Comment · Fri, April 17, 2020
Modified nutritions in green tea extract
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base92 · 4 points
Hi all, hope someone can clarify this for me. In european law tea extracts are exempt from nutrition labelling when nutritional values of the tea extract have not been modified. What defines a nutritional modified extract and how can we sepearate from other extracts?
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
The EU only recently adopted common nutritional labeling rules in 2016. Even now, they are not as strict as the US is in some aspects. What you are referring to are teas that do not modify the nutritional content of the tea. So let's say you add sugar to an instant tea mix. That's NOT exempt from the nutritional labeling rules, as you have modified the nutritional content of the tea. So any tea in which you have not added something to it that would affect any of the things that EU defines as a nutritional measure is exempt. Tea normally does not have any calories, sugars, or fat. So you do not need to have a nutritional label on it, per EU law. Make sense?