Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site shell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utmbvax!shell!buck From: buck@shell.UUCP (Lester Buck) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Ovaltine and vitamins Message-ID: <123@shell.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 00:30:27 EDT Article-I.D.: shell.123 Posted: Tue Jun 25 00:30:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 00:10:34 EDT References: <2127@sdcc6.UUCP> <1124@peora.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., Shell Development Co., Houston Lines: 19 > 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. {ihnp4, pur-ee, ut-sally}!shell!buck