PANERA CUSTOMER SAYS SHE GOT CAFFEINE POISONING AFTER DRINKING CHARGED LEMONADE

Panera’s Charged Lemonades have been controversial due to the high amount of caffeine. For example, a large Charged Lemonade has almost 400mg of caffeine;

For context, a single 250ml can of Red Bull has just 80mg of caffeine, and experts say one should limit themselves to 400mg of caffeine per day.

In a viral video, TikTok user Olivia (@oshafff) claims that drinking two of the Charged Lemonades gave her caffeine poisoning, rendering her unable to move.

“All of a sudden I get so light-headed,” she recalls. “The bell rings to switch classes. I go across the hall into, like, the football coach’s classroom, and I just f*cking lay there. I’m like, ‘I need to go home now.’”

Olivia claims that she drank the Charged Lemonades before going to class.

“I get home, my eye starts twitching, uncontrollably twitching,” Olivia states. “My legs start twitching. My thumb gets stuck like this—I just cannot feel my thumb, can’t move it. And then I just start sobbing. Couldn’t move my legs, couldn’t control my body.”

“I figure out I have caffeine poisoning,” Olivia explains. Olivia’s mom then called poison control, who allegedly told her that she would simply have to “wait it out.” “It was so bad,” Olivia remembers.