Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

Komic Kaze — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:22:42 GMT

I make my own tea with tea bags, and mostly it is herbal tea, but sometimes I get into green tea, unsweetened of course, and there are interesting flavors and it tastes fine without all those God forsaken sweeteners that mess up your system so bad you don't even get the benefits advertised. I see those people buying that Lipton crap at the supermarket, the Diet Green Tea, which is loaded with aspartame or Slenda or whatever isn't natural and we wonder why we're so unhealthy. People want their sweets and be able to lose weight, too. If you want some sweets, eat a fruit, don't use Splenda or aspartame or even refined white devil sugar. Eat a pomegranate or an apple, or some berries. I've heard that white sugar is more addictive than cocaine. I can't be sure if that is true, but it certainly seems plausible, so how addictive are these artificial sweeteners that no one knows much about, except for what Dr. Mercola wrote in Sweet Deception. People still think that Splenda is okay and it's not. And those packets are made up of 99% sugar and a little bit of sucralose. What the hell is going on in thie country?

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

dar_3 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:08:27 GMT

In my opinion Coca Cola company is trying to immulate another product already on the market by the Eniva Corp. The product is Vibe. See the resemblance Eniva and "Enviga".

It is not a juice or a quick fix product but a tasty liquid vitamin/mineral supplement that contains the equivelent of 5 cups of EGCG in one oz....but that is not all...it has a heart, immune, anti-aging and immune formula in one supplement.

It was created by a doctor who's background is in healthy cellular replication and nutrient delivery systems. He created a vibration technology that gets the nutrients in Vibe to angstom size allowing it to bypass digestion.

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

annapavlova42 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:11:51 GMT

Many, many years ago when I was about 13 years old, my brother decided to do a little experiment. He took a piece of raw meat, and placed it on a dinner plate, and opened a bottle of coca cola. He poured a small amount of coke onto the meat. And within seconds, the coke had dissolved most of the meat.

That goes for all of the so called drinks, including liquor, beer, some wines, and etc.

This is not new news, manufactures have been getting away with this for loads of years. Today there is a larger variety of deadly drinks out on the market, which is one reason people are so sick.

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

happy2b — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:18:11 GMT

On top of all the bad things in pop and other drinks, I knew someone that used to work for Coke and HE said the stuff is poison. That so called freshness dating on the can, is not because the stuff goes bad. It is actually the date when it becomes too toxic to drink, for it eats away the inside of the can. They would write xxx on the pop that was dated.

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

mmc88121 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:39:44 GMT

This is obviously a marketing gimick by Coke to increase sales of a new product. What they don't tell you is the best way to lose weight is to drink water and avoid anything in a bottle, can, or box.

mmc88121

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

Aaron_203 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:36:38 GMT

I won't talk about the sweetener part as you have already touched on that. The part that I think really stinks on this is that the company is taking a very good thing (the EGCG) and turning it into a joke!

These companies aren't stupid. They know that there is a benefit to these things and more importantly (to them) their is a rising market. So they tap into it.

I think it goes without saying that the ingredients in this drink are nothing compared to drinking good old fashion Green tea (hopefully the stuff w/o the fluoride).

What we all need to do is pass right on by the product in our local supermarket.

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

Witch Doctor — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:19:59 GMT

BEVNET.COM lists the ingredients as Carbonated water, calcium lactate, concentrated green tea from tea leaves, citric acid, phosphoric acid, potassium sorbate and potassium benzoate, natural flavors, aspartame, caffeine, ace-k. I have seen studies, as probably most Mercola readers have, showing that green tea accelerates weight loss. My Chinese friend tells me that his Mom tells him to always drink green tea when eating rice, to prevent obesity - this is traditional knowledge in that part of the world. Regarding caffeine, most studies show benefits. It is the most validated weight-loss aid on the market. (My personal opinion is that it's a wonderful stimulant.) The problem with this drink is the aspartame. Outside of that serious negative, I don't understand why their claims are necessarily fraudulent. Just my opinion.
Duane

re: Lawmakers Attacking Fraudulent Green Tea Energy Drink Claims

Russ Bianchi — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:48:28 GMT

Let's hope this Attorney General really plans to follow through and is not grand-standing for reelection, or seeking higher office...we already have enough, if not an abundance of "Voodoo" politicans in America.

If you read my comments of a few days ago, when Dr. Mercola first posted some information on Enviga,you will find not only is this product suspect in dosage of any active components, but Enviga has intentionally tried to HIDE the sweetener(s) being used that probably partially, or completely, block, or negate, any metabolic benefit from the green tea.

Also, beware Pepsico's claim on their version of Snapple green tea beverage, claiming the most dosage (presumably of green tea or anti-oxidant effect) of any beverage in the category.

As with Enviga, Pepsico, FAILS to define dosage, over what period of time, in what specific individuals, under what rest or exercise conditions, or medical predispositions, or of what weight, height, sex, etc.

Folks, there are no reputable studies, independently verified, and not financed by the marketers, to back up their OUTRAGEOUS claims.

Should you believe anything two major PUSHERS of water, carbonation and UNHEALTHY High Fructose Corn Syrup daily sell, by the rail tanker loads, when it comes to allegedly new functional brands? NO.