Soldato
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Not turning into an Oompa Loompa is the main difference.
Prime hydration
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Man of Honour
Why do people keep calling it a sugar drink when it only contains 20 calories 
Man of Honour
Same as full fat cokeWhy do people keep calling it a sugar drink when it only contains 20 calories
Soldato
Yeh, but water isn't fashionable on thick-tok with the yoofs.
Full fat coke has 35g of sugar in 330ml whereas Prime Hydration has around 1g.
What?
Man of Honour
A very quick Google says 139 and 140 calories.
Man of Honour
Full fat coke has zero fat in it yet it's still what it gets called, similar to this basically sugar free drink being called sugar water.
That was my point.
Have you tried one?Why do people keep calling it a sugar drink when it only contains 20 calories
It doesn't have much sugar in it but it's got a lot of sucralose which makes it taste like liquid candy floss, so most people just assume it's full of sugar as that's what it tastes like
Associate
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The people who mentioned SunnyD are spot on, I remember pestering my parents for it every time we were in a Tesco's etc as a child. Now granted it didn't cost £10+ but my God that stuff was addictive.
My local newsagents is selling prime for £11 and apparently has sold hundreds of them (buys them at 5 a pop though apparently) so the whole supply chain is a racket for it.
My local newsagents is selling prime for £11 and apparently has sold hundreds of them (buys them at 5 a pop though apparently) so the whole supply chain is a racket for it.
Man of Honour
Yes, horrible and my nephews, nieces and their friends think the same but it's all about the collecting.
Soldato
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Back in my day we collected Panini stickers
Man of Honour
and this is what I've tried to explain in this thread, even me at 65 was collecting ESSO football badges etc when I was a kid.
Your comment didn't really read like that though, and 'full fat' has been used to jokingly refer to quite a lot of things which clearly don't have fat in them, such a M cars and petrol back in the day when leaded was a thing.
However, plenty of people do in fact think that Prime Hydrate contains sugar, which isn't totally surprising and quite a few of its competitors (unless buying the diet version) are laden with the stuff.
does it actually hydrate?
Man of Honour
The drinks also include sweeteners in the form of sucralose. This is a calorie-free sweetener and is identified in the ingredients as the E number, E955
- Filtered Water
- Coconut Water from Concentrate
- Citric Acid
- Dipotassium Phosphate
- Tri Magnesium Citrate
- Natural Flavor
- Sucralose
- Beta Carotene for Color
- L-Isoleucine
- L-Leucine
- L-Valine
- D-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E)
- Acesulfame Potassium
- Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin a)
- Zinc Aspartate
- Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6)
- Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B-12)