Looking for Mr. Cranberry...
Jun. 16th, 2008 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpDuring today's shopping expedition, I decided it was high time to swig a couple of quarts of cranberry juice, which is touted as a substance that does a bangup job dealing with things like kidney stones.
(DISCLAIMER: There is, as far as I know, nothing wrong with my kidneys, thank you, but I recall that cranberry juice was the "non-pharmaceutical" part of what the doctor ordered back in early February of '04, when I likely did pass a kidney stone, and I like to run a quart or two through the system every once in a while, as a preventive measure.)
Anyway, the last time I bought cranberry juice I was surprised to find that most of it was something else. Today I found out that deliberately going out of your way to find unadulterated cranberry juice is not that easy. Even something sold under the Ocean Spray name (a name you'd naturally associate with cranberrys) as "100% Juice" and labeled "Cranberry," is actually a mixture of grape and cranberry juice, mentioned in that order on the label (which leads me to suspect that there's more grape juice in the mix than cranberry).
I eventually found a bottle of "Pure Cranberry" juice, sold by Mountain Sun, which lists its ingredients as "cranberry juice, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)." That's about as simple as it gets.
P.S. It should be noted that, word gymnastics aside, cranberry juice is very nearly always mixed with some other juice, like apple or grape, to provide sweetness. "Straight" cranberry juice isn't very sweet (but as I have explained, that's not why I drink it).
I am currently making some soup, with some dried (local) mushrooms, stew beef, and a package of Bird's Eye frozen vegetables. (Later, I added half of a small cabbage, sliced thinly.)
Shiloh seems interested.
Cheers...
(DISCLAIMER: There is, as far as I know, nothing wrong with my kidneys, thank you, but I recall that cranberry juice was the "non-pharmaceutical" part of what the doctor ordered back in early February of '04, when I likely did pass a kidney stone, and I like to run a quart or two through the system every once in a while, as a preventive measure.)
Anyway, the last time I bought cranberry juice I was surprised to find that most of it was something else. Today I found out that deliberately going out of your way to find unadulterated cranberry juice is not that easy. Even something sold under the Ocean Spray name (a name you'd naturally associate with cranberrys) as "100% Juice" and labeled "Cranberry," is actually a mixture of grape and cranberry juice, mentioned in that order on the label (which leads me to suspect that there's more grape juice in the mix than cranberry).
I eventually found a bottle of "Pure Cranberry" juice, sold by Mountain Sun, which lists its ingredients as "cranberry juice, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)." That's about as simple as it gets.
P.S. It should be noted that, word gymnastics aside, cranberry juice is very nearly always mixed with some other juice, like apple or grape, to provide sweetness. "Straight" cranberry juice isn't very sweet (but as I have explained, that's not why I drink it).
I am currently making some soup, with some dried (local) mushrooms, stew beef, and a package of Bird's Eye frozen vegetables. (Later, I added half of a small cabbage, sliced thinly.)
Shiloh seems interested.
Cheers...
