But given the Japanese proclivity for sweets, Bell tried to reengineer the recipe his family's been using for 50 years, adding chocolate chips, apple-cinnamon and blueberry flavorings.
It is important to choose plain coconut water, and to avoid coconut waters with added juice or sugar (flavorings), which are essentially the same as drinking soda or other sugary beverages.
After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners, Chicza said.
In January 2000 the FDA slapped him with a warning letter for overhyping the vitamin B-12 content in Spirulina Spirals and wrongly promoting Fruity Booty as a "mostly fruit" product when the only fruit to be found in it was a powdered dust of flavorings.