Propel Ingredients

When I looked at the old bottle (which I just bought yesterday), he said only sucrose.
I bought today in its new package (less plastic it says) and he now says high fructose corn syrup in this regard.
WTF? it was just added or it was always there but hidden somehow??

Anybody know?

Yes, they did. I did some research because it was my favorite drink: more. This is an entry that I found on the Internet:

I have a confession to make - my family loves Propel Fitness Water. A lot. This is my drink of choice when I'm working on, and my children enjoy the same bottle and more often than they probably should. For those of you who do not know Propel is a sports drink. It has sugar, but in amounts significantly lower than Gatorade and most other sports drinks. The rest comes from sweetness sucralose, which does not give me any warm fuzzies, but what can I say? Propel is a vice to me that I am reluctant to give up.

Former Propel - HFCS Free

A knowledgeable reader (Thanks, Michael Grier) alerted me to the fact that Propel Fitness Water has reformulated the drink include HFCS. WHAT!? This decision leaves me perplexed. Why would they switch to a formula that includes HFCS at a time when more and more companies are proud that they are HFC free? Yes, HFCS is cheap, and I guess that's what motivates their formulation, but they are missing what appears to be an effective marketing tool by adding HFCS instead of praising a product without HFCS. Whatever their motivation for the switch, I think it stinks!

Propel reformulated HFCS! Boo!

The "new and improved" (sarcasm drops) the list of ingredients:

Ingredients
WATER fructose corn syrup, citric acid, sodium hexametaphosphate (to protect flavor), natural flavor, potassium sorbate (preserves freshness), ascorbic acid (vitamin C), citrate sodium citrate potassium, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, niacin (vitamin B3), Calcium Disodium EDTA (to protect flavor), vitamin E acetate, calcium pantothenate (vitamin B5), pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6)


The official website Propel indicates that change is coming March 31. In the meantime, you can leave Propel know what you think of their inclusion of HFCs in the reformulation. And I will certainly let them know Propel spend with my wallet!