Panera now displaying warning about its caffeinated lemonade in all stores after lawsuit over customer's death
Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and died hours after she drank Panera’s Charged Lemonade, a large cup of which contains more caffeine than Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined.
All Panera Bread restaurants are now displaying "enhanced" disclosures about the restaurant chain’s highly caffeinated lemonade, a spokesperson said Saturday, following a lawsuit that was filed by the family of a young woman who died after drinking the beverage.
Monday's lawsuit, which was first obtained by NBC News, alleges that Sarah Katz, an Ivy League student with a heart condition, died after she drank Panera’s Charged Lemonade last year.
A large Charged Lemonade contains 390 milligrams — nearly the 400-milligram daily maximum of caffeine that the Food and Drug Administration says healthy adults can safely consume.
So, that is a ton of caffeine, but if you have a heart condition you really should be more careful about that shit.
I get what you're saying, but, for me, it would never even cross my mind that lemonade would ever have caffeine in it to start, let alone an insane amount like Panera has.
I mean, it does help to read the sign when you're getting your drink. The caffeine content is fairly clearly indicated.
https://media.greenmatters.com/brand-img/lawVs2pBc/1024x536/panera-charged-lemonade-lawsuit-1698159892937.jpg
It's called Charged Lemonade; that wouldn't give you any pause?
I would expect it to have caffeine content comparable to soda or tea. This 30 oz drink has about as much caffeine as four 12 oz Red Bulls
edit: It's not even behind the counter?? At least drip coffee, which is one of the only beverages that can exceed the caffeine content at issue here, doesn't come sweet enough by default that it's tempting to have a refill.
Drip coffee isn't kept behind the counter because people can overcaffeinate themselves.
First off tons of places put out drip coffee in crafts. Example Pizza Ranch. Many restaurants will just drop off a craft of coffee at your table if you ask for it.
You can literally fill an entire shopping cart with caffeine at the grocery store.
*carafe
Charged could mean the flavor, not stimulants, because it is a vague and meaningless term.
So you flavor your phone every night?
A person can literally just ask what's in it. You can do that every restaurant you can ask what's in everything.
You think the lemonade was electrified?
At no point in your life have you ever said that you need to electrify your phone. Or that your phone is electrified.
You know damn well charged meant energy. Be less a disappointment.
Well considering lemons have no caffeine to start, I'd assume it's like a regular coffee or soda. Not 12 of them.
It appears that it is like a regular coffee.
It's roughly the same as a cup of coffee. 8 fl oz cup of coffee is 96mg caffeine which puts a 20 fl oz cup at about 240mg and 30 fl oz at about 360mg. The charged lemonades have about 260 and 390, respectively. This is literally just a case of not reading the sign that clearly indicates how much caffeine is in each serving.
Soap doesn't have caffeine in it normally but I've known if caffeinated soap for about 20 years now.
And has had the caffeine content for both 20oz and 30oz listed on the sign hanging from the dispenser since they launched Charged Lemonade…
When was the last time you had fuckin caffeinated lemonade? How do you be careful about it when you ordered a thing that doesn't have caffeine literally anywhere else on earth?
There's generally a sign saying the amount of caffeine it has, and gets advertised as being caffeinated. Yes, people with food issues need to actually read stuff like that.
See this comment
It's called Charged Lemonade.
Do you know what Hard Lemonade is?
Oh and gfuel makes caffeinated lemonade.
Yeah, hard ____ is an established thing. More than that, it isn't sold alongside non-alcoholic (lemonade, cider, seltzer, etc.). Gfuel is an energy drink, it makes sense that anything-flavored gfuel will have caffeine.
"Charged" means nothing. There's no such thing as "charged cider" or "charged seltzer." It looks like a generic "flavorblasted-"style marketing term to me.
Because it's an established thing. That's your defense. It's an established thing!
You asked when was the last time you heard of Lemonade with caffeine I gave you an example and you didn't like it.
I know of caffeinated root beer. Been around for much more than a decade. You going to make a federal case of that too because root beer isn't any established caffeinated drink.
Also, because so much of your debate is it's not a thing it's not established...
https://sprecherbrewery.com/products/charged-lemonade-cans-variety-12-pack
You do absolutely zero research. But you're more than happy to stand on your soapbox and proclaim what you think as fact.