Ocean Spray deceitful labeling

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Well, here I have a half gallon jug of Ocean Spray.

Cran-Pomegranate.

Right above the 'ran-P' it proudly states: No High Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Colors or Flavors.

Wow! Sounds promising.

Now comes the smaller letters at the bottom of the label: cranberry pomegranate juice drink blended with another juice from concentrate

Well, that doesn't sound too bad.

Roll the jug to the side: Contains 15% Fruit Juice

Hey, I don't care for the tone of this one bit.

Let's ease on down to the list:

Filtered water, Cane or Beet Sugar, Grape Juice from Concentrate, Cranberry Juice from Concentrate, Pomegranate Juice from Concentrate, Natural Flavors, Fumaric Acid, Malic Acid, Sodium Citrate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C).

I'm getting the feeling that I've been had!

Right up front where they display their 2008 Chefs Best/ Best Taste Award, which if you roll the jug back to the side it will further explain ...is awarded to the brand rated highest overall among leading brands by independent professional chefs., there is nothing but cranberries and pomegranates illustrated. If the juice is mostly grapes then why no grape pic?

Sorry, my mistake. It is Cran-Pomegranate. How foolish of me to think it might be a grape drink because it contains more grape juice than any other juice. What an out-dated notion for a simpleton as moi to cling unto! I'm cashing in on a whole 15% juice so I reckon I should be glad I'm not having to settle for flavored water.

If the 15% of fruit juice is mostly grape juice and your name of the product and illustrations show no signs of grape(s) then I feel as if you are doing your best to pull the wool over my eyes.

Out of the 8 fluid ounce serving size:
1.2 fl. ounces is fruit juice

The jug o' little juice was around 2 bucks.

For around 3 1/2 clams you get the O.S. no sugar added, 100% Juice, Cranberry & Concord Grape.

Only cranberries & grapes are illustrated.

100% fruit juice from grape & concord grape juices, apple juice, cranberry juice, pear juice (filtered water & juice concentrates), fumaric acid, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), natural flavors.

I'm glad the goobermint makes them list in the order from highest to lowest amounts. Now if they would force them to list the percentages.

It is tacky that Ocean Spray promotes attempts to deceive customers through their selective wording which compares favorably to a three card monty game.

Grapes and apples are naturally high in sugar so you tend to find them in drinks extolling their virtue of no sugar added.

If you are not completely satisfied with O.S., it's products or just want to tell them about my post feel free to dial toll free 1-800-662-3263 weekdays 9am-4pm EST.
 
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Go get yourself some of the organic (and non-organic, but natural, meaning no artificial ingredients) juices commercially available from the R.W. Knudsen Family. Now, this stuff costs more than Ocean Spray, but here's the ingredient list: FILTERED WATER (SUFFICIENT TO RECONSTITUTE), ORGANIC WHITE GRAPE, ORGANIC CRANBERRY, ORGANIC APPLE AND ORGANIC LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATES; ORGANIC NATURAL FLAVOR; ORGANIC FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICE (COLOR).

And the flavor is intense. So intense in fact that I usually add 2 tablespoons of cane sugar to relieve the tartness. It is still mighty strong, and you don't want to gulp it down, but rather sip it and enjoy. I have also had the organic blueberry and the black cherry. All are outstanding!
 
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Think I'll just stick to bourbon. My favorites seem to be all natural. Problem is, they are MUCH more habit forming than anything I ever consumed from Ocean Spray.
 
You think that's bad...

tang.jpg
 
Nicksterdemus said:
Ocean Spray deceitful labeling


If you are not completely satisfied with O.S., it's products or just want to tell them about my post feel free to dial toll free 1-800-662-3263 weekdays 9am-4pm EST.
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Nickster - let me get this straight............you want us to call them for you?
Have you called them?

I eat apples in the morning and they are real.
I hope you don't ever read the ingredients of HotDogs!:D
There ain't no pictures of Dogs on the pkg either!
 
Watch for my post, hopefully later tonite, about Nestle's coffee. I called them, and learned a LOT.

No time now.

Thanx for the Ocean Spray info. I usually just get their cranberry or cranberry-apple juices.

Of grape juices, I prefer Welch's usual dark Concord Grape juice.

By the way, George Welch was a member of the grape juice family. He was among the few US fighter pilots to score on the Japs at Pearl Harbor. Later klled in the 1950's while test flying a jet.

T-Star
 
Make your own! My wife takes cranberrys, a bit of sugar, and something called EverClear, (which I assume is very pure water?) and steepd it for a year or so. It's so good, she adds a little water to make it last longer! BTW George Welch supposedly broke the sound barrier in a F-86 before Chuck Yeager.
 
back in the day "everclear" was a brand of grain alcohol. something like 150 proof. was a long time ago and they say alcohol affects memory.
 
So what's the problem???????? Label says no fructose and by gum there ain't any. Just good old fashioned sucrose (cane sugar) which is better for ya anyway (and besides, we grow sugar cane down here :D).
Get the TANG-and here's a hint to make it taste better-use beer instead of water. ;)
 
lcdrdanr said:
Everclear is 180 Proof, 90 percent alcohol. It's ingredients are" "Grain Alcohol, Water".

I think

Dan R
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Your very close. I went and checked the label on the bottle I have. It's 190 proof. Grain alcohol, water.
 
This thread got me thinking. So I went to the fridge and checked the label on the "Motts Clamato juice" that I love. Yep, the only thing it contains less of then "dried clam broth powder" is spices, & viniger.
 
Sometimes I think we were better off when we didn't know every single ingredient in our food. One week X is bad for you, the next week it is good for you. Who knows what to think?

I know that people want to pay us prime prices for "organic" beef that is raised 100% on grass, no hormones etc. In fact it's to the point that if it is not 'organic' then nobody will buy it. Ironically, I think cattle that are feed at lest partially on grain produce much tastier beef, just like the old days when beef actually tasted good but didn't have the PC name.
 
I'm thinkin' this Knudsen family rocks. Anyone that produces a Black Cherry Spritzer is on to something.
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Can't knock Bourbon. I've enjoyed the call of the Wild Turkey and Makers Mark on occasions. As a matter of fact I have roughly a half a bottle of Wild Turkey honey liqueur. It's a cordial that dates back at least five years since stuffed in the trunk of the old Buick.
I'm going to stop before I cut loose on Canadian blended whiskey and it turns ugly up in here.
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The drink the astronauts took to the moon? Or the Nevada dunes depending on your conspiracy tendencies. I'm going on record as enjoying a shot of tang now n then. I just realized earlier in life that the warehousing/storage or tang maintenance, if you will, was too expensive and time consuming. I always thought that reconstituting freeze-dried tang was a labor of love.
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Hi-C as in Hawaiian Punch? Can you get a more syrupy sweet concoction? I have to cut it w/something to get it down the hatch.
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I don't advocate anyone calling & I haven't. It is all a part of my new truth in curmudgeon complaining policy targeted at folks that wish to participate directly, but are too lazy to Google or have yet to master research ala the world wide web.
However, it is possible that in a drug addled awakening, while searching for my spirit guide via mescaline, I sent a 200 page manifesto anonymously to the fine folks at O.S. Could be that a case of juice awaits the one willing to finger the juice is loose caboose.
Seeing how the holidays are upon us one might score a fruit basket complete w/mini fruitcake, a cheese assortment w/unleavened bread and Melba Toast or summer sausages of the world. However, I would not get my hopes up for any choclatier collection of Swiss, Belgian, Austrian, German or French artisan origins.
The fruit is better than the juice and the all American hotdog is proof that enough fat will render lips & taint delicious!
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Sip, Come to think of it I've never noticed a commercial of anyone busting a gaggle of geese swooping down on their cranberry bogs. Speaking of, on the back of the jug they go on & on about their cranberry bogs, wonderberries, magical nutrients, Native Americans & Pilgrims to the point where I feel springtime fresh as if I had just been cleansed by a nature trail stroll through a dewy meadow mist adjourning a babbling brook.
I associate bog w/peat bog and do not feel that image would be conducive to selling juice. What's a bog?

Type of wetland where decomposition is slowed down and dead plant matter accumulates as peat. Bogs develop under conditions of low temperature, high acidity, low nutrient supply, stagnant water, and oxygen deficiency. Typical bog plants are sphagnum moss, rushes, and cotton grass; insectivorous plants such as sundews and bladderworts are common in bogs (insect prey make up for the lack of nutrients).

Then again, this bog is making me thirsty, one never knows.
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I do enjoy the Welch Concord Grape juice and appreciate the addition of citric acid to help keep the sugar at bay.
I wasn't familiar w/George Welch.
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Everclear, for years I thought that was as much a staple of punch bowl recipes as Sherbet & Ginger Ale.
Unfortunately too much lounging at the crystal bowl can lead to loitering at the porcelain bowl.
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Sadly, my memory is very clear as well.
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I'm all for cane. All the authentic Mexican eateries as far as Memphis ship their bottled Coca-Cola from south of the border where it is still made w/cane. Coke also does a kosher run in the states, but it's two liter only.
Hell, everything goes better w/beer and some of my fondest memories of tang included mass consumption of Pilsner brew.
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190 proof. Ain't that what they pour on top & light in, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, zamboni shake? Come on it's only been almost twenty years. No, that was a Sambuca Milkshake. Come to think of it I believe the zamboni shake is an erotic Wisconsin art form of freestyle "dance" that's blended w/multiple shots of Jagermeister.
There's an instructional video in the movie w/Ed O'Neil singing and dancing to Booty Time.
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Everybody reads the label. That's why there's nevah any Black Cherry Kool-Aid in stock.
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The next guy down the pike probably wishes he'd read the label as well.
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The key to good tasting beef can be summarized in one word. Marbling...
 
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therevjay said:
Your very close. I went and checked the label on the bottle I have. It's 190 proof. Grain alcohol, water.
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I have fuzzy memories of a party when I was a hospital troop that involved a lot of watermelon "treated" with Everclear from large syringes and long needles. That and a mixture called "Caribou". No labels on that stuff but it was one bottle of sherry, one bottle of cream sherry and one bottle of Everclear.

Ever watched 30 inebriates trying to play volleyball at once? Priceless! That and the fireworks we bought which the local police came by to watch, what a night, I think.....
 
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