Crystal Light Orange Drink

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0 protein, and 0 carbs, where are the calories coming from?

Uhm, I'm guessing the Splenda? Maybe?

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Cinnamn112 said:

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0 protein, and 0 carbs, where are the calories coming from?

Uhm, I'm guessing the Splenda? Maybe?

Crystal Light doesn't use Splenda. It uses aspartame.
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RichC wrote:
|| Does anyone know if the Crystal Light Sunshine drink has any hidden
|| carbs in it?
|| The label says 0 per serving, but it has 10 calories, if it has 0
|| fat, 0 protein, and 0 carbs, where are the calories coming from?
||
|| Rich C

They are hidden away in some carbs.

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Quoted message said:

Does anyone know if the Crystal Light Sunshine drink has any hidden
carbs in it?
The label says 0 per serving, but it has 10 calories, if it has 0 fat,
0 protein, and 0 carbs, where are the calories coming from?

Look at the ingredients list. I looked at the peach tea flavor, which lists
0 carbs and 5 calories per serving. The ingredients list includes corn syrup
solids and maltodextrose. Those are probably the source of the calories, and
can assumed to contain carbs. If the label says 0 carbs, then the actual
carb count should be 1/2 gram or less per serving. I'd count it as 0.5 g
carb. Be sure to keep track of servings you use, as a big glassful may be
several of their defined servings.

HG

(RichC) said:

Does anyone know if the Crystal Light Sunshine drink has any hidden
carbs in it?
The label says 0 per serving, but it has 10 calories, if it has 0 fat,
0 protein, and 0 carbs, where are the calories coming from?

Food manufacturers are generally permitted to list items that contain
less than one carb per serving as 0 carbs per serving.

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Quoted message said:

(RichC) said:

Does anyone know if the Crystal Light Sunshine drink has any hidden
carbs in it?
The label says 0 per serving, but it has 10 calories, if it has 0 fat,
0 protein, and 0 carbs, where are the calories coming from?

Food manufacturers are generally permitted to list items that contain
less than one carb per serving as 0 carbs per serving.

Yes, but what does that have to do with the question, which was how
crystal light can have 0 carbs, fat, protein, but 10 calories.

On 2 Sep 2004 17:03:29 -0700, [email hidden] (Chet Hayes)

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Yes, but what does that have to do with the question, which was how
crystal light can have 0 carbs, fat, protein, but 10 calories.

It wasn't a detailed answer to the entire question, just an
explanation of why a label might say "0 carbs".

On 2 Sep 2004 17:03:29 -0700, [email hidden] (Chet Hayes)

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Quoted message said:

(RichC) said:

Does anyone know if the Crystal Light Sunshine drink has any hidden
carbs in it?
The label says 0 per serving, but it has 10 calories, if it has 0 fat,
0 protein, and 0 carbs, where are the calories coming from?

Food manufacturers are generally permitted to list items that contain
less than one carb per serving as 0 carbs per serving.

Yes, but what does that have to do with the question, which was how
crystal light can have 0 carbs, fat, protein, but 10 calories.

You can ALMOST get there with rounding errors. .5g of fat can be
listed as 0g but provide 4.5 calories, similarly .5g protein could add
2 calories and .5g of carbs could add another 2 calories. So you
could have 8.5 calories with "0" fat, carbs and protein.

Harold Groot said:

(Chet Hayes) said:

Yes, but what does that have to do with the question, which was how
crystal light can have 0 carbs, fat, protein, but 10 calories.

You can ALMOST get there with rounding errors. .5g of fat can be
listed as 0g but provide 4.5 calories, similarly .5g protein could add
2 calories and .5g of carbs could add another 2 calories. So you
could have 8.5 calories with "0" fat, carbs and protein.

And calories are rounded to a multiple of five.

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Harold Groot said:

(Chet Hayes) said:

Yes, but what does that have to do with the question, which was how
crystal light can have 0 carbs, fat, protein, but 10 calories.

You can ALMOST get there with rounding errors. .5g of fat can be
listed as 0g but provide 4.5 calories, similarly .5g protein could add
2 calories and .5g of carbs could add another 2 calories. So you
could have 8.5 calories with "0" fat, carbs and protein.

And calories are rounded to a multiple of five.

Yes, we all know that, however even with that stretch of logic you
don't get to 10 grams, only 8.5. And 4.5 of that would have to come
from fat, which I have never seen in this type of drink or soda
product, have you? There is nothing on the list of ingredients that
is a fat, nor is there any reason to think it would be added to a
product like this. So, the original question is still unanswered.

BTW, I looked at a couple of flavors of cystal light I have and they
are both 5 calories, with 0g 0 0, which makes a lot more sense.