Something bugs me. I've got a drink here, its Allens 10 vegetable cocktail, but the brand isn't the issue as I'm pretty sure its similar to V8 and others. Looking at the nutrition label, they list the fat, sodium, carbohydrates, and protein, and then they list Vitamin C (80% of daily value), and then the kicker:
Not a significant source of other nutrients.
When I look at the list of ingredients, they list juices from concentrate of tomato, carrot, celery, cucumber, beet, green pepper, onion, lettuce, spinach, watercress. There's also some salt and lemon juice as well as "natural flavor" and vitamin C but no sugar or preservatives. So the only significant nutrient in the product is there because they specifically added it, not because it was in the food. What happened to all the nutrients that are supposed to be in vegetables ? Its not like it goes through some horrendous manufacturing process, they just concentrate it and then re-constitute it in a bottle and pasteurize it. Yet what you end up with seems to have little more nutrition than a soda cracker. |
