# How can I confirm the ingredients in this 7-Eleven beverage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-confirm-the-ingredients-in-this-7-eleven-beverage/797144>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 24, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-confirm-the-ingredients-in-this-7-eleven-beverage/797144 "2017-09-24T03:37:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-confirm-the-ingredients-in-this-7-eleven-beverage/797144/21 "2017-09-25T23:40:59Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> If you’re a \*chemicals are ruining everything \* true believer don’t ever read the ingredient list for a banana [http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2014/01/21/1226806/789895-2e77d7cc-823a-11e3-8c0a-8e0465bef8c3.jpg](http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2014/01/21/1226806/789895-2e77d7cc-823a-11e3-8c0a-8e0465bef8c3.jpg)
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> It’ll put you off food for life. 😃

This will be good to rub in when someone I know talks about eating “whole foods” as the only way to live. Thanks for posting this!

Seriously, if you look at a lot of ingredients from store bought food, look them up and see about their safety, as compared with some stuff that make up more naturally derived foods, you pretty much break even. There are good and bad things in everything.

(eating whole foods is better in most cases, but i’m going to use this for the annoying alarmist types, just to screw with them)

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-confirm-the-ingredients-in-this-7-eleven-beverage/797144/22 "2017-09-25T23:54:45Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> The second paragraph was in response to [**Isilder** ’s post #4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20495472&postcount=4), where he said that the natural flavoring was the actual fruit. Even if it isn’t specifically beaver butt secretions, it’s still usually not the actual fruit.

Gotcha.

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> And I said “butt”, not “anus” or “rectum”. The castor gland is part of the hindquarters of the animal.

“in”

> [@anomalous1](#):
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> This will be good to rub in when someone I know talks about eating “whole foods” as the only way to live. Thanks for posting this!
> 
> Seriously, if you look at a lot of ingredients from store bought food, look them up and see about their safety, as compared with some stuff that make up more naturally derived foods, you pretty much break even. There are good and bad things in everything.
> 
> (eating whole foods is better in most cases, but i’m going to use this for the annoying alarmist types, just to screw with them)

I’ve seen it “memed” on Facebook.

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