Re: Pork Roast and Diet Coke

[Guest guest]

Don't the natural flavors and caramel color make it illegal though?

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> > I can practically feel it eating out the lining of my stomach and gut, even

just reading about it! Ugh.

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> > > The ingredients in Diet Coke (as formulated in the United States),

> > > listed in order of greatest to least amount:[13]

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> > > * Carbonated water

> > > * Caramel color

> > > * Aspartame

> > > * Phosphoric acid

> > > * Potassium benzoate (to protect taste)

> > > * Natural flavors

> > > * Citric acid

> > > * Caffeine

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[Guest guest]

And round and round we go.

Read the thread.

Mara

> Don't the natural flavors and caramel color make it illegal though?

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> Holly

> Crohn's

> SCD 12/01/08

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>>> I can practically feel it eating out the lining of my stomach and gut, even

just reading about it! Ugh.

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>>>> The ingredients in Diet Coke (as formulated in the United States),

>>>> listed in order of greatest to least amount:[13]

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>>>> * Carbonated water

>>>> * Caramel color

>>>> * Aspartame

>>>> * Phosphoric acid

>>>> * Potassium benzoate (to protect taste)

>>>> * Natural flavors

>>>> * Citric acid

>>>> * Caffeine

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[Guest guest]

I did read the thread, but still don't have an answer.

Diet Coke is legal, in spite of having natural flavors?

OR

Diet Coke is illegal because it has natural flavors?

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> > Don't the natural flavors and caramel color make it illegal though?

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> > Holly

> > Crohn's

> > SCD 12/01/08

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[Guest guest]

i believe the former.

Because diet sodas are approved for occasional use and they

all seem to have natural flavors - or at least the big 4 do that I

looked up, diet coke, diet pepsi, diet gingerale and diet seven up.

So I think that the occasional use mitigates against the natural

flavors - anyway - that is the only way I can make heads or tails

or it.

Why put it in if no diet soda is actually legal? And if Elaine only

meant one/some obscure brand/(s) that no one had ever heard of,

wouldn't she have said - occasional use of diet obscure brand(s) of

soda is(are) approved.

Unless she stated somewhere which brands are acceptable and

which not - but it only says diet soda, as far as I know.

Subject to correction - if someone has more accurate info. And,

obviously if it has a negative effect, stop immediately.

Mara

> I did read the thread, but still don't have an answer.

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> Diet Coke is legal, in spite of having natural flavors?

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> OR

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> Diet Coke is illegal because it has natural flavors?

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> Holly

> Crohn's

> SCD 12/01/08

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>>> Don't the natural flavors and caramel color make it illegal though?

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>>> Holly

>>> Crohn's

>>> SCD 12/01/08

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[Guest guest]

That cream soda sounds yummy! I always liked the A & W cream sodas :-)

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

> >Diet Coke is legal, in spite of having natural flavors?

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> >OR

> >

> >Diet Coke is illegal because it has natural flavors?

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> Elaine said we might have one diet soda per week.

> I do not recall that she specified brands.

>

> Given that caramel coloring is often derived from

> sugar, and that natural flavors render anything

> else illegal, my personal feeling would be to

> find (or make) a ginger ale or lemon-lime soda

> which did not have those ingredients.

>

> However, people often tell me that I am

> unreasonably suspicious. I'm about to head for

> bed, and I will acknowledge that I haven't

> bothered to look up the ingredients in the major

> diet sodas because I've been working on my

> writing. I'll be surprised, though, if the lot of

> them don't have " natural flavors. "

>

> The only thing I can conclude is that Elaine felt

> it was unreasonable to ask people to not only

> give up all grains and all starches and all

> sodas... and felt the tiny bit of " natural

> flavoring " in one soda once a week was the lesser

> of evils, and having one soda once a week might

> mean the difference between sticking with the

> diet, and going nuts and eating a whole giant

> serving of, say, MacMordor's fries.

>

> OTOH, if my food diary says I don't tolerate it,

> then no matter how legal it is, I'll set it

> aside. I can't do Aspartame, so diet sodas are

> right out where I'm concerned -- and I knew that

> a good ten years before I found SCD.

>

> I do make a " cream soda " with a tablespoon or so

> of legal vanilla extract in a glass of legal soda

> water. (Don't try to add honey, unless you really

> LIKE having your glass explode in your face. Yes,

> that's a soaked towel you see over there.)

>

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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