{"id":5467,"date":"2025-02-20T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2025-02-20T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:35:00","slug":"it-might-look-like-a-sporty-hydration-beverage-but-hard-refresher-lightstrike-insists-it-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=5467","title":{"rendered":"It Might Look like A Sporty Hydration Beverage, But \u2018Hard Refresher\u2019 Lightstrike Insists It Isn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Some consider coconut water an excellent hydration option, though\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC3293068\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">studies<\/a>\u00a0and folks like the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/nutrition-and-healthy-eating\/expert-answers\/coconut-water\/faq-20207812\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mayo Clinic<\/a>\u00a0find it no better than plain water. Still, it remains a popular beverage, so it makes sense that some brands use it as a base for alcoholic drinks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Belgium\u2019s Lightstrike is the latest brand to booze up coconut water, albeit with a disclaimer that it\u2019s\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0a hydration beverage.<\/p>\n<p>From the branding and flavors, confusing it for a hydrating drink that gets you drunk seems pretty easy. The logo combines a jagged lightning bolt and a four-pointed star, and the current flavors include a \u201cnostalgic\u201d lemon-lime and an orange mango. Lightstrike goes out of its way to never mention Gatorade, but the similarities are apparent if one pays just a little attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/it-might-look-like-a-sporty-hydration-beverage-but-hard-refresher-lightstrike-insists-it-isnt\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some consider coconut water an excellent hydration option, though\u00a0studies\u00a0and folks like the\u00a0Mayo Clinic\u00a0find it no better than plain water. Still, it remains a popular beverage, so it makes sense that some brands use it as a base for alcoholic drinks.\u00a0 New Belgium\u2019s Lightstrike is the latest brand to booze up coconut water, albeit with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}