[Sca-cooks] Flavored water- was Readability

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

All foodstuffs are labeled as a percentage of recommended daily requirement per a specific serving size, by law.  CFR 21 IS recommended, if you're interested; they have many pages on nutritional labeling.  Good for insommniacs.
Regards,
Brekke
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius 
  To: Cooks within the SCA 
  Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Flavored water- was Readability


  On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 12:50  PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
  >  'Lainie inquired:
  >> Where? What is it called? Sounds like just the sort of thing I'd 
  >> like- I've
  >> been drinking my water with a dash of lemon juice, no sugar. I'd be
  >> interested in a citrus blend.
  >
  > Well, i bought it at Whole Foods. It's got their corporate brand label 
  > on it ("365, every day value"). However, it also says, "Acqua Minerale 
  > Naturale d'Italia". The full name says "Orange, Lemon and Pink 
  > Grapefruit Sparkling Mineral Water".
  >
  > Quoting from the label:
  > CONTAINS:
  > Carbonated (sparkling) mineral water, natural orange, lemon and pink 
  > grapefruit flavors.
  >
  > There's no complete mineral analysis, but the "Nutrition Facts" box 
  > indicates, per 8 fl oz serving:
  > Sodium 25 mg 1%
  > Calcium 2% (but no amount of mgs) (and i don't know if this means it's 
  > 2 per cent of the water, or 2 per cent of one's daily MDR)
  >
  > So i suppose it's conceivable that it could be sold (under a different 
  > brand label) in an Italian or Euro or "gourmet" market, if there's no 
  > Whole Foods (or other shop owned by Whole Foods) near you.

  At the risk of sounding disparaging (and the exact opposite is what I 
  had in mind), it sounds rather like flavored seltzer, except this is 
  more like flavored club soda. Which I consider a good thing because it 
  demonstrates that similar products should be readily available to most 
  of us.

  As for percentages of minerals and daily MDR's, I'd bet on those being 
  percentages of MDR's, since they seem contingent on an 8-ounce serving. 
  Otherwise, what difference would it make?

  Adamantius

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