Leave it to the Daily News to shatter our misconceptions about local food. It turns out water ice is massively unhealthy. Unhealthy as in your typical serving of water ice today contains five teaspoons more sugar than is found in a 12-ounce soda can and comes in at three hundred calories:
There are nearly 300 calories and 17.25 teaspoons of sugar in a typical 12-ounce serving. That’s about five teaspoons more sugar than is found in a typical 12-ounce can of soda.A 150-pound woman would have to walk at a pace of 3 mph for an hour to burn off that treat. If she’s pressed for time, she could simply jump rope vigorously for about 30 minutes.For the record, when my mom was growing up, she recalls that water ice came in a 4-ounce cup. That’s half the size of today’s kid’s cup at local water-ice stands.To quote a late-’80s song by Public Enemy, “Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t believe the hype” when you see the phrase “Fat Free.”Don’t be misled by our national fat-free fixation. Sure, you’ll save a few calories because the fat has been removed. But, fat free, I repeat, is not calorie free!Remember that the next time you order a large water ice. Which, by the way, is nearly 19 ounces and 450 calories. That’s a lot of excess calories, and it doesn’t even include the “fat-free” pretzel many people get with their water ice.A typical 4-ounce soft pretzel is about 400 calories.
Leave it to the Daily News to shatter our misconceptions about local food. It turns out water ice is massively unhealthy. Unhealthy as in your typical serving of water ice today contains five teaspoons more sugar than is found in a 12-ounce soda can and comes in at three hundred calories:
