[devane617]

My lovely wife the RD/RN said this story needs to be spread far and wide: ‘Cans of diabetes’ Is an excellent way of describing this mess.

[AppyPappy]

Bojangles tea should be used for gestational diabetes tests

[blackdog]

Sweet tea is really just a glucose tolerance test with ice.

[Waverunner]

Bidenflation again, the sugar used to come in 5lb bags.

[HamiltonJay]

Sweet Tea is always HIGH in sugar... though less sweet that KOOL AID.

Kool Aid has double the sugar of Sweet Team, 1 cup of sugar for 2 quarts of Kool Aid

Sweet Tea is 1 cup per gallon.

I can’t say how McDonald’s makes it, but that’s the recipe I’ve been using since my brith in NC.

[SamAdams76]

People watching their sugar often greatly understimate the amount of sugar that can be in their beverages. It can be enormous.

Plain water and black coffee are about your only safe bets.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Why are these little Tiked Off turds only attacking McDonalds? McDonalds and others need to start suing these retarded little freaks. If people want “Sweet Tea”, that’s their business. McDonalds has every right to sell it. Southerners have been drinking “sweet tea” for decades. McDonalds also has unsweetened tea. Get over it and stay the hell out of their business.

[PGR88]

McDonald’s sweet tea specifies a brix (dissolved solids %) of about 6.2%, vs. a Coke/Pepsi who have a brix of about 11%

Note, your morning glass of orange juice has a brix also of about 11.8% (so most sodas imitate the natural sugar level of fruit juices)

So while McDonald’s sweet tea has sugar, its less than your average non-diet soda.

[rfreedom4u]

I only drink UNsweet tea! It’s the TRUE drink of Texas!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So what? Does anyone really think that eating anything from McDonald’s is healthy? Its called junk food for a reason. This is no secret. People should not make McDonald’s or other fast food a regular part of their diet. If they go every once in a while and have this ice tea, they will be fine.

[vikingd00d]

>>her emptying a bag of White Satin sugar into a bucket of tea and stirring it up

Sacrilidge! You don’t add sugar to the tea; you steep tea in the sugar water.

[Tennessee Nana]

I cant stand sweet ice tea...

I drink unsweet and if I go to an event wheres theres food I always take a gallon or 2 with me ...

[lodi90]

Well, duh. It’s sweet tea. Just be glad they are not putting corn syrup or other garbage sweeteners in there.

[ConservativeInPA]

So what? I make and sweet tea, but I am not diabetic or pre-diabetic, whatever that is. The key is to imbibe in moderation. I don’t eat at McDonald or at any other fast food joint. That doesn’t mean I want others to avoid these restaurants.

[Mr.Unique]

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Sugar in sweet tea? BREAKING NEWS!

[jeffc]

My son worked at McDees a while back. The description in the article is not how they made their tea. The sweetener was in a separate compartment from the tea in the machine.

He doesn't remember how much sweetener was added, but they didn't dump sugar into the tea and stir...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One cannot develop diabetes by consuming sweetened drinks or having lots of sugar in their diet. It's not good but that old saw needs to be put to rest.

"Cans of diabetically dangerous drinks" is more accurate.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I’d have been fired immediately, and rightly so, if I had ever posted video of my company’s operations without the company’s approval.

[MayflowerMadam]

Sweet tea: Pffft!!

[Cold_Red_Steel]

Anytime I drink cold tea I mix AT LEAST 50% non Sweet with the Sweet, usually a lot more.