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You ever wonder what's in those natural flavors in your sparkling water? This video shocked me.

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You're going to want to watch it. No one would tell me what is in natural flavoring, so I got

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some samples and sent them to a lab, and here are the results. I am Shay from Dram. We own a

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sparkling water company in Colorado, and it has been a lifelong mission for our business to never

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use any natural flavoring because by law, they don't have to tell you what's in these. So now

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we have a little bit of a glimpse. These are all residual solvents. Here's the parts per million,

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parts per billion that were found after I had White Labs analyze a lime flavor extract,

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and this was a certified organic natural flavoring. Two of these that stand out to me are pentadione

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right here and diacetyl. These are known for causing popcorn lung, which is a form of obliterative

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bronchiolitis in factory workers that manufacture these flavors. So we already know those are not

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good to be exposed to. Several other leftover solvents, so I don't think people consider this natural.