Thursday, January 8, 2009

Beware of sweet things in cute packaging

By Juli

Picked up some mints in a cool little metal tin at Whole Foods. It’s all I can afford there anymore. Retro metal tins always get me. Why is that?

Anyway, I ate half the tin waiting at the auto shop. (In my defense, I was there two hours longer than I expected and hadn't eaten lunch. I was also resisting the Dunkin Donuts next door.)

Then I realized they’re energy mints. Not breath mints? What the hell is an energy mint?

Back of tin says 500% RDI Vitamin B12. But it doesn’t say what the serving size is. I’m going to take a wild guess it’s not half the tin.

Even if the serving size is two mints, I just stuffed down roughly 3,000% of what I need in Vitamin B12 for one day. Right in my gob. In ten minutes. Google B12 overdose anyone?

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