Rude Health Coconut Drink……on front of carton coconut is mentioned twice and rice once but no reference to water.
Ingredients by volume are natural spring water, organic rice, organic coconut butter (2%), sea salt.
Would be more accurate to describe it is…..water with a hint of coconut.
‘Dairy free’ is printed on the front of the packaging; why not add ‘98% coconut free’?

I’ll stick with blue top, thanks.

I thought most drinks were mostly water.

isn’t real coconut water (as in the stuff when you lop the top off a young coconut) mostly water too?

Frank Conway is 60% water. Extremely cordial though.

It does say ‘coconut drink’ (not ‘coconut milk’) though.

Their ‘almond drink’ contains only 1% almonds. Tastes lovely though.

If you want to get really angry lettuce is 96% water and they get away with calling that lettuce

The wifes uncle owns Rude Health.

frankconway – Member
Ingredients by volume are natural spring water, organic rice, organic coconut butter (2%), sea salt.

How does it taste? Good? 😀

Interesting to see that 2% coconut butter. 😛

It’s Coconut Drink not milk.

Tell me about it Frank, how gutted was I when I read the ingredients on the back of the coke can….

I suppose calling it nut juice wouldn’t sell.

on front of carton coconut is mentioned twice and rice once but no reference to water

I’d suggest that if it was actually two-thirds coconut and one third rice then then you’d be forking it onto a plate to have with your curry, not drinking it!

the exact amount of coconut is declared on the packaging (as they have to by law, since “coconut” is in the name of the product) so it’s not misleading legally; all the information is there (caveat emptor and all that).

Possibly a bit sneaky I suppose, but then it depends what the average percentage of coconut would be in other “coconut” drinks. As said above, too high & it’ll be a food not a drink! The classic con is wasabi paste, which rarely (if ever) contains more than 5% wasabi. This one from Tesco only contains 0.2% which is just pathetic (but still legal presumably as they quantify just how little you’re getting!) http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=276785707

but then every drink will be called ‘water with a hint of…’ (insert, coffee, tea, hops, lemons etc. etc).

As long as the description (i.e. “coconut” in this case) corresponds to the predominant taste then legally they’re OK. A lot of fruit juice drinks are mostly apple juice, but sold as mango or whatever because that’s what it tastes of.

You’d be pissed off if your apple juice tasted of guava.

Aren’t humans 96% Orangutan?

Aren’t humans 96% Orangutan?

Well I wish now I had read my packet, before throwing it away.

Aren’t humans 96% Orangutan?

On that measure we’re 50% banana. But we don’t taste like banana and we’re not as easy to peal.

Does it taste of Coconut, and does it contain coconut? If so calling it a Coconut drink would seem suitable. Surely the difference between Coconut drink and coconut milk is akin to the difference between Orange squash and Orange juice.

Aren’t humans 96% Orangutan?

On that measure we’re 50% banana. But we don’t taste like banana and we’re not as easy to peal.[/quote]
You might be taking the mantra ‘you are what you eat’ a little too literally 😉

Oh and that forum that claims to be about mountain biking 😉 It’s all road and gravel