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Jan 13, 2009 9:07 pm US/Central
Mass. Mom Creates Low Sugar Juice For Kids
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (CBS) ―
When Gloucester mom Karen Barth would go down the grocery aisles looking for a healthy drink for her children, most of the time, she'd come up empty. Her only resort, buy the sugar filled juice and water it down. "As a mother I was very tired fighting with my kids over what to drink."
So she decided to create her own drink. She spent months in her kitchen concocting mixtures of all natural ingredients: fruit extracts, vegetable colorings, and for a sweetener she used agave syrup, made from a cactus.
"It's really magic because it tastes really sweet but it doesn't have a high sugar content," she said. "And it has a low glycemic index so it doesn't spike kid's blood sugar."
Barth's children were her taste testers. Nine-year-old Miriam said she was honest with her reviews.
"I thought some of them were pretty good but some of them weren't the best."
Along the way, Barth realized this was a product other mothers might be looking for as well, so in September she began to bottle the juice called Flavrz, which is now available in small grocery stores and health food shops throughout New England and New York.
Barth also decided to make it as green as possible. The juice is a concentrate, so you have to add water. But a 16 oz bottle of Flavrz will give you the equivalent of 14 bottles, so there's less packaging and less waste.
"This business is trying to both make money and accomplish a social purpose," she said.
Good for your kids, green for the environment and some green for Barth's wallet as well.
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