Bertie Beans, question from a regional group.

[Kenneth M. Kuller <ken.kuller@veritas.com>]

I'm sorry to burst your balloon, but the side panel from a package of 
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans lists the following ingredients:

SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE 
FOLLOWING: GRAPE JUICE CONCENTRATE, BLUEBERRY PUREE, BANANA PUREE, 
SPINACH POWDER, BLACK PEPPER, CITRIC ACID, MALIC ACID, MALTODEXTRIN, 
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, COLOR ADDED, RED 40 LAKE, YELLOW 5, 
BLUE 1 & 2 LAKE, YELLOW 5 & 6 LAKE, BLUE 1, RED 40, BEESWAX, CARNAUBA 
WAX, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, SALT.  MANUFACTURED IN A PLANT THAT 
PROCESSES PEANUTS.


The nutritional panel proclaims thus:
NUTRITION FACTS: Serving size 1 package (505), Servings: 1, Amount 
Per Serving: Calories 180, Total Fat 0g (0% DV) Sodium 30 mg (1% DV) 
Total Carb 48g (15% DV) Sugars 35g, Protien 0g. Not a significant 
source of fat cal., sat fat, cholest, fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, 
calcium, and iron. Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2000 
calorie diet.


Don't kid yourself ... candy is candy. Whether lemon drop or vomit 
flavor, watermellon or dirt, cinnamon or grass, tuti-fruit or 
sardine, it's still sugar.

Ken Kuller


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Lisa Armstrong 
<renitentraven at h...>" <renitentraven at h...> wrote:
[Snip]
>  The scary and unavoidable conclusion I have half-formed:
>  Bertie Bott's Every Flavoured Beans are a health food based scam 
to 
> subvert the Wizarding World away from their healthy carnivourism to 
a 
> diet of pure soya based protein.
[Snip]