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Is Sunny D a fake orange juice?
Sunny D is said to be a “fake” orange juice. Sunny D comes off like its real juice and is one the best brands that does so. In supermarkets it is many times place next to the real orange juices. Parents and many consumers can easily be deceived.
Is Sunny D Juice bad for You?
Sunny D is just like any other sugary drink but because of the way the company markets the juice, it is perceived as real, which makes it easier for them to sell Sunny D for more. On the bright side Sunny D does contain 100% of your daily vitamin C intake but because of the high sugar, sodium and carbohydrates, its still not the healthiest choice.
Does Sunny Delight contain concentrated juice?
As of 2013, North American Sunny Delight contained less than 2% concentrated fruit juice. In the United Kingdom, there were many negative press reports about the product, following an investigation by The Food Commission, an independent consumer organisation in the United Kingdom.
Is SunnyD a good source of vitamin D?
Despite the name, SunnyD is not a high source of vitamin D; however, it contains significant amounts of vitamin C. SunnyD started out with only one flavor: orange.
Reach for the Sun Bottle Hunt
In the middle of the 1990s, Sunny Delight sponsored an early internet contest promoting their beverage. For the game, the "Reach for the Sun Bottle Hunt", simple graphics depicting Sunny Delight bottles were incorporated into independent American web sites. The site locations were various personal home pages or more well known internet resources.
Peel 'n Taste Flavor Strips
In July 2009, to promote the company's Sunny Delight Smoothies, the company partnered with Food Lion supermarkets to place SunnyD Smoothies Peel 'n Taste flavor samplers in the aisles where Sunny Delight products were located.
Reformulation
In recent years, the artificial sweetener sucralose has been added in combination with high fructose corn syrup, in order to cut the calorie count.
