The other day some chick in my class claimed that Sunny Delight actually contains lard. Knowing her to be a bit of an idiot, I took this info with a grain of salt. However, I have noticed that Sunny Delight seems a little “thicker” than other juice. So, I turn this over to you guys, who seem a lot smarter than her.
Does anyone know any label euphemisms for good ol’ “Lard”? (Obviously, the label on the bottle of S.D. did not claim to have any beef fat in it)
I think if it is lard, it has to say “lard” or at least something about animal fat. I do recall reading somewhere that SD contains vegetable oil of some sort, not to mention lots of sugar and preservatives and not much juice.
I don’t know anything about it containing lard, but I bet a Sunny Delight Mimosa would be a fun alternative in a pinch. Well provided you have a drier champagne. I used to make it with 5 Alive years ago…good stuff.
This link has nutritional info and ingredients for Sunny D. I don’t know if it’s accurate, but until I’m at a convenience store and think to check it first hand, I’ll go with this.
No fat grams, and nothing about lard listed in the ingredients. Miss G, I think the chick may be thinking of something else.
Mr. K’s Link of the Month:
I couldn’t find the ingredients at P&G’s web site for Sunny D. You link lists them, Mr.K, but I see that Miss Gretchen is writing from Canada, and there may be different ingredients in hers than in the U.S. Although maybe your link is a Canadian site.
People, I am holding in my hand a gallon of Sunny Delight, California Style (Florida style=spawn of Satan).
No lard, though Safflower oil is an ingredient – 8th ingredient, after the vitamin fortifications. Also present are the following thickeners: food starch, xanthan gum,& cellulose gum. What, no carageenan!?
the official site is found at http://www.sunnyd.com and includes Canadian info, though not ingredient labels.
mmm, tangy…
I tasted SD once…absolutely disgusting!
And after reading the ingredients I suppose it could substitute for formaldehyde, or possibly coolant, but it’s nothing I want in my body!
VB
“Hey! How 'bout that Toe Jam?”
I would never classify it as orange juice. I don’t believe they could legally call it orange juice either.
My opinion. It tastes like shit.
I don’t know about that! I never tasted shit for a comparsion!
Once when I was real thirsty I bought a bottle of the stuff that the television was flooded with, aimed directly at kids, of course, and which they apparently went for like an addict goes after heroin. I was not pleased with the odd orange hue, but I supposed it was designed mainly for those under 16 and tried it.
The stuff is crap! Disgusting! Kids cannot actually be so stupid as to like that stuff can they? Even the high charge of sugar did not help and the taste was certainly not any form of citrus I had ever sampled. I don’t know who makes Sunny Delight, but they have got to spend BILLIONS on advertisements to sell the crap and this is a good example for parents to try first some of what their kids are being brainwashed into drinking.
I could not finish it and had to buy a bottle of water to get the taste out of my mouth.
No wonder Big business keeps bribing congress to not enforce truth in advertisement laws. The shit would never sell if they showed kids spitting it out and tossing the bottles away.
Sunny Delight is, to me at least, too thick to drink and not very tasty. The thickness comes from the fruit - not orange but tangerine (so I am lead to believe).
What amazes me about Sunny Delight IS the advertising. No matter what your thoughts on corprate greed and the manipulation of an audience - you have to admit, the campaign for this stuff is amazing.
They took basically a thick fruit juice, put it in an odd formed bottle and gave it the nickname “Sunny D”. They refered to the vitamin content as “healthy junk” and showed young Gen-X’ers drinking it on their skateboards.
The stuff sold through the roof. It amazes me to the point where I actually make an assignment for my students from it. (advertising students). I have them drink a bottle. Their response is tepid at best. I show them some spots. Then I ask them to tell me why the Sunny Delight’s campaign was so successful selling this dull beverage.
There are three kinds of people: Those who can count and those who can’t.
lard=fat
So, look at the nutrition label & if it has any daily fat % it must have some fat in it.
Close, but no cigar. Lard = fat but there are different types of fat, like vegetable oils and animal oils. Animal and some vegetable oils contain cholosterol. Several forms of vegetable oils contain none.
All oils, curiously enough, generate the same amount of calories.
What? Me worry?’
I haven’t read the ingredients label in awhile, but I will swear that it does NOT contain lard. I am severely allergic to pork and lard, and I’ve had no allergic reaction to drinking SD. Lard will be listed on ingredient labels as “lard” or “animal fat”. Beef fat is “tallow” or “animal fat”.
Maybe I should add that pig fat is lard, nothing else. Cow fat is tallow. Vegetable oil is usually soy fat.
After passing this thread by for the last several days I finally dropped by to see what was going on. And the answer is nothing.
Since Dec.15 there have been several people who have admitted they spent the money to spit this vile drink out…but nobody spent the money to read the ingredients.
It is late and I have no SD around to refer to, but I do believe lard and tallow solidify at the temperatures Sunny Delight is supposed to be served (so friggin’ cold it kills your taste buds).
Whoops! Missed rmariamps post.
On a hot day in July in El Paso several years ago we passed out cold Sunny Delight by the caseful to several thousand people at McKelligan Canyon Theater (outdoor theater–close to where MajorMD works).
When our show was over and people left, they left behind bottle after bottle of the stuff nearly full. One swig and most people decided they’d rather go by dehydration.
You can make a mean punch with Sunny D, Hawain Punch, Ginger Ale and Captain Morgan’s spiced rum. I’d leave out the lard tho.
As previously mentioned, There are now two “styles” of SunnyD. I used to be repulsed by Sunny D, but I recently drank some of the California Style, and found it inexplicably tasty – not unlike Tang in flavor (hint: if you don’t like Tang…)
I tried Florida Style again – yep, just as repulsive as ever.
—One woman’s exploration of Today’s citrus-flavored consumer products —
rmariamp (btw, it’s 5% juice)
Fats and oils are basically the same kind of substances chemically. The main distinction between the two has to do with their phase at some specific temperature. If they’re liquid at that temperature, they’re “oils”; if they’re congealed, they’re “fats”.
I think the main thickeners in SunnyD (I cannot bring myself to use the word “delight” in conjunction with that foul substance) are the carrageenan and xanthan gums. I’m sure that using a viscometer you could measure the difference between pure water and 6.4 ounces of orange or tangerine juice with enough water to make up a gallon of liquid, but I doubt it would be so high you’d notice without measuring it.
There ARE beverages sold in the soda aisle which taste worse than SunnyD; Shasta’s “Horchata” flavor is one such. You have to look pretty hard to find them, though. SunnyD is VILE.