(WXIN) — The latest TikTok food trends combine two commonly found words, “health” and “cola”.
In a video posted this week, TikToker Amanda Jones called it a healthy alternative to the classic Coca-Cola, or “healthy cola,” as she called it in the on-screen captions. Was introduced to the viewers.
“My Pilates instructor makes this drink almost every day. I think she told me,” she says first.
Next, viewers see Jones put a splash of balsamic vinegar in a glass filled with ice and fill the rest with carbonated water from LaCroix. According to Jones, it doesn’t matter which brand or flavor of sparkling water you choose. (She used guava croix.)
“I’m not kidding you — it just tastes like coke, and you’ll think I’m insane,” she says.
“Very good,” she added after taking a sip.
Despite her claim, many viewers didn’t seem to buy it.
“This somehow needs to affect your credit score,” commented one person. Another account replied, “This is why we don’t get advice that starts with’Pilates Instructor’.”
In the video, the drink looks like cola and foams like cola, actually Does it taste like cola?
The reaction was mixed among the people who actually tried it.
A writer with a guardian called the drink “disgusting” when he drank it in ordinary carbonated water. He said the lime-flavored sparkling water was a little better, but not so much. “It tasted like a nice Coca-Cola glass was left in the sun for weeks and started to ferment,” he writes.
Another writer at The Cut described the drink as “strangely pleasing” and felt that people who enjoyed the drink with apple cider vinegar would probably like it.
Jones then responded to her first video with a follow-up. There, after seeing her comments, she seemed to express a slight remorse.
“I’m arguing that this is just a joke because it’s just a joke. This is too much,” she said.
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