What ingredients are in SOBE CITRUS ENERGY
What ingredients are in SOBE CITRUS ENERGY (Product)
BRAND: South Beach Beverage Company
Citrus Energy drink that has lots of colorful packaging. Markets its herbal contents as: Guarana 50mg, Ginseng 50mg, and Taurine 28mg.
INGREDIENTS: , FILTERED WATER, SUGAR, ORANGE JUICE CONCENTRATE, CITRIC ACID, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), PECTIN, GUM ARABIC, CAFFEINE, GLYCEROL ESTER OF WOOD ROSIN, CHERRY JUICE CONCENTRATE, TAURINE, ELDERBERRY JUICE CONCENTRATE, PANAX GINSENG ROOT EXTRACT, GUARANA (PAULLINIA CUPANA) SEED EXTRACT, CARAMEL COLOR
Most commonly processed sugar cane or sugar beet plant in granular form. From plant to granular form involves several chemical processes.
Evaporated Juice from oranges. To keep flavor the juice is evaporated in a vacuum and then about 10% un-concentrated orange juice is re-added.
It is a poweder made from the product of the fermentation of carbohydrates. Citric Acid is used as a flavoring in pharmaceutical products and sweet foods such as sodas and candies as a flavoring.
Evaporated Lemon Juice. To keep flavor the lemon juice is evaporated in a vacume, afterwords a percentage of lemon juice is added to help presever the flavor.
\"The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products there of, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.\" - FDA
More commonly called vitamin C, this acid may be used for any number of reasons in food: selling point (now with Vitamin C!), raise the acid content in food, help the dyes retain their color.
The primary source of pectin is apples, about 1 to 1.5% of an apple is pectin.
Hardened sap of the acacia tree. It is used as a stabiliser in food.
Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant, having the effect of warding off drowsiness and restoring alertness.
Cherry juice that is evaporated in a vacuum and then a small percentage of cherry juice is re-added to preserve the flavor.
Synthetic taurine is obtained from isethionic acid (2-hydroxyethanesulfonic acid), which in turn is obtained from the reaction of ethylene oxide with aqueous sodium bisulfite.
Elderberry juice is evaporated in a vacuum to make it concentrated. Often a small amount of juice is re-added to the mixture to preserve the flavor.
Caramel color is burnt or carmalized sugars and starches usualy in a water suspension.