Snapple Peach Tea

Lets start with something that doesn't have too many ingredients.. Snapple Peach Tea. Here it is in a nutshell.. much more research could be done, but here is a start

Ingredients: Filtered Water, Sugar, Citric Acid, Tea, Natural Flavors
Packaging: small bottles are glass and caps are made from tinplate

Sugar: Is either Cane Sugar: Typically grown in countries including Australia, Mexico, China, India, Thailand, Brazil, Colombia, Hawaii, United States. Beat Sugar: Typically grown in countries including: European Union, United States, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Iran, Japan, and China. I have not been able to find where Snapple gets its cane sugar but it is possibly from one of the countries above. (Sugar, 2012)

Citric Acid: Collected from a species of fungus that turns sugar into citric acid (Hendrickson, 2011)

Tea: Come from Chile, China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, and South Africa (Snapple, 2010)

Snapple is owned by Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. This company make other well known products including   A&W Root beer, Dry Canada, 7Up, Clmato, Country Time, Crush Orange, Deep Blue, Motts Apple Juice, Margaritaville, and Rose's. (Snapple, 2010; Dr. Pepper, 2012)

Sources:
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Last modified 2012. 
          http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/.


Hendrickson, Kirstin. Livestrong, "How is Citric Acid Made and Where Does it Come From?." Last modified June 23, 2011. http://www.livestrong.com/article/477815-how-is-citric-acid-made-where-does-it-come-from/.


Snapple, "Frequently Asked Questions." Last modified 2010. 
          http://www.snapple.com/.

Sugar Industry Biotech Council, "Frequently Asked Questions."
          http://www.sugarindustrybiotechcouncil.org/sugar-beet-faq/.  


The New York Times, "Buisness." Last modified 2012. 
         htto://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/dr-pepper-snapple-group-inc/index.html.