Earlier this evening a friend of mine invited me over to her place for a visit. She had just got back from Costco and had purchased among other things some bottled diet green tea known as Kirkland Signature Diet Green Tea, a bottle of which she very kindly offered to me. We got to talking about tea and she began reading the ingredients off, wondering out loud whether any of the agents was harmful. I promised to do some investigative work and get back to her later.According to the information on the label, Kirkland Diet Green Tea contains the following main ingredients:
1) Purified water
2) Green Tea
3) Sodium Hexametaphosphate
4) Sodium Benzoate
5) Potassium Sorbate
6) Aspartame
7) Colour
Number three is used in foods mainly as a water softening agent. It also has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of soap, the pulp and paper industry and metal plating. All this sounds pretty awful until one remembers that this ingredient is only one of many thousands that go into the manufacture of these items.
Numbers four and five are commonly-used food preserving agents. Potassium Sorbate is also used in toothpaste as a whitening agent.
Aspartame is not nearly as straight-forward a case. Aspartame has received a good bit of negative publicity over the years, with some claiming it to be responsible for a legion of maladies too numerous to mention here. The actual evidence is not so clear-cut. According to Wikipedia, aspartame has been more studied by the United States Food and Drug Administration than any other item currently in use, and yet it is still considered by that agency to be a safe product.
A cursory survey of Kirkland Signature Diet Green Tea on the web revealed a generally positive reaction to the product. It is available at Costco at a very reasonable price, a price that works out to about 35 cents a 500 ml. bottle. Personally, I don't like the taste of artificial sweeteners. I avoid buying diet products for the most part. But if you happen to be someone who enjoys drinking diet products, I would say that you probably stand a pretty good chance of hanging on to your health even so.
2 comments:
Honestly in my point of view, I believe this because when you pour the tea into the cup you realize that the foam after it looks like a soap color. Ok there must be something wrong. Once I drank it I knew this "tea" was not good for me.
When it comes to drinking teas for diet purposes, I prefer teas that are boiled, and not bottled like this one. It's best to drink teas that you boil firsthand than drinking bottled teas, as it maximizes the health benefits of the teas. Those that are canned contain more sugar, which means added calories and jeopardizing your diet. The polyphenols we get from freshly brewed or boiled tea give that bitter and astringent taste, but these are what make the tea healthier. As long as you drink the recommended amount of tea daily, you can start seeing its effects soon.
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