Jennie Smash

In the interests of recovering from this plague, I ordered a bunch of juice from MaxDelivery. One of the various juices I ordered was this POM Wonderful Pomegranate stuff that I kept seeing in the health store around the corner from my office. (I work in Chelsea, so I’ll never have any trouble getting juice, or Ripped Fuel, or men’s underpants.)

This POM stuff is supposed to contain about elevendy-million different antioxidants and fix everything from a cold to congestive heart failure. Because of this, it costs about the same as a barrel of oil.

But I spare no expense when it comes to my health, so I bought some, and guzzled it down. It was quite tasty, and I was thinking about how it would make a delicious margarita mixer, when I happened to spy the nutritional information on the back.

Total Fat ……. 0g (So far, so good.)
Cholest. ……. 0 mg (Ditto.)
Sodium ……… 30 mg (Good? Bad? I dunno. I’m Irish, so salt is the only spice I use.)
Potassium ….. 430mg (Oooh! That’s gotta be good.)
Total Carb ….. 35g (Um. That seems high.)
Fiber ……….. 0g
Sugars ……… 34g (OUCH.)
Protein ……… 1g

Vitamin A …….. 0%
Vitamin C …….. 0%
Calcium ………. 4%
Iron …………. 2%

So basically? There’s nothing IN this magical drink. Nothing except sugar, that is. I’m less than confident in plain old sugar’s ability to cure my cold, even if it is purple.

Still, I probably will try this in a margarita, when I’m mended.