San Pellegrino
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spangle82

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336 posts

265 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Anyone else noticed that these formerly nice soft drinks have changed to rather nasty? I think it's the sweeteners. It's almost impossible to find a soft drink that isn't polluted with artificial sweeteners.

bingybongy

4,088 posts

172 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Every soft drink has been fked by the race to cut sugar, apart from Rio (available from Costco)

Brads67

3,199 posts

124 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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I prefer it with less sugar.

Still the best carbonated drink out there.

Tyre Tread

10,664 posts

242 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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I'm so glad its not just me that's noticed this.

The sweeteners leave a horrible taste in my mouth.

How long before its discovered that sweeteners are so bad for you that you're better off with sugar?

Similar to the recent information that butter is much less harmful for you than margarine.

VAGLover

918 posts

104 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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spangle82 said:
Anyone else noticed that these formerly nice soft drinks have changed to rather nasty? I think it's the sweeteners. It's almost impossible to find a soft drink that isn't polluted with artificial sweeteners.
Here are so many natural soft drinks

Karma kola
Steep soda
Also
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/best-natura...

GT03ROB

14,010 posts

247 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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I wondered why I thought they suddenly didn't;t taste as good.

The chinotto was something else.

Driver101

14,451 posts

147 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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They are horrible now. I stopped buying them a while ago.

spangle82

Original Poster:

336 posts

265 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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The funny thing is they dont mention it on the can. Youd think if they had removed sugar for marketing reasons they would shout 'NEW SUGAR FREE RECIPE!' on the can... but you are left to discover the filth yourself. Or do marketing people think we wont notice and they are just doing it to save money?

There was nothing wrong with saccharin IMHO.

C0ffin D0dger

3,440 posts

171 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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This really annoys me. I used to enjoy a fizzy drink once in a while but they're all horrible now. I was brought up in a time when these things were seen as an occasional treat not a drink to be had several times a day. I've always enjoyed them on that basis maybe drinking a couple a month on average. Why should I have to suffer just because the idiots can't moderate their intake.

Seems like Coca Cola (Coke) is one of the few mainstream brands to remain untouched. It will be a bad day when this gets it's sugar replaced with artificial cr*p.

Condi

19,954 posts

197 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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Crawford Press is still full sugar. Nice drink too.

Composite Guru

2,452 posts

229 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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Red Bull Simply Cola has no artificial rubbish in it.
Its a nice drink when it's really cold.

Mobile Chicane

21,884 posts

238 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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San Pellegrino orange, really cold, used to be the best hangover buster that I know of. It's awful now.

On the other hand, San Pellegrino have introduced peach and lemon variants of iced tea, which are both lovely. Peach in particular, as it actually tastes like peaches, as opposed to ghastly peach 'flavour'.


Teebs

5,734 posts

241 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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It's owned by Nestlè who are actively moving away from unhealthy categories. They are following the health agenda at the expense of sales revenue..

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

212 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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Why could manufacturers not just make things less sweet instead of pouring loads of fake sugar in?

Or have my tastes been ruined by 30 years on the pop?

Condi

19,954 posts

197 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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Teebs said:
It's owned by Nestlè who are actively moving away from unhealthy categories. They are following the health agenda at the expense of sales revenue..
Or because the sugar tax makes the original more expensive than the new one.

Its why you are starting to see Diet Coke and Coke Zero priced cheaper than original Coke. At least buyers of Coke have an option to pay more and chose what they like, for something like San Pel the market isn't big enough to offer both versions.

soxboy

7,458 posts

245 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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San Pellegrino, aka 'Tory Tizer'

spangle82

Original Poster:

336 posts

265 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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Condi said:
Teebs said:
It's owned by Nestlè who are actively moving away from unhealthy categories. They are following the health agenda at the expense of sales revenue..
Or because the sugar tax makes the original more expensive than the new one.
How many pence on a tin would the sugar tax have been? I'd rather pay it and have something drinkable.

Still, it means theres a sector in the market - 'soft drinks that taste nice' - that hopefully someone can fill.

Condi

19,954 posts

197 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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spangle82 said:
How many pence on a tin would the sugar tax have been? I'd rather pay it and have something drinkable.
8p.

Which doesn't sound much, but if you think a shop selling a can at 80p is probably buying it for 40p, less distribution costs of maybe 2p, means that the 8p tax is otherwise a huge amount of the 38p the manufacturer needs to sell them for ex-factory. The choice is either to increase the sales price of cut the sugar.

Puggit

49,518 posts

274 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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Bloody sugar tax - has ruined drinks.

gregs656

12,167 posts

207 months

Thursday 12th September 2019
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spangle82 said:
There was nothing wrong with saccharin IMHO.
Saccharin is an artificial sweetener??

Can Still get 'normal' San Pellegrino here. I don't mind the reduced sugar one but it's not the same.