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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    What exactly is in your LaCroix?

    The label on every LaCroix can lists two ingredients: “carbonated water,” and “natural flavors.”

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 8, 2018 • 1 min read

    The label on every LaCroix can lists two ingredients: “carbonated water,” and “natural flavors.” Now there’s a class-action suit against the company alleging that the natural flavors aren’t natural at all, and that LaCroix contains some potentially toxic chemicals, like one that’s used to kill cockroaches.

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    2. 9:36How will Justice Kavanaugh rule?
    3. 17:30Is the Supreme Court more politically ideological than ever before?
    4. 25:11How a Russian spy and American spy worked on opposite sides of the Cold War, but became best friends
    5. 39:46What exactly is in your LaCroix?You’re reading this
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