This TikTok user claims to work at a factory and they are showing followers how one of their favorite beverages is made.
If you have ever wondered how Gatorade is being made, this is your chance to find out everything that you ever wanted to know. We can’t lie, our curiosity was piqued as soon as we were made aware of the clip and we are sure yours is, too.
German Lopez has already received 4 million views for the video but it has since been deleted. His TikTok account is now gone as well.
In case you still haven’t had a chance to see it, Lopez is seen in the video opening up a clear plastic bottle and pouring red liquid into the sink. At first, we assumed that he simply had a Gatorade bottle without a label on it.
“Did you know that Gatorade is made at 180 degrees?” he wrote on the video’s text overlay. Of course, viewers everywhere were blown away by the fact that Gatorade is made at such a high temperature. This makes all of the sense in the world to us now that we stop to think about it.
This drink reminds us of Hawaiian Punch, in the sense that you can keep it in the fridge for days on end but it still does not seem to get cold.
Some wanted to know how the plastic bottles could possibly withstand liquids at such a high temperature but he had a reasonable explanation. “It’s actually pasteurized temperatures to keep from all toxins and then cooled after,” he shared, according to Newsweek.
Seth Goldman, the co-founder of Honest Tea, has spoken out about this in the past. Lopez’s video aligns with his findings. These companies use a process that is known as “hot filling,” as the product is heated in order to make sure it is sterilized and bottled so that it will remain sterile.
“To pasteurize tea, we have to fill our bottles at 190 degrees. When hot liquid goes into a plastic bottle, the bottle expands — that’s why when you peel off the label of a Gatorade bottle you see expansion panels underneath,” said Goldman, according to Newsweek.
To be fair, there are environmental benefits here as well. “There are obvious environmental benefits for such a package — such a move could eliminate up to 1 million pounds of PET resin on an annual basis. Another advantage of a lighter bottle is that it takes less fuel to ship [before and after filling],” Goodman continued.
Check out the clip in a commentary video below: