/ck/ - Food & Cooking

LaCroix websites state "We do not add any artificial sweeteners, sugars or sodium to our waters.", but they ARE sweet. They also said "The flavors are derived from the natural essence oils extracted from the named fruit used in each of our LaCroix flavors. There are no sugars or artificial ingredients contained in, nor added to, these extracted flavors."

But the fact of the matter is that LaCroix IS sweet. Flavor "essence" will give it a taste, but it will not make a drink sweet.
So I got to thinking, is there word choice "no sugars or artificial ingredients added" purposely phrased that way?
Forget artificial, do you have to disclose whether or not "natural sweetners" are present?

What I'm getting at is LaCroix using a natural sweetner but not disclosing it? If so, what would it be? Stevia?
I got really curious about this because the LaCroix website is purposely vague and ambiguous about their recipe, if you look at their website or interviews, they're always vague about this shit.