Coca - Cola : Artificial Sweetners now in Dr Pepper

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FurtiveFreddy said:

Tab.

That's all I'm going to say on the matter.

Is your name Marty McFly?

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hidetheelephants said:

Is it even sugar they're getting rid of; I thought a lot of these were high fructose corn syrup, thanks to insane US federal farm subsidies?

only in the US and possibly Canada

European , and 'rest of the the world' fizz uses the available local sugar (generally beet in europe and cane elsewhere).. which makes the hipster front bottoms who import US 'throwback' fizz double muppets - the 'throwback' premium priced stuff serves a purpose in the US i.e. officially sanctioned real sugar fizz against HFCS

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zygalski said:

Guys complaining that stty, sugary junk drinks now just taste stty?
Oh dear.

But I do enjoy them occasionally. And once the ingredients are fked with - they taste totally different, almost unpleasant.
Zero sugar this, diet that. You fk with the taste, I no longer buy them.

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And to add, breweries (the ones who produce stty mass-marketed piss-flavoured excuse for a beer!) fked with the ABV% levels too, that's apparently to do with the taxes.
Now Cola Cola fks with the sugary drinks! Do these cost savings get passed on to me?! Tight s!

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anonymous said:

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I did notice, yet another con. Pepsi it is then.

What happened to 3 litre Coke?

[IanMorewood]

Uk is putting pressure on all food and drink manufactures to reduce sugar. It's like trying to find an orange squash now that doesn't contain aspartame, waitrose seems to be my only supermarket choice right now.

[Oakey]

It's happening to everything though, isn't it? Even something simple like a slice of toast tastes st nowadays.

[Ace-T]

IanMorewood said:

Uk is putting pressure on all food and drink manufactures to reduce sugar. It's like trying to find an orange squash now that doesn't contain aspartame, waitrose seems to be my only supermarket choice right now.

Artificial sweeteners are a migraine trigger for the OH. All lemonades apart from San Pelegrino and Belvior have aspartame in them which when he has consumed it gives him a 3 day special. Coca-Cola (red can) or water is the only thing he can drink on a night out (alchohol is a trigger too ). Awful, awful stuff.

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Ace-T said:

Artificial sweeteners are a migraine trigger for the OH. All lemonades apart from San Pelegrino and Belvior have aspartame in them which when he has consumed it gives him a 3 day special. Coca-Cola (red can) or water is the only thing he can drink on a night out (alchohol is a trigger too ). Awful, awful stuff.

What is a '3 day special'? I drink way too much Pepsi Max and do often wonder the effects of the artificial sweetener. The caffeine I know about ...

[Ace-T]

boxst said:

What is a '3 day special'? I drink way too much Pepsi Max and do often wonder the effects of the artificial sweetener. The caffeine I know about ...

3 days of horrible pain, lying in a dark and quiet room, drugged up with as much codeine, ibuprofen, paracetamol etc. that he can lay his hands on. Followed by a day and a half of feeling his brain has turned to utter mush: difficulty articulating, co-ordination shot to bits. This is what is known as the 'post drome' phase of migraine and is possibly the most horrible; no pain but you cannot function normally and feel like your IQ has halved.

The sweetener is a trigger that is guaranteed to push him right over the migraine threshold. fking awful stuff that needs removing from the planet.

Oh and IIRC studies in the US on rats (poor things) showed increased likelihood of brain tumours when fed that crap.

[IanMorewood]

Mum is the same Ace, it's the aspartame amongst it's many side effects headaches and migraines are known to be commonplace. More worrying is retinal deterioration, not something you can fix once it happens.

[bluelightbabe]

soad said:

I did notice, yet another con. Pepsi it is then.

What happened to 3 litre Coke?

Iceland sell it

[folos]

Bought a bottle yesterday, tastes like st. Is there nothing they won't ruin?

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bluelightbabe said:

Iceland sell it

Who goes there though? Can't be many stores left...

Tesco does two x 1.75 litre bottles of Coke for £2, that's good enough for me.

[Matt_N]

Just checked what sweeteners they are using, aspartame and acesulfame K, the latter is a potassium salt containing methylene chloride, a known carcinogen, nice!

[bluelightbabe]

soad said:

Who goes there though? Can't be many stores left...

Tesco does two x 1.75 litre bottles of Coke for £2, that's good enough for me.

I go there, but only for Coke My local Iceland is in the shopping centre right next to the car park machines, and the Coke is always on display by the door which reminds me to stock up when I'm in town and heading back to the car.

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Ace-T said:

The sweetener is a trigger that is guaranteed to push him right over the migraine threshold. fking awful stuff that needs removing from the planet.

You could surely say the same about alcohol since that is a similar trigger?

Ace-T said:

Oh and IIRC studies in the US on rats (poor things) showed increased likelihood of brain tumours when fed that crap.

There's no credible evidence of tumours caused by aspartame in any mammals, and given how much controversy there has been over aspartame it has been extensively sudided so you'd think someone might have found it by now.

Matt_N said:

Just checked what sweeteners they are using, aspartame and acesulfame K, the latter is a potassium salt containing methylene chloride, a known carcinogen, nice!

Not sure where you got that info from; Acesulfame K doesn't contain any chlorine at all, let alone methylene chloride. Side note, methylene chloride isn't a known carcinogen in any event, it's a suspected carcinogen but there hasn't been sufficient research on it top say either way (and given it's somewhat toxic it's hard to research since human exposure to it is generally limited).

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soad said:

Who goes there though? Can't be many stores left...

Tesco does two x 1.75 litre bottles of Coke for £2, that's good enough for me.

Yeah but they used to do four x 2 litre bottles for £4. So you're paying the same for 12.5% less Coke.

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calibrax said:

Yeah but they used to do four x 2 litre bottles for £4. So you're paying the same for 12.5% less Coke.

Less calories is a good thing for the middle aged person.

Only drink it ocasionally now. Used to down a whole bottle with a pizza takeaway!

[Halb]

So 7-up is still sugar only?

Try finding a sugar only chewing gum, it takes some searching.