{"id":113539,"date":"2017-08-23T03:08:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113539"},"modified":"2017-08-23T03:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:08:33","slug":"how-much-sugar-in-that-cola-panera-to-list-it-on-its-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/23\/how-much-sugar-in-that-cola-panera-to-list-it-on-its-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"How much sugar in that cola? Panera to list it on its cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113540\" style=\"width: 383px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PaneraLogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113540\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PaneraLogo.png\" alt=\"Logo of Panera Bread (Photo By Panera Bread itself., Fair use)\" width=\"383\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PaneraLogo.png 383w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PaneraLogo-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logo of Panera Bread (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=9383421\">Photo By Panera Bread itself., Fair use<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Panera Bread will start listing the amount of added sugar and calories on the cups for seven drinks, including cola and iced teas.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest by the company to appeal to Americans who are increasingly concerned about what&#8217;s in their food and drinks. Panera and other restaurant chains have been tweaking their recipes and removing artificial ingredients to match consumer&#8217;s changing tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Panera said the new cups will be available in eight cities this week, including New York, Chicago and St. Louis. They will be in all the chain&#8217;s more than 2,000 locations by the middle of September.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ron Shaich said the cups list the amount of added sugar in teaspoons instead of grams because it&#8217;s less confusing. \u201cI think the only people who really understand grams are drug dealers and Walter White,\u201d Shaich said in an interview, referring to the drug-dealing character from the TV show \u201cBreaking Bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 20-ounce cola is listed as having 17.25 teaspoons of added sugar and 250 calories. Panera&#8217;s blood orange lemonade has 8.25 teaspoons of added sugar and 160 calories, while a plum ginger hibiscus tea has no added sugars and zero calories.<\/p>\n<p>Panera had begun listing sugar counts near its soda fountains in March when it launched its new iced teas, lemonades and other fruity beverages. Since then, 8 per cent of its fountain soda-drinking customers have switched to iced teas and other non-bubbly drinks, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaich said PepsiCo, which provides the soda that&#8217;s sold at Panera, was told about the new cups, but he declined to describe the discussions. PepsiCo said in a statement that it offers several drinks with no sugar added and no calories, and that the company and Panera \u201care both on a journey to offer consumers healthier beverage options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Panera Bread will start listing the amount of added sugar and calories on the cups for seven &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":113540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5588],"class_list":["post-113539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","tag-sugar","mauthors-joseph-pisani","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}