Grape Juice Concentrate

What is it?

Published on April 28, 2005 By Danny Bassette In Blogging

Ingredients: Filtered Water, Grape Juice Concentrate (Filtered Water, Grape Juice Concentrate), Grape Juice, Calcium Gluconate, Malic Acid, Natural Flavor, Sodium Citrate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Calcium Lactate, Sucralose (Splenda Brand), Acesulfame Potassium
Filtered Water
First ingredient, makes sense too. Of course it's has alot of water, everything has water in it. And in this case, since it's the 'light' grape juice, it's probably more then half water as it is. Half the calories, half the juice, right?
Grape Juice Concentrate
This is where things start to get weird.
(filtered water,
Ok, more water, more dilution, this is ok.
grape juice concentrate)
Huh? One of the ingredients is itself? So that ingredient also includes filtered water and grape juice concentrate? Recursive ingredients. So grape juice concentrate must be dehydrated grape juice or some such, right?
Grape Juice
Wait, if this is juice, then what's the previous ingredient? Is juice concentrate not made from juice? Does not make sense.
Calcium Gluconate, Malic Acid
No idea, don't really care.
Natural Flavor
Why do I suspect this is completly unnatural and is only a title given to this thing, whatever it actually is? After all, if this includes actual juice, why would it need a natural flavor as well? And what is it a flavor of?
Sodium Citrate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Calcium Lactate, Sucralose (Splenda Brand), Acesulfame Potassium
Again, no idea and don't much care, strange sounding names, probably cancer causing too.
The things I read while drinking juice. I just don't understand these things. Good thing I just want flavored water then

Comments

foreverserenity

on Apr 28, 2005

Very amusing Danny! I never noticed all the stuff they put in the juice - not all the time anyway!

Moderateman

on Apr 28, 2005

cute observations danny boyo.

MasonM

on Apr 28, 2005

That "natural flavor" thing has always bothered me. Natural flavor could be rat droppings for all we know. They're natural aren't they?

Shigoki

on Apr 28, 2005

"Natural Flavor
Why do I suspect this is completly unnatural and is only a title given to this thing,
whatever it actually is? After all, if this includes actual juice, why would it need a
natural flavor as well? And what is it a flavor of?"

I worked as a co-op in a research lab for a chemical company in Georgia for 6 months. While there, I worked with an ester compound that was used to produce over 150 different flavors. Check the basic idea here: www.chymist.com/esters.pdf

This compound was derived from pine tree stumps that the lumber/paper mill industry needed to get rid of. Natural, see?

Danny Bassette

on Apr 28, 2005

foreverserenity and Moderateman: Glad you enjoyed it

MasonM: That it could be, but I figured it was something closer to what Shigoki said.
Shigoki: So now we know what those natural and artifical flavors really are, processed tree stumps...

Cordelia

on Apr 28, 2005

Now I'm afraid to drink Grape Juice.

I just told you on irc that I was getting back to work, and now here I am, not really working.

Dr Guy

on Apr 28, 2005

That "natural flavor" thing has always bothered me. Natural flavor could be rat droppings for all we know. They're natural aren't they?

Eeeeewwwww! You had to bring that in, and be right about it too!

Dr Guy

on Apr 28, 2005

This compound was derived from pine tree stumps that the lumber/paper mill industry needed to get rid of. Natural, see?

Gives whole new meaning to the term beavers! Gnaw, that must not be thit!

Manopeace

on Apr 28, 2005

Heres another one to think about.... the water we have over here is very hard and full of minerals. It ruins many a tea kettle with the buildup eventually. I stopped using tap water in the kettle and use only bottled water... same problem. Makes one wonder where the bottled water is coming from...

Ravenblack

on Apr 28, 2005

All the other weird chemicals are probably preservatives. Yeah i've seen that, grape concentrate, grape juice and then flavoring...grapes for grapes themselves can't make real juice for drinking apparently.

Dr Guy

on Apr 28, 2005

I stopped using tap water in the kettle and use only bottled water... same problem. Makes one wonder where the bottled water is coming from...

They aleady outed Dasani in England. It came from tap water!

drmiler

on Apr 28, 2005

I know a couple but that's all.

Sucralose (Splenda Brand)

sugar subsitute.

Sodium Citrate

preservative

Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)

vitamin C additive

Danny Bassette

on Apr 28, 2005

Cordelia: The way I see it you've got two choices: You can eat/drink some stuff that might not be all that good for you, or you can not eat/drink anything and starve to death. Although by this points I hope you're done with work and have gone home

Manopeace: Are there ingredients listed on bottled water? I should hope not...
Dr. Guy: Makes sense, it has to go through a tap somewhere to get into the bottle. Unless they grew on trees...
Ravenblack: Apparently not, it needs flavors and stuff to be 'real' grape juice.
drmiler: Good translations there. Considering the bottle said extra calcium, that's likely what Calcium Gluconate and Calcium Lactate are.

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