I zip into the next available convenience store and head for the coolers. There it is, almost calling out to me, a 20 oz. bottle of Country Time Pink Lemonade. Cheap compared to soft drinks, only $.99. I get back in the car, crack that baby open and take a couple big gulps before heading out of the lot. A couple of blocks away I hit a red light. While stopped I reached for the bottle and drank deeply again. Ahhhhh. Cold and refreshing.
At the next red light I reach over for the bottle and start reading the contents. Water, high fructose corn syrup, etc., etc., etc. All the usual suspects. Until about half way down there's one I hadn't noticed before on a food or beverage label. Ester of wood rosin. Say what? Does that sound right to you? Should any kind of wood rosin be in our food or drink? What else is it in? How much have I already consumed in my lifetime? Is it safe? Is it toxic? Why is it in there?
I was going to Google it when I got home, but you know what? I don't want to know. You look it up if it makes you happy. I'd rather not know.
7 comments:
It makes me happy to learn something. From what I read it keeps the citrus oil flavoring from separating from the carbonated water.
But the drink was non-carbonated. I'm going to die, right?
Let's hope...I want that Camaro!
Lemon in a Corona???
Probably in all sports and fruit drinks. It's not the wood rosin, that's safe enough, it's what they do to wood rosin to get it ready to use in fruit, all the chemicals they use while boiling the rosin down, much akin to meth only different. I recon they have proven it all safe enough. After all something is going to get us all, sooner or later.
I love a lemon or lime with my beer. I rarely read labels except to see maybe how much fat/calories are in something. Anything beyond that I don't want to know either.
Ignorance is bliss, right?
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