When you’ve been on TikTok this month, you could have heard folks speaking a couple of viral new drink on provide at Panera Bread known as Charged Lemonade. It is available in three flavors, every of which incorporates huge quantities of caffeine and added sugar.
Content material creator Sarah Baus posted a video concerning the Mango Yuzu Citrus taste on December 8, and shared the impact the drink had on her. Within the video, Baus explains that she likes doing work at Panera Bread—which, notably, provides free refills on drinks—versus working from residence. She goes on to say that, throughout latest work periods, she’s discovered herself getting “4 or 5” refills of Charged Lemonade. However after studying what, precisely, is within the drink, she was floored: “This ought to be unlawful,” she says within the video.
So…what’s the take care of Charged Lemonade? The Mango Yuzu Citrus and Strawberry Lemon Mint varieties every include a whopping 260 milligrams (mg) of caffeine per 20-ounce serving, whereas the third choice, the Fuji Apple Cranberry taste, is available in at a mere 259 mg. (To place that into context, an 8-ounce cup of espresso sometimes comprises anyplace between 80 to 100 mg of caffeine. An 8.4-ounce Crimson Bull has 80 mg of caffeine, whereas different power drinks can sometimes go as much as 250 mg per serving.)
Moreover, the Mango Yuzu Citrus Charged Lemonade comprises 82 grams of sugar; the opposite two flavors include 65 grams. (FYI: The max quantity of added sugar an individual ought to intention to have in a day is 25 to 36 grams, per the American Coronary heart Affiliation.)
Remember the fact that these numbers account for one 20-ounce “common” serving of Charged Lemonade—if Baus actually did drink 5 regular-size cups of the Mango Yuzu Citrus taste in a row, she’d have consumed a staggering 1,300 mg of caffeine and 410 grams of sugar. For reference, you’d should drink greater than eight tall Americanos from Starbucks to eat that a lot caffeine and eat practically three pints of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream to soak up that a lot sugar. “I made a decision I’m going to water them down,” Baus jokes after explaining what she realized about Charged Lemonade. “I really feel just like the Hulk.”
Whereas ingesting Charged Lemonade isn’t essentially harmful, per se, it could possibly be brutal in case you’re significantly delicate to caffeine, Keri Gans, a New York–primarily based registered dietitian nutritionist and creator of The Small Change Weight loss program, tells SELF. “It’s very individualized,” Gans says, explaining that caffeine impacts folks otherwise. For instance, some folks have to chop themselves off after two small-ish cups of espresso every morning, however different folks can drink espresso properly into the night and nonetheless handle to go to sleep at an affordable hour.
The identical goes for the caffeine content material in Charged Lemonade, in response to Gans. “Some folks, that one serving can have no impact on them. Different folks might undoubtedly get the jitters; they may get anxious,” she says. It's best to attempt to cap your caffeine consumption at 400 mg per day, per the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA). Which means if a single Charged Lemonade is the one caffeinated drink you've gotten in a day, you’ll in all probability be effective (until you’re extremely delicate to caffeine). However in case you get a refill and/or have a couple of cups of espresso earlier than or after you down one, you is likely to be overdoing it.