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 Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:00 pm
In response to the fact that high fructose corn syrup is freakin' everywhere, I've become very appreciative when I find a product (particularly something like a soda) that doesn't contain it. Bonus points if it's organic, sustainable, or actually natural. Not the say that everything on this list is healthy for you. A lot of products (especially the diet ones) don't have HFCS, but instead have aspartame or sucralose, which is probably just as bad. Plain sugar isn't good for you, but it's a heckuva lot better--and consumed less frequently--than corn syrup. So if you find something interesting, whether it be candy, ketchup, soda, etc., add it to the list! If you've got an ingredients list for it, that's even better. You can find the ingredients for most things on the Internet, too. The List XingTeaJones Soda and other products: -- Naturals -- Jones Organics -- Jones Gaba -- 24C (vitamin water)SoBe teas and elixirsSoBe Life Water
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:01 pm
The IngredientsXingTea-Green Tea with Pomegranate and Honey Ingredients: Premium brewed green and black tea using filtered water, cane sugar, honey, natural flavors, citric acid, ginseng extract Jones Soda-Green AppleIngredients: Carbonated water, inverted cane sugar, citric acid, natural flavors, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (as preservatives), calcium disodium EDTA (to protect flavor), yellow 5, blue 1. Jones Naturals-Bohemian RaspberryIngredients: Filtered water, inverted cane sugar, purple carrot juice concentrate, pear juice concentrate, green tea, natural flavors, citric acid, malic acid, purple sweet potato juice extract, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), grape juice concentrate, vitamin E acetate. Jones Organics-Green Tea MandarinIngredients: Water, organic cane sugar, natural flavors, organic green tea solids brewed from tea leaves, citric acid, ascorbic acid.
SoBe Orange Carrot ElixirIngredients FILTERED WATER, SUGAR, ORANGE JUICE CONCENTRATE, CARROT JUICE CONCENTRATE, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM LACTATE PENTAHYDRATE, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), NATURAL FLAVOR, L-CARNITINE, ALPHA-TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, LOCUST BEAN GUM, PECTIN, CARAMEL COLOR, GUAR GUM, RED CLOVER (TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE) FLOWER EXTRACT, BETA-CAROTENE, CHROMIUM PICOLINATE SoBe Lifewater YumberryPomegranateIngredients FILTERED WATER, ERYTHRITOL, NATURAL FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), XANTHAN GUM, CALCIUM LACTATE, POTASSIUM CITRATE, REB A (PureVia Brand), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, COCHINEAL EXTRACT (COLOR), VITAMIN E ACETATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, GUM ARABIC, GINGER EXTRACT, DANDELION ROOT EXTRACT, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, NIACINAMIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), CYANOCOBALAMIN (VITAMIN B12).
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:41 pm
I've got a couple to start out with, but the first one I don't have an ingredient list for... I need to run to the store and get more, lol.
It's called XingTea, I found it a couple of weeks ago. It's "All natural, preservative free, no HFCS, sweetened with pure cane sugar and honey." I was extremely impressed with it; it tasted delicious and came in a bunch of different fruit flavors--my favorite was pomegranate. And the ingredient list was short and simple, and I could pronounce everything on it. I'll post the ingredients of one as soon as I find them... There's also a "sugar-free" line, I haven't seen any of it around here, and I don't know if it's sweetened or what they use, so it might not be as impressive.
Edit: I went and got some yesterday, so here's an ingredients list:
XingTea-Green Tea with Pomegranate and Honey
Ingredients: Premium brewed green and black tea using filtered water, cane sugar, honey, natural flavors, citric acid, ginseng extract
One of my favorite sodas is Jones Soda--they're very tasty, even though they're hell on your blood sugar o.o Green Apple's one of my favorite flavors, and there's 46 grams of sugar per bottle... Their sugar-free sodas use sucralose, btw.
Jone's Soda-Green Apple
Ingredients: Carbonated water, inverted cane sugar, citric acid, natural flavors, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (as preservatives), calcium disodium EDTA (to protect flavor), yellow 5, blue 1.
I haven't seen any in stores, but their website says they have a new Naturals line. It looks like they stepped back from perservatives, EDTA, and artificial colors. Go them; looks tasty...
Jones Naturals-Bohemian Raspberry
Ingredients: Filtered water, inverted cane sugar, purple carrot juice concentrate, pear juice concentrate, green tea, natural flavors, citric acid, malic acid, purple sweet potato juice extract, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), grape juice concentrate, vitamin E acetate.
And another thing I wasn't aware of until now: Jones Organics. They have green, white, and red flavored teas with organic cane sugar.
Jones Organics-Green Tea Mandarin
Ingredients: Water, organic cane sugar, natural flavors, organic green tea solids brewed from tea leaves, citric acid, ascorbic acid.
Jones' Gaba and 24C drinks also contain no HFCS, but I'm feeling lazy and don't wanna type up those ingredient lists right now stressed
Ok, next up...
According to their online ingredients, SoBe tea's, elixirs, and Life Water doesn't use any HFCS--if you find a flavor that does, let me know.
I'm much more inclined toward the tea and elixirs than the Life Water, which is just vitamin water with a bunch of "foreign language" ingredients stressed But here are examples:
SoBe Orange Carrot Elixir
Ingredients
FILTERED WATER, SUGAR, ORANGE JUICE CONCENTRATE, CARROT JUICE CONCENTRATE, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM LACTATE PENTAHYDRATE, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), NATURAL FLAVOR, L-CARNITINE, ALPHA-TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, LOCUST BEAN GUM, PECTIN, CARAMEL COLOR, GUAR GUM, RED CLOVER (TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE) FLOWER EXTRACT, BETA-CAROTENE, CHROMIUM PICOLINATE
SoBe Lifewater YumberryPomegranate
Ingredients
FILTERED WATER, ERYTHRITOL, NATURAL FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), XANTHAN GUM, CALCIUM LACTATE, POTASSIUM CITRATE, REB A (PureVia Brand), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, COCHINEAL EXTRACT (COLOR), VITAMIN E ACETATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, GUM ARABIC, GINGER EXTRACT, DANDELION ROOT EXTRACT, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, NIACINAMIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), CYANOCOBALAMIN (VITAMIN B12).
On a side note, lol at SoBe's No Fear website, it's clearly targeted toward a much different audience than its regular website. I got all curious because the energy drink wasn't included in sobe.com, so I searched and found its own little website. No Fear was what got me interested in the SoBe brand, and I still like both it and the elixirs. But, alas, it has HFCS so this entire paragraph was off-topic ninja
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:21 pm
Just curious, what makes you say plain sugar is better for you? From my research they're both about on the same level, although I have heard theories that HFCS is a higher diabetes risk.
[I'm on a big anti-sugar kick lately and trying to learn as much as I can] sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:57 pm
Allergic Eraction Just curious, what makes you say plain sugar is better for you? From my research they're both about on the same level, although I have heard theories that HFCS is a higher diabetes risk. [I'm on a big anti-sugar kick lately and trying to learn as much as I can] sweatdrop watch king corn for specifics. but HFCS is a gmo corn product thats from this GMO product that is then chemically treated. *a semi fact spoof link, shorter* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYiEFu54o1E*and someone anyone on here would love to listen to, a professional on the topic, longer and more detialed* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi6fK1PvQK4&feature=fvw
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