Reply from Arizona Iced Tea

I wrote to Arizona about their diet tea. For example, the
ingredients lists peach juice, raspberry juice, etc., but
the calorie and carb count are zero. Here is their reply.
Does this mean the same as if a product has 0.5 gm, it is
listed as zero?


"Thank you for your email. According to Nutritional label
laws, when your product contains less than 4% of the daily
nutritional value of sugar, you must claim a 0 on your
label. Same with carbs. Hope this helps and thanks
for your continued support of AriZona!"

Marsha/Ohio

In article , says...
I wrote to Arizona about their diet tea. For example, the
ingredients lists peach juice, raspberry juice, etc., but
the calorie and carb count are zero. Here is their reply.
Does this mean the same as if a product has 0.5 gm, it is
listed as zero?


"Thank you for your email. According to Nutritional label
laws, when your product contains less than 4% of the daily
nutritional value of sugar, you must claim a 0 on your
label. Same with carbs. Hope this helps and thanks
for your continued support of AriZona!"


Sugar has DAILY nutritional value, as in a RECOMMENDED Daily Allowance? They
might want to rethink their wording on THAT! They MUST claim zero or CAN?

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Saffire
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:09:27 -0800, Saffire
wrote:

In article ,
says...
I wrote to Arizona about their diet tea. For example, the
ingredients lists peach juice, raspberry juice, etc., but
the calorie and carb count are zero. Here is their reply.
Does this mean the same as if a product has 0.5 gm, it is
listed as zero?


"Thank you for your email. According to Nutritional label
laws, when your product contains less than 4% of the daily
nutritional value of sugar, you must claim a 0 on your
label. Same with carbs. Hope this helps and thanks
for your continued support of AriZona!"


Sugar has DAILY nutritional value, as in a RECOMMENDED Daily Allowance?
They
might want to rethink their wording on THAT! They MUST claim zero or
CAN?


Wouldn't 4% be a lot? Since I ignore the "daily nutritional value," I
don't even know what 4% would be.


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Bob in CT
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I'm not sure about sugar per se, however most nutritional labels
express carbs as a percentage. I'm not a nutritionist, but I grabbed
some random packages from my company cafeteria and did some algebra,
it looks like 100% RDA of carbs is about 285 grams.

Which means that 4% of 285 is about 11.4 grams of carbs. I guess I
don't have to say that is significant in counting carbs.

In terms of saying that the MUST list that as Zero, that is a load of
bull. I'm in sales for a living, and a stupid mistake that I see BAD
salespeople make is to address a customer's objection by lying and
making up a bogus requirement instead of truly addressing the
customer's concern.

Makes me happy that I recently found Veryfine Fruit20


My 4% of knowledge....


~ Kara


Bob in CT wrote in message ...
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:09:27 -0800, Saffire
wrote:

In article ,
says...
I wrote to Arizona about their diet tea. For example, the
ingredients lists peach juice, raspberry juice, etc., but
the calorie and carb count are zero. Here is their reply.
Does this mean the same as if a product has 0.5 gm, it is
listed as zero?


"Thank you for your email. According to Nutritional label
laws, when your product contains less than 4% of the daily
nutritional value of sugar, you must claim a 0 on your
label. Same with carbs. Hope this helps and thanks
for your continued support of AriZona!"


Sugar has DAILY nutritional value, as in a RECOMMENDED Daily Allowance?
They
might want to rethink their wording on THAT! They MUST claim zero or
CAN?


Wouldn't 4% be a lot? Since I ignore the "daily nutritional value," I
don't even know what 4% would be.


--------
Bob in CT
Remove ".x" to reply

Kara~ wrote:

I'm not sure about sugar per se, however most nutritional labels
express carbs as a percentage. I'm not a nutritionist, but I grabbed
some random packages from my company cafeteria and did some algebra,
it looks like 100% RDA of carbs is about 285 grams.

Which means that 4% of 285 is about 11.4 grams of carbs. I guess I
don't have to say that is significant in counting carbs.

In terms of saying that the MUST list that as Zero, that is a load of
bull. I'm in sales for a living, and a stupid mistake that I see BAD
salespeople make is to address a customer's objection by lying and
making up a bogus requirement instead of truly addressing the
customer's concern.

Well, I don't think I will be drinking their tea anymore,
even if your calculations aren't correct. I just didn't
like their response i.e. "We HAVE to list it.....

Marsha/Ohio