FDA Takes the Fizz out of Canada Dry Green Tea Ginger Ale

I had to laugh recently when I spotted a bottle of Canada Dry Green Tea Ginger

Ale on my grocer's shelf. Green tea in ginger ale? Here is another example of a

corporate giant trying to make a profit on green's tea's health benefits! If

you read the[6] August 24th edition of my Tea Maestro blog, you realize how

little real tea there is in any of these commercial drinks!

I t didn't take long for the FDA to spot the infraction and send a warning to

the parent company Dr. Pepper. At issue are claims made by the company that

Canada Dry Green Tea Ginger Ale was fortified with antioxidants and Vitamin C.

The FDA said the amount of antioxidants that the company claims the drink

contains isn't substantiated because the bulk of the antioxidants come from

sources it does not recognize.

The agency also said the company should not have claimed the drink was

fortified. "...the FDA does not consider it appropriate to fortify snack foods

such as carbonated beverages," the agency wrote.

If you want to gain the health benefits of green tea, you have to drink real

green tea - not carbonated beverages with a bit of green tea extract, not

bottled water with a bit of green tea, not bottled green tea in a gallon jug

from your supermarket. Buy fresh loose green tea and let it steep. People have

been doing it for thousands of years!

Courtesy Elmwood Inn Fine Teashttp://www.harborteaandspice.com/