Or was it potatoes? Tomatoes? Ginger rhizomes?
Nobody knows. Unlike other beverages, a bottle of Smirnoff Ice doesn’t list the ingredients, and the official website doesn’t provide any additional data neither.
It was my understanding that food labels are required to list all ingredients, in order of decreasing weight. (See the label on an Almaza bottle below)
This leaves Smirnoff vulnerable to rumors.
Conveniently, the trend now is to accuse people and companies randomly on blogs, having as only proof a vague lack of denial from the accused parties.
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