Thursday, August 21, 2008

Pocari Sweat

Your eyes aren't fooling you! This is a drink called Pocari Sweat! While I was waiting for my crepe w/ vanilla ice cream and strawberries at Genki Crepes on Clement, we saw this interesting drink. Doesn't the name sound gross? The color was like murky water and its probably what sweat would look like if you had collected it all and put it into a bottle.

From Wikipedia:
Pocari Sweat is a popular Japanese soft drink and sports drink, manufactured by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. It was first sold in 1980.

Pocari Sweat is a mild-tasting, relatively light sweet drink and advertises itself as an "Ion supply drink." Ingredients[1] listed are water, sugar, flavourings, acids, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium lactate and magnesium carbonate. It is sold in liquid form, in aluminium cans and plastic bottles, and also in powder form.

The drink is also produced and distributed in other regional countries, such as China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. In addition the drink can be obtained in the ethnic Asian areas of many cities around the world. The "Arctic Shatter" variety of Powerade-brand sports drink very closely resembles it, in both color and flavor.

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