Rumours are circulating online that claim Evolution Fresh drinks are poison and that in order to save lives you should avoid drinking them.
An example of the rumour can be seen below.
Pls don’t ignore send to your family & friends immediately because the drink is already in Nigeria , send to everybody to save lives. These drinks are poison. Pls dont buy them
Evolution Fresh is a subsidiary of Starbucks and consumers in the US can typically find the range of fruit drinks being sold in the popular coffee chain.
However we were unable to locate any reports or other reputable sources that could verify the rather vague claim that the drinks were “poison” or that they were being sold in Nigeria. The drinks brand is US-based and according to a paragraph in their About section, it appears the ingredients are sourced inside the US –
Most of the produce used for our juice is grown in Southern California, where we get leafy greens, crunchy root vegetables and tangy-sweet citrus based on seasonal growing patterns — from farms in Salinas down to the southern Imperial Valley in both California and Arizona. Who’s tracking it all down for us? Our ingredient-sourcing specialists, who have over 51 years of combined experience working with produce experts and growers around the world.
Additionally there are no known product recalls for any Evolution Fresh product from the FDA. A browse of their website turns up only one result for “Evolution Fresh” back from 2012 and affected an “Almond Butter” product, but this doesn’t appear to be the same brand.
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If Evolution Fresh was indeed poison, we would imagine that considering a 2015 profile of the company claimed their California-based plant is capable of producing 9 million gallons of per year, reports of injuries or deaths as a result of the drink would not be hard to track down.
Alas there are no such reports. Given the warning doesn’t provide any sources or evidence to back up its claims that the drink is poison, and there have been no recalls of the product or anything about the drink on the FDA website, we can only dismiss this as a baseless hoax warning.
