Say goodbye to LaCroix

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #1

Looks like it isn’t so natural after all. Guess I will start using mineral waters from Europe, because they monitor much more closely for this kind of thing. I really was drinking a lot of it this summer.

http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/39206939/beaumont-costales-files-class-action-lawsuit-against-lacroix-water

(Amy Ramadan) #2

Ewwww!!! Glad I never tried these lol

(TJ Borden) #3

Son of a bitch… I loved that stuff

#4

:nauseated_face: so much in my fridge

(Hyperbole- best thing in the universe!) #5

Dangit! Thanks for posting and letting us know.

(less is more, more or less) #6

My skepticism tingles when I see “all-natural” in any context. Hemlock is all-natural, too.

https://www.popsci.com/lacroix-lawsuit-natural-synthetic-flavors

The “cockroach insecticide” also has anticancer effects, particularly with colon cancer.

(Randy) #7

I love this quote from the article

and a product of alarmist, chemophobic ideas about what we put in our foods.

SMH…

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #8

I said goodbye to LaCroix after sampling one. I would say tasting, but what taste? They don’t taste like anything.

(Casey Crisler) #9

I wish they would stop the hysteria using phrases like “a chemical found in roach pesticide.” Big deal. Water can be used in dangerous pesticides too. Just because something contains something used in something else doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad. Chemicals require other chemicals to react in a certain way. Sounds like money grubbing lawyers causing more s*t again.

Having said that, I don’t like this drink anyway. But I have two boxes of it I need to drink or donate.

#10

What a bunch of hype. These chemicals are found in normal foods. If you’re worried about limonene, you better stay far away from citrus! Orange oil is mostly limonene. It’s used in all sorts of cleansers and degreasers, and is used as a very effective treatment for heartburn. Linalool is found in lavender and hops. You beer lovers better watch out!

(J) #11

This is seriously not a problem. These articles are blowing this waaay out of proportion. Lab-created linalool is chemically IDENTICAL to botanic. If you want nothing processed added to your flavored water, drink PLAIN water and add some fresh lemon. I avoid most processed stuff, but will continue to happily enjoy my flavored seltzer, TYVM.

(less is more, more or less) #12

A.K.A., clickbait, and it’s not just this article. Everything is breathlessly phrased now, even this sentence. :wink:

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #13

I will be doing just that. It had become a habit, I am an exPepsiholic, so I loved the fizz. I should get one of those at home devices for making your own fizzy water and will probably do just that and add citrus juice to it going forwards. And splurge on fizzy mineral water for the occasional treat instead of something I consume regularly.

I don’t think I really want to put any amount of insecticide into my body anymore. Even if it might fight cancer in another compound.

I do agree that some lawyers will see this as a $$$$ thing.

#14

People forget in the I WANT IT ALL era that products have to be preserved so they can HAVE IT ALL when they WANT it!

(Marie Dantoni) #15

A very good substitute…also less expensive is seltzer with a smidge of organic orange, grapefruit, lemon or lime essential oil.

(Central Florida Bob ) #16

Along the same lines, what does “all-natural” water mean anyway? It’s either water or it’s not.

My first iteration of college was in biochemistry. This talk used to make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Now it just annoys me.

#17

Class-action suit filed over “all natural” based on FDA classification of a chemical as synthetic only a month after National Beverage hits $1B in revenue?!? :roll_eyes:

Biggest concern in my mind is that there is a judge in Illinois willing to certify the class.

1M for law firm, .01 for each member of the class, lots of bad press for National Beverage.

I’d say this is more of a story about the US legal system than health and nutrition or “big food”.

Full disclosure: I drink a lot of La Croix. If class members’ share is based on product consumed, mine would be at least $.10 :joy:

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#18

But those all contain evil limonene! Surely if you so much as look at a peice of citrus you’ll have to be put on dialysis.

(Ray Reimann) #19

Looks like the page you referenced is no longer available. A pity, since I wanted to read it.

(Bob M) #20

While people are making fun of this,some people have issues with chemicals. Why do you think zero carb/carnivory works, at least in part? I’ve read a study saying that 99.999+% of pesticides are naturally produced by plants.

I met a woman who said her son was allergic to certain chemicals. I think one reason for autism and its many other forms is because of the number of chemicals we are subjected to every day. This is – at least in part – why low carb/keto works for a lot of children with these issues. (As does, of course, elimination of grains and all the issues, including chemicals, associated with them.)

So, making fun of this is not a good idea, for those people who actually have problems with these materials. Now, do all people have to be concerned? Probably not. I drink flavored waters, only because I want something with a bit of taste sometimes, but perhaps I would be better if I did not (though testing this can be difficult, since I drink so little of this water).