Here is the situation. I am one of the few people who like to drink lemon juice. No, I don't mean lemonade. I mean 100% lemon juice. Except when a product says 100% they sometimes do not mean it. This product is 9X% lemon juice and Y% preservatives. (Hopefully the X is a 9, :D)
The brand that I find that I like the most, happens to also be one of the cheapest.
It contains Sodium Bisulfite and Sodium Benzoate.
It has a serving size of 1 tsp (5 ml), but I have been known to drink an entire bottle in one serving; which is very nearly 200 times their serving size. That gives me the feeling that I might be consuming too much of those preservatives.
My logic is that they are adding the preservatives thinking people will be only consuming a few ml per day.
I have read the wiki for both preservatives, and they do list safe amounts in "mg/kg of body weight per day" for one of them. But unfortunately products in the US are not required to list the weights of ingredients. (Though they are required to have the ingredient list be ordered by weight.) So I am not quite sure what percentage each is. Therefore, it would help if someone could find that out somehow...
As far as that goes, the sodium benzoate wiki says "Concentration as a preservative is limited by the FDA in the U.S. to 0.1% by weight."
That gives us, supposedly, a max amount for that one. But that one is listed after sodium bisulfite on the ingredients list, meaning that it is equal to or less than the amount of sodium bisulfite. So the sodium bisulfite is quite possibly more.
If no one can narrow that down further somehow, then for the sake of discussion we might want to assume it is .1% sodium benzoate and .2% sodium bisulfite.
Unless I have completely goofed on the math, I believe that means I am consuming a gram or two of each, per bottle.
Here are the wiki's for both preservatives:
Sodium Benzoate
Sodium Bisulfite
Here is the product:
http://ift.tt/1dfR15E
The brand that I find that I like the most, happens to also be one of the cheapest.
It contains Sodium Bisulfite and Sodium Benzoate.
It has a serving size of 1 tsp (5 ml), but I have been known to drink an entire bottle in one serving; which is very nearly 200 times their serving size. That gives me the feeling that I might be consuming too much of those preservatives.
My logic is that they are adding the preservatives thinking people will be only consuming a few ml per day.
I have read the wiki for both preservatives, and they do list safe amounts in "mg/kg of body weight per day" for one of them. But unfortunately products in the US are not required to list the weights of ingredients. (Though they are required to have the ingredient list be ordered by weight.) So I am not quite sure what percentage each is. Therefore, it would help if someone could find that out somehow...
As far as that goes, the sodium benzoate wiki says "Concentration as a preservative is limited by the FDA in the U.S. to 0.1% by weight."
That gives us, supposedly, a max amount for that one. But that one is listed after sodium bisulfite on the ingredients list, meaning that it is equal to or less than the amount of sodium bisulfite. So the sodium bisulfite is quite possibly more.
If no one can narrow that down further somehow, then for the sake of discussion we might want to assume it is .1% sodium benzoate and .2% sodium bisulfite.
Unless I have completely goofed on the math, I believe that means I am consuming a gram or two of each, per bottle.
Here are the wiki's for both preservatives:
Sodium Benzoate
Sodium Bisulfite
Here is the product:
http://ift.tt/1dfR15E
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