Soft drinks that don't contain artificial sweetners
Discussion
r3g said:
Hughesie said:
I huy these US style powdered drinks sachets, add the ti a litre of water and good to go:
https://www.sweetpunkz.com/collections/powdered-dr...
I buy in bulk, £100 a time, loads of variety and lasts me about 6 months
Hughesie
They're all full of aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium. :facepalm: https://www.sweetpunkz.com/collections/powdered-dr...
I buy in bulk, £100 a time, loads of variety and lasts me about 6 months
Hughesie
"Citric Acid, Aspartame, Maltodextrin, Artificial Flavours, Red 40, Contains 2% or less of: Magnesium Oxide, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium. Contains Phenylalanine. e."
"citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, aspartame, maltodextrin, contains 2% or less of the following: magnesium oxide, artificial color, acesulfame potassium, yellow 5, red 40"
I suspect you've clicked on the wrong thread.
American drinks are soo poor, even the coke cola doesn't contain sugar!
Ace-T said:
Sounds delightful...Guardian said:
Neotame was developed in 2002 as a substitute for aspartame, a sweetener which has aroused concerns, and has become widely used in recent years in drinks and foodstuffs sold in the UK. It is often referred to as E961 on the list of ingredients found on labels of products.
Chichger, an associate professor at Anglia Ruskin University, and the study’s co-author, Dr Aparna Shil, of Jahangirnagar University, in Bangladesh, said neotame carried a threat to health because it could damage the intestine by causing “good bacteria” to become diseased and invade the gut wall. In the process that could lead to illness because the epithelial barrier, part of the gut wall, could break down.
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Previous research, including by Chichger, found that other common sweeteners – such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame – can also have that harmful effect.
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“This can lead to a range of potential health issues including diarrhoea, intestinal inflammation, and even infections such as septicaemia if the bacteria were to enter the blood stream. Therefore, it is important to also study sweeteners that have been introduced more recently, and our new research demonstrates that neotame causes similar problems, including gut bacteria becoming diseased.”
Remind me again why I avoid all sweeteners as far as possible? Chichger, an associate professor at Anglia Ruskin University, and the study’s co-author, Dr Aparna Shil, of Jahangirnagar University, in Bangladesh, said neotame carried a threat to health because it could damage the intestine by causing “good bacteria” to become diseased and invade the gut wall. In the process that could lead to illness because the epithelial barrier, part of the gut wall, could break down.
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Previous research, including by Chichger, found that other common sweeteners – such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame – can also have that harmful effect.
...
“This can lead to a range of potential health issues including diarrhoea, intestinal inflammation, and even infections such as septicaemia if the bacteria were to enter the blood stream. Therefore, it is important to also study sweeteners that have been introduced more recently, and our new research demonstrates that neotame causes similar problems, including gut bacteria becoming diseased.”
Given that (IIRC) research seems to be indicating that health of the gut biome is a key factor in a range of wider health aspects, I will not be surprised when it finally comes out that they are in fact a terrible idea that is slowly killing us. (Or that the industry decides there is nothing to see here and buries all such information as 'conspiracy theory lunacy'...
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Oliver Hardy said:
tight fart said:
I guess there’s a lot more money to be made from sweeteners than sugar.
Isn't it due to government sugar tax???Coke from supermarkets ( 24 can pack ) is usually double the price of the diet stuff, and I guessing the diet is still more profitable?
tim jb said:
FilH said:
I feel it was a bit of an excuse by manufacturers to not use expensive sugar anymore and use the cheeper sweetners to maximise profits.
Do you think that is realistic? If drinks became purely sweetener based I wouldn't buy them at all. Fizzy drinks used to be 10% sugar.
Cheaper drinks started to drop - Panda cola etc.
Then branded drinks started dropping, like Lilt, Sunkist, Tizer etc - mixing sugar with sweetner.
As soon as Sugar Tax kicked in, pretty much everything dropped overnight to 4.9%
Now cheap, supermarket own is a low as 2.1%
Pepsi dropped to 7%
Coca Cola is the only one standing - apart from the niche examples here.
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