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Smoothie candy

March 2nd, 2005 by Dave

This is the most distgusting thing I’ve seen in a while. Usually, fruit and yogurt smoothies are relatively healthy alternatives to other soft drinks. As Americans have become more concerned with their eating habits, they have grown more popular.

So the next step is for a completely unhealthy food manufacturer to co-opt smoothies and re-package them as a nutritionally-dubious candy: Skittles Smoothie Mix.

Go to the page and check out the nutrition info. In a few handfuls of sugary crap, you can get nearly one-fifth of your daily recommended intake of carbohydrates.

I couldn’t find any list of ingredients for Skittles on the site, but there is a page that seems to encourage kids to celebrate the cult of bad eating habits.

Just for the fun of it, I created a poll that you can take. You can vote here.

Posted in haphazard world

One Response

  1. Ezekiel Zechariah

    Sometimes I wonder if anyone has a weirder sense of humor than me. Then I visit dieiscast.com.
    You know I only come because I care about the culture in the new century… and articles like this make me think that maybe, just maybe, it is a futile struggle to understand at all.
    ♥ EZ

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David G. Schwartz

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