happens to be high in calories. There are people that simply don't care if what they eat is high in calories. Back when I was fat, one of my favorite treats was a "Concrete Shake" from a chain called Culver's. It was basically a 24 oz cup of pure frozen custard with toppings stirred in, like a Blizzard. I think it had something like 1800 calories (not sure exactly) and if someone had told me that I couldn't have one, I think I would have been pretty mad.
People just need to be informed and educated about stuff...think about it: you're drinking a 32 ounce cup of ICE CREAM. A serving of ice cream is 4 ounces (1/2 cup) and one serving usually has like 200 calories or so. 200*8=1600 calories right there. Add in the whipped cream and Heath bars and it's not that unbelievable that it would have 2300 calories.
ReplyThanks for the facts. The amount of calories and fat it contains - no wonder it's so addictive!
ReplyThat looks like more like a giant ice-cream sundae than a drink! I don't think it should be banned, but displaying that calorie count (enough for an adult's entire daily intake) would certainly give me pause to reconsider...
ReplyMy husband and I might share one of these as a treat if we stumbled upon a Baskin Robbins in our travels. Going overboard once in a blue moon isn't a big deal. Ban it? Puleeze!
ReplyYeah, but even if you share, you're still getting 1150 calories, which is the majority of your calories for the day. Unless you're sharing with MY husband, who tends to eat like 3/4 or more of anything we "share".
ReplyBut it does just go to show how clever marketers are - I also read Health shake!
ReplyI am amazed that someone actually believes that this drink "needs to be banned". Are you a nazi? Give me a freaking break.
There's nothing inherently wrong with this treat once in a while. As in, a few times a year.
If some people cannot control themselves and eat something like this on a regular basis they have nobody to blame but themselves.
What should be banned are fascist do-gooders who think their values should be shoved down the rest of the population's throat by force of law.
ReplyI agree with what's been said. Why ban it? A 32-ounce shake is obviously the largest size anyway. It's not like people think it's healthy or anything. I used to work in a smoothie place and we sold shakes like this. The people who ordered them weren't under any delusion that they were being "good," they would usually say it was just a special treat. Which there is nothing wrong with. If you're consuming them every day, then OK, you might have a problem.
Reply56 teaspoons of sugar....WOW
ReplyAnd here I told my son the other day that Lizard Fuel was not a great choice because it had 33g of sugar.
Just a drop in the bucket, apparently.
Reply2300 calories? Are you kidding? That is more than people should eat in a day?
ReplyI have recently eliminated all simple sugars from my diet. Do you think I might get a bit of a buzz from one of these things or what?????
That amount of sugar is simply obscene!
ReplyAs much as I'd like to think that people are drinking this stuff of their own free will as part of an informed choice - I'm sure 99% of people who buy it, while suspecting it's not a healthy food, have NO real idea how toxic this stuff is.
It should definitely come with a warning label!!
ReplyI definitely read that as "health shake", it wouldn't surprise me the way some foods are branded! At over 2000 calories it's more than most women need in a day... and to think people scrath their heads at the obesity epidemic.
ReplyBranding does make a huge difference. Many would assume that it is healthy, however it clearly isnt! There goes a full days calorie intake!!
ReplyHow is the branding making people think it's healthy? It's called a "Heath Shake"...unless people are dyslexic or whatever, they're not going to think it's exactly health food.
ReplyWow, that's a day's worth of calories.
ReplyWhat the hell that theing is like eating a whole grown mans amount of calories for one day! can you say heart attack! god almighty what are they trying to do make us all fat as hell?
ReplyIts a "Health Shake" for Nicole Richie.
ReplyHuh. Sounds pretty tasty to me! I would think just a wee serving would be sufficient, though. I don't do ounces (once ordered a 24 oz. margarita in the States once. Whoops. That was a LOT of margarita!), but I would think that a small paper coffee cup size would be more appropriate of a size for a dessert like this. Banning it would be silly. Geez.
For the record, I read "health shake" too.
ReplyI don't get why they don't just say "serving size 8oz, number of servings: 4" that's how they usually get away with stuff like that.
ReplySeriously, if you can finish that, you're amazing, cuz I'm a huge guy and I can barely have 12 ounces of milkshake before I'm stuffed for 5 or 6 hours.
Most of the time you're in no danger because you CAN'T EAT THAT MUCH. You get sick of it long before your health is affected.
THAT LOOKS SO GOOD!!!
Replylets put that into perspective -------- who the hell would drink a litre milkshake??? come on...... put that to a 'more normal size' say 250mls sure its still 500cal but if you were to have it once in a blue moon it wouldnt kill you.... its all about portion sizes and moderation.............
ReplyDIABETIC COMA! DIABETIC COMA! Well, at least I found a somewhat satisfying way to die.
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