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From: buck@shell.UUCP (Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Ovaltine and vitamins
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 00:30:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 00:30:27 1985
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Organization: CS Dept., Shell Development Co., Houston
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> It's not only Coca Cola that's changed.  Last week I went to the grocery
> store to buy (among other things) Ovaltine*.  I like ovaltine, because it
> contains various vitamins, in reasonable doses (45% of the RDA for most
> of them).
> ...
> mentioned on the front label.  It now has about HALF the vitamins it formerly
> had!  I guess, like the alleged coca leaves, the cost of the vitamins was
> getting too expensive... so they changed the "taste" by reducing the vitamin
> content.

I remember reading somewhere (Consumer Reports?) that the net difference
between Special K and Total cereals is about a half-cent of vitamin spray
per box at one step of processing for Total.  For this the price difference is
twenty or thirty (I haven't checked lately) cents more per box.
I wish I had a piece of that action...  I think vitamins in bulk are
really quite cheap.

A. Lester Buck @ Shell Development Co.
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