Family sued after Sarah Katz died last year after drinking Charged Lemonade, apparently unaware of soda’s high caffeine content
Family sued after Sarah Katz died last year after drinking Charged Lemonade, apparently unaware of soda’s high caffeine content
A “cup” of coffee is typically an 8 oz serving. You need to look at it per volume to make an accurate comparison.
https://www.caffeineinformer.com/the-caffeine-database
In mg/fl oz:
Coca Cola is 2.8 (Diet Coke 3.8)
Mountain Dew is 4.5
McDonald’s drip is 9.1
Red Bull is 9.5
Charged Lemonade is 13
Tim Hortons brewed coffee is 13.5
Chick-Fil-A brewed coffee is 13.6
So, this lemonade isn’t actually that far away from comparable drip coffee, however, I am not sure whether the nutrition facts on the 30 oz charged lemonade is going to be inclusive of ice or not. Fountain drinks typically assume a “standard” amount of ice in their calorie projections, or you will see a calorie range on their menu to accommodate the spectrum of “no ice” - “extra ice”; if the 390mg of caffeine that they give for a large charged lemonade is for a 30 fl oz with no ice at all, then a standard amount of ice could bring it down into a more reasonable territory, but…
The thing is, and something I think folks aren’t figuring, is that most people are not going to be calculating by amounts like that. If you see a drink labeled as having as much caffeine as a cup of coffee, most folks are going to the serving size you are getting has the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, not that it has the same amount of caffeine per fluid ounce - that the 30 oz lemonade has the same amount of caffeine as a 8 oz cup of coffee.
I think we more or less agree. The comparison to coffee is valid per volume, but that’s not a mental math step you are likely to take if you’re not thinking about it very hard.