Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Sam's Choice Tropical Trail Mix

There's more to Sam's Choice Tropical Trail Mix than they'd like you to believe; it's riddled with preservatives, additives, and a taste totally unlike anything fruit and nuts ought to taste like.

1 - Sam's Choice Tropical Trail Mix actually has added sugar. It's the second thing on the list of ingredients. A real trail mix with any intent on keeping you healthy and providing nutritious snacking would not add sugar. This is but one of the additives present in the Trail Mix, and, really, is one of the least worrisome ones. I won't rag on them too badly for this.

2 - Calcium chloride, for product texture, has been added. Calcium chloride is used on roads. Interestingly, calicum chloride treated roads reduce loss of aggregate by up to 75 percent. Isn't that nice? It's used to salt roads, also; it effectively lowers the freezing point of moisture on road bases to nearly 60 degrees below zero. You aren't a road and you aren't moisture. You really probably don't want this stuff in your body.

3 - Sulfur dioxide. I saw this, and I actually flinched. I say this, because sulfur dioxide is a key factor in acid rain. Sulfur dioxide is a product of the burning of sulfurous waste, which then oxidizes to become sulfur dioxide. Sulfur dioxide then encounters and reacts with moisture (water, really) in the atmosphere to form a weak acid. This acid can be defined as a weaker version of sulfuric acid (the same stuff that's in some car batteries, is used industrially, and will burn you to a crisp). Sulfur dioxide is but one reaction away from becoming sulfur trioxide. Sulfur trioxide reacts violently with water to form sulfuric acid. There's moisture in your body, and if sulfur dioxide contributes to acid rain, I doubt you'd want to eat it.

4 - If you look, you'll see that very few of the edibles in Sam's Choice Tropical Trail mix are actually from the United States. Firstly, this means that they probably weren't fresh when they entered the country. They surely aren't fresh after they've sat on the store shelf for a while, sat on your pantry shelf for a while, and by the time they enter your digestive tract, they're no fresher.