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.

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.

  • cheeseandrice@lemm.ee
    473·
    1 year ago

    My kids went and filled their cups with this stuff before I noticed what it was and then had to be the bad guy, telling them to get the Minute Maid shite. Definitely lowered my opinion of Panera.

      • cheeseandrice@lemm.ee
        472·
        1 year ago

        Separate dispensers like they said, but if you’re paying the meal and you tell the kids to go get their drinks and they want lemonade you have to watch out they don’t get the heart attack shit. Once you know you know, but I couldn’t believe that’s a thing that exists.

      • Ender2k@kbin.social
        2314·
        1 year ago

        No. Seperate dispensers completely.

        And clearly marked as Charged Lemonade with the calorie and caffeine content for both the 20oz and 30oz cups on the dispenser since they were introduced.

        • TJA!
          295·
          1 year ago

          Okay, but most people do not have reference points on how much caffeine is normal and how much is okay.

          And I also did not know that charged means it has caffeine, but that might be, because english is not my mother tongue.

          • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            194·
            1 year ago

            And I also did not know that charged means it has caffeine, but that might be, because english is not my mother tongue.

            Not due to your language skills at all; that’s just their choice of branding words. It may as well say “yummy”, “extreme”, or “wowie zowie”.

            Source: I speak fluent American

            • broface@lemm.ee
              13·
              1 year ago

              Nah. Charged makes more sense just like ‘hard’ lemonade contains alcohol.

              Funny watching you people get up in arms about the wording here.