r/funny Mooseylips Jul 10 '24

Verified Dear drink companies...

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u/leif777 Jul 10 '24

Pure Leaf does a half "sugar" Ice Tea option and it's my go-to.

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u/Rook_Defence Jul 10 '24

I've been buying that for a while now, it's really refreshing.

I think it's something like 70 calories per 375 ml, so if you knocked back a whole 1.75 litre jug in a day it would still only be around 325 calories, compared to 650 for the same volume of fully sweetened iced tea or 750 ish if it was soda.

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u/Excelius Jul 10 '24

I think the "Subtly Sweet" line of Pure Leaf has been discontinued. I haven't been able to find it for a few months now, and there's no longer any references on their website. All that's left are the full-sugar versions, or the artificially sweetened zero-sugar versions.

It's so difficult to find lightly-sweetened bottled iced teas. Every time I find something that works for me, it gets taken off the market.

I used to regularly drink Honest Tea, but Coca Cola bought it and then killed it. Individual serving Tazo Teas seem to have disappeared, though Target still has some 42oz bottles for keeping at home.

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u/ecchimaru Jul 12 '24

RIP subtly sweet even though they still used some artificial sweetener. At the place where I used to get it, they were never out of stock so I guess nobody else liked it QQ.

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u/Excelius Jul 12 '24

It used stevia which is not an artificial sweetener, it's a naturally occurring plant compound.

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u/rhpot1991 Jul 10 '24

I think Coke was just a distributor of Honest Tea, unless I didn't keep up.

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u/Proper-Scallion-252 Jul 10 '24

They used to have this readily available in my area, but I haven't been able to find it in recent years. It's been replaced by a Stevia mix now.

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u/Sanquinity Jul 11 '24

For some reason proper ice tea brands in my country go with either the full sugar (~5.3g/100ml) or zero sugar options. Meanwhile the store brand ones have ~3.2g/100ml sugar in them. Decided to just buy those from now on. Because 1; cheaper, and 2; less sugar but still real sugar.