Great Value Cherry Chemical Mix: Why this is not a crime?
America has been on increasing nutritional deficiency for some four decades. This can be the core reason for present spiraling national health crisis. From one side, you find sugar in every kind of foods, drinks, seasonings, sauces, etc. From another, artificial sweeteners are offered as a false solution for those who are hooked up on sweets. But this is NOT all. America is the nation which eats so many chemicals as nowhere else in the world. Look at this Great Value Cherry Limeade Drink Mix: This is a handful of chemicals; nothing more than that! There is no cherry and no lime… But it is so popular!
DyeDiet Doesn’t Buy It!
Great Value Cherry Limeade Drink Mix: Risk, Nutrition and Dye Content
Why ridiculous Allergy Warning on the container: “May contain traces of milk…” says nothing about a bunch of CHEMICALS??
Food additives to avoid:
- Red 40 is an artificial red food color. We have detected a whooping amount of 280 mg of Red 40 in every packet of the Cherry Limeade Drink Mix totaling 1680 mg in the whole container of six packets. Because every packet is intended to be dissolved in 2 quarts of water, the resulting concentration of the dye will be 140 mg/L which is rather common for dye content in American soft drinks (See: How Much Dyes Do We Drink?). A recent study found increased levels of hyperactivity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children consuming Red 40 and other chemicals. Based on the study, the UK food agency advises that cutting certain artificial colors (e.g. Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, etc.) from hyperactive children’s diets might have some beneficial effects. In Europe, Red 40 is not recommended for consumption by children. It is banned in Denmark, Belgium, France and Switzerland, and was also banned in Sweden until the country joined the European Union in 1994
- Aspartame, an artificial sweetener with highly controversial history. It was demonstrated to cause brain tumor in laboratory animals.
- Acesulfame potassium, is another artificial sweetener added to mitigate unnatural aftertaste of aspartame.
Chemical color of Cherry Limeade: This is Red 40 azo dye…
Other food additives:
- Maltodextrin is a kind of starch added to make you feel the drink less watery
- Calcium silicate is a non-toxic synthetic anti-caking agent, used in construction industry for insulation as a safe alternative to the natural asbestos a long-known to cause lung cancer and mesothelioma in human. Note, natural is not equal safe
- Calcium citrate is a non-toxic preservative which is also used as calcium supplement which does not produce antacid effect
- Magnesium oxide is non-toxic chemical added as a drying agent. It finds many applications in a variety of industries.
Although some of these industrial chemicals occur in nature it is very unnatural for a human to eat these pure chemicals. Great Value (WHAT A SARCASM!!) Cherry Limeade Drink Mix: gives you UNACCEPTABLY high health risk of DDFI = 32/3 = 11 coming with the chemicals and essentially ZERO nutritional value: DDNF = 3/48 ~ 0.06. Why to drink this chemical pollution, why?
Why feeding people with counterfeit foods is not a crime?
Why counterfeiting money IS a crime and counterfeiting food is NOT? Oh, maybe this is because counterfeit money hurt Wall Street and counterfeit foods hurt Main Street? Or, if Federal Reserve counterfeits money (also read this: Federal Reserve: Counterfeiting Machine) and this is NOT a crime, then perhaps that is why COUNTERFEITING FOOD is NOT a crime either! But this is what destroys the Nation’s health: Imagine, a mom buying this ridiculous mixture of chemicals for her lovely children hoping to make a fruity beverage for them… (Please watch this VIDEO: Food Dyes and Behavior: A Different View). Why to sell chemicals to ignorant population under pretense of fruity drinks is not a crime? Is this just because they are not dying a minute after? Is slow chronic poisoning allowed in the “free country”? (Read: A fast-food, sugar fiasco).
Bottom line. Great Value Cherry Limeade Drink Mix is a terrible chemical hazard which no one should sell or buy. Not to mention, it should never be used to make a “drink” for children. Consider Sparkling Concord Grape instead for the same price, by the way!
Category: Food Dyes Exposure, Food Terrorism, Soft drinks
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What can you do if you want REAL cherry limeade (no artificial stuff, made with real cherries and limes?
Well, first we need to read the labels and not to buy chemical fake food. Secondly, the best way would be to buy fresh, frozen or dried (read the labels; they sometimes add artificial dyes to it!) fruits and make your favorite beverage from it.
I am selling REAL cherry limeade. It is made with all natural ingredients and no artificial stuff. It is made with 30% fruit and juice. It is exclusive to Whole Foods and costs 4 times as much as this chemically polluted limeade, which is 7.92 (!). It is good source of 19 vitamins and minerals. Ingredients: water, limes juice, cherry juice from concentrate, sugar, stevia extract, citric acid, natural flavors, natural tocopherols including vitamin E to preserve freshness, vitamin A (50%), vitamin B6 (25%), vitamin B12 (25%), vitamin C (120%), vitamin D (30%), vitamin E (40%), vitamin K (20%), calcium (10%), iron (6%), thiamin (25%), niacin (25%), magnesium (25%), folic acid (3%), copper (10%), manganese (20%), chromium (10%), riboflavin (30%), pyridoxine (20%), thiamine (15%). What would be the DDRF, DDFI, and DDNF for this product?
This is rather nutritious beverage every kid may enjoy drinking in moderation without any fear of being chemically intoxicated. From the ingredients list, stevia extract (natural sweetener), citric acid and natural flavors will be represented by yellow segments in the diagram as not nutritious but also not harmful ingredients. Therefore DDFI = 0 (no red segments) and DDNF will be some 2-3 that is very good. But remember, we need to cut sugar consumption to minimum. In this beverage, I guess, they use stevia with exactly this purpose. By the way, I am working to make my Risk/Nutrition calculator available for the readers like yourself, as soon as possible.
Can you review the Popsicles Airheads? Strawberry (red), Watermelon (green), and Blue Raspberry (blue) have artificial color. Mystery fruit flavor (white) has no artificial color or flavor. Ingredients:
Strawberry: water, maltodextrin, corn syrup, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural and artificial flavor, red 40.
Watermelon: water, maltodextrin, corn syrup, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural and artificial flavor, yellow 5, blue 1.
Blue Raspberry: water, maltodextrin, corn syrup, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural and artificial flavor, blue 1.
Mystery flavor: water, maltodextrin, corn syrup, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural flavor.
As far as I can see from the lists, only Mystery flavor is safe for children. BTW I have reviewed sugar free Popsicle: http://www.dyediet.com/2012/05/09/dairy-products/ice-cream/sugar-free-popsicles-eat-away-your-health/ and recommended the one based on juices from concentrate right next on the same shelf.
What would be the DDRF, DDFI, and DDNF of each of the pops?
Once I have made a typo in my earlier post: The first index you have listed should be DDRS ( not F in the end…) which is simple sum of all DDRFs (Risk Factors) for evry ingrediet. I will give you the numbers you requested later on.
My healthy drinks are exclusive to Whole Foods (including my clear cola) and are very expensive.
Sweetened drinks, like candy, are intended as occasional treats, not for every day drinking in place of water. For this reason the price should NOT be important.
My drinks will have a low cal blend of sweeteners (including stevia, erythritol, & xylitol).
That’s good. Do you formulate them by yourself or you resell?
I change the ingredients to all natural ones then resell as a different name.
Well done!