January 3/New York/Huffington Post -- The Coca-Cola Company has come under fire from The Children's Food Campaign (CFC) -- an initiative that strives to improve children's health through food education -- for claims about its product, Vitaminwater. The company's website stated, according to the Guardian, that Vitaminwater's products are a mixture of "spring water with fruit juice."
The CFC recently released a report with The British Heart Foundation highlighting companies that misleadingly advertise their junk food product as healthy. A handful of companies were fingered in the CFC report alongside the Coca-Cola Comany as being the worst offenders, such as Chupa Chups and Nutella. The Independent reports that, while the company claimed to use real fruit juice in its product, only three out of eight flavors contained any juice at all, and those that did were from concentrate.