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Nestea Enviga. Green Tea, Berry and Peach. $1.29 to $1.49 per 12- ounce can.
Bonnie: Voodoo nutrition, lawsuits and a promise of burning calories by just drinking. I'm talking about Enviga, a carbonated, canned green tea beverage collaboration between food giants Coke and Nestle. It consists of carbonated water, calcium, concentrated green tea, natural flavors and ingredients generally found in diet colas - - caffeine, phosphoric acid and artificial sweeteners (aspartame and acesulfame potassium). It's the green tea extracts, which are high in the antioxidant epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, that when combined with caffeine (the amount in a cup of coffee) purportedly burn calories.See the full content of this document
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A Drink That Burns Calories? Good Luck
Hogwash, I say! Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal calls it "voodoo nutrition." Earlier this month, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition advocacy group, filed a federal law...
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