Dr. Mercola January 25 2007 3,632 views
There are countless things you can do to stop the epidemic of childhood obesity in your own home, but feeding them a snack of carbonated fruit isn't one of them.
Wal-Mart, that unholy bastion of inferior organic food standards, and 7-Eleven stores across the Southern United States are now selling Fizzy Fruit, a not-cheap fruit cup filled with whole grapes or slices of pineapple or apples exposed to the very same carbon dioxide that makes useless and unnatural sugary sweet soft drinks pop.
An interesting factoid: Just to complete the connection between soft drinks and Fizzy Fruit, the company's current president and marketing chief are both former Coca-Cola executives. So, that may explain why Fizzy Fruit has infiltrated the marketplace so quickly and, perhaps, captured your child's attention with all the kid-friendly imagery on their Web site.
Like other critics, I'm appalled, but not surprised, food manufacturers are stooping so low as to offer fruit in such an unnatural state. That said, if Cadbury Schwepps can get away with calling 7-Up "100 percent natural," no matter how unnatural it really is, anything is possible...
So Former Soda Executives...what to play a little hardball?
Welcome to The Big Leagues...
Carbonation increases the absorption of REFINED AND/OR STRIPPED saccharides into the blood stream at a faster osmic rate. This is scientifically and medically PROVEN, and not refuttable, even by your hired PR or spin artists.
Translated to simpler language...this product, just like higher carbonated beer, or sparking wines, gets absorbed FASTER (in these examples you get drunk faster from alcohol absorption even if it's alcohol content is lower than still hard beverages).
The naturally occuring sugars (23 grams of 100 grams per serving, or just under one ounce of sugars, to about 50 grams of water, and the rest perhaps other solids, but only 1 gram of fiber, that is in this refigerated product) claimed on this product's Nutritional Facts panel, means this product is adding to hyper and hypo glycemic (up and down) rapid blood glucose reaction in ANY ingestee.
By the way, guys, 100 grams for a serving size seems to me a very HIGH OR SANDBAGGED, LEGALLY NONCOMPLIANT & DECEPTIVE SERVING SIZE, to make the product's amount of sugars look smaller.
100 grams is 3.53 ounces of this fizzy product...a larger portion size than one sees on any other manufactured or altered fruit related products, like jams, jellies, preserves, fruit leather, fruit syrups, fruit cocktails, prepared fruit, etc.
Yes, folks, this fruit is manipulated with chemistry and altered, and not natural in carbonation, otherwise it would ferment into bubbly fruit wine.
Rapid hypo glycemic (down, or crash) reactions are known, and scientifically linked, to hyper-activity in pre-pubescent children (ask any teacher or mother about the day after HALLOWEEN PER CANDY INGESTION the evening before).
This product will most definitely contribute to childhood insulin resitance, hypoglycemia, and diabetes, at a minimum.
Additionally, this product will perhaps contribute to obesity and cardio vascalar disease, in combination with the sodas, which these former soda paycheckers were part of, with stripped and nutrient VOID High Fructose Corn Syrup laden products.
HFCS is the single largest contributor in the America food chain to obesity, diabetes, and cardio vascular disease (Greg Critser, Fat Land: How America Became The Most Obese Nation).
Do Tigers change their stripes? NO.
Does the world need fizzy so-called 'fruit'? NO.
I had not heard of Fizzy Fruit until today. However, thanks for the heads up. I am sure it will show up in this area sooner or later.
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