I went shopping in a new store today. At first I was excited to find something with 100% juice that wasn’t absurdly expensive. But then I looked at the ingredients and saw cochineal extract, AKA carmine, AKA crushes beetles used to make things red.
I just don’t understand. You’ve got this juice, you could totally add beet juice for coloring and achieve a beautiful color. But no, gotta throw insects into it instead. As far as hidden non-vegan ingredients go, stuff from insects tends to fly under the radar. Yet I bet if more people were aware of what they were buying, even non-vegans would take issue with it.
That wasn’t in your original comment though. It’s a valid point that adding apple juice for the sugar is a dirty way to get around the “no added sugars” restriction. Only in your followup comment did you mention this, but it wasn’t immediately obvious to me either that that was the point you were trying to make.
I don’t think the other commenter was trying to be patronizing to you, it just genuinely seemed like there was some confusion going on.
If that person’s comment isn’t patronizing then I’m totally lost. They even bolded added like I’m a fucking moron. I admit it’s my bad for thinking that people would understand that this clearly has added sugar but I don’t see any reason to reply the way they did.