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Ingredients & Nutrition Information for Lemonade Kool-Aid

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Sydney Hornby, M.D.

Despite having relatively few ingredients, there is little nutritional value in Kool-Aid, a powdered drink. Now owned by Kraft Foods, Kool-Aid got its start in Hastings, Nebraska, in 1927. By 1931, the drink was already popular nationwide. It even sold well during the Great Depression.

Sydney Hornby specializes in metabolic disease and reproductive endocrinology. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he earned his M.D., and has worked for several years in academic medical research. Writing for publication since 1995, Hornby has had articles featured in "Medical Care," "Preventive Medicine" and "Medical Decision Making."