Sobe Life Water?????

[The Creator]

Sobe Life Water has 0 calories yet 6 grams of carbs per serving. Anybody have any kind of sensible explanation???????????? Oh yeah, and I dont think it has any fiber. Am I just drawing a blank here or is Sobe BS'ing the world?

 

[tim290280]

Clearly magic carbs.

 

[The Creator]

Clearly magic carbs.

I guess its just those non-calorie carbs....you know the ones that are in alcohol

 

[BigBen]

ill go with magic carbs also.

 

[The Creator]

So no explanation????? This is racking my brain...

 

[BigBen]

Um no honestly creator sometimes a company will count carbohydrates that are in sweetener. They has a chemical composition of X grams of sugar/ carbohydrates but they do not experience digestion/hydrolysis. That is all i can come up with. It is like carbohydrates vs net carbohydrates with fiber, but in this case it is with sweetner.

 

[The Creator]

That is odd that they would count those. I mean technically they dont have any calories if they are not going to be absorbed by the body and made available for energy....

 

[BigBen]

i agree but that is the nly thing i can think of. If their is 6 carbs their MUST BE calories that go along with them because of the way calories content is measured. A carbohydrate has 4 calories that is the energy it has in it. To say that a carbohydrate, a molecule with a specific chemical structure does not have energy stored in its chemical bonds is incorrect. The company has done something funny. Either they have changed the carbohydrtae chemically so the bonds cant be broken and they are bound by the FDA to label the 6 g or something else but if something has 6 carbs it must have calories.

 

[tim290280]

I agree it doesn't make a lot of sense. Short of a labelling requirement that covers an artificial sweetner which technically delivers no calories, I can't see why.

Either that or their marketing dept doesn't want you to look to closely at the label.