Coca Cola (Soft/Fizzy) drinks

Blimey, I don’t feel too bad now.
I’m weaning myself off them - I don’t trust the zeros or diet drinks , I think they’ve got more dodgy chemicals than the full fat ones.
It’s definitely my caffeine fix as I tend to feel a headache come on if I’ve not had one for a while.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Blimey, I don’t feel too bad now.
I’m weaning myself off them - I don’t trust the zeros or diet drinks , I think they’ve got more dodgy chemicals than the full fat ones.
It’s definitely my caffeine fix as I tend to feel a headache come on if I’ve not had one for a while.
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Is that sugar in general for you then? Or just the caffeine?
 
jimharri said:
In a standard 12 oz can of non diet coke, there's 39 grams of sugar. That's near as dammit 10 teaspoons. Anyone who thinks, "meh, that's not much"; either make yourself a cuppa with ten spoons of sugar in it, and try and drink it. Or, measure out ten spoons of sugar into a bowl, and look at how much it actually is.


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Yep, vile. That is so much sugar. We played a trick on my lasses lad, who goes through full sugar Dr. Pepper like water. Put the label of the full fat one on a bottle of zero, and that was the end of his obscene sugar intake.
 
I replaced my love of fizzy drinks with a sodastream at home and smash the sparkling water these days, which has lead me to buy sparkling water the majority of the time for at work. I still get the pleasurable fizz without the crap.

I'll have the odd bottle of pepsi max. I like the mango one currently. A diet coke/pepsi with the weekend takeaway/delivery.

I've completely stopped sugar drinks since stopping consuming sugar 7 or 8 years ago, which means I no longer drink tea because I only like it with sugar.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
Yep, vile. That is so much sugar. We played a trick on my lasses lad, who goes through full sugar Dr. Pepper like water. Put the label of the full fat one on a bottle of zero, and that was the end of his obscene sugar intake.
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But is it any better ? That sugar is being replaced by more chemicals.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
I feel I’m ok with other sugar stuff, I don’t really crave it - but Coke I find really addictive.
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You are Tony Montana and I want my five pounds ;-)

Re the chemicals, for me as a type two one read they’re equally as damaging as the sugar, hence why I only have the odd one.

I’ve never really been bothered with fizzy drinks if truth be told. I like a nice cold, ice cold cordial. Zero sugar of course.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Blimey, I don’t feel too bad now.
I’m weaning myself off them - I don’t trust the zeros or diet drinks , I think they’ve got more dodgy chemicals than the full fat ones.
It’s definitely my caffeine fix as I tend to feel a headache come on if I’ve not had one for a while.
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Have you considered the headaches might be the sugar? Blood glucose overload or something or your brain hooked on sugar and demanding more.

And I'd also doubt the small amount of sweetener is anywhere near as harmful as the amount of sugar in these drinks.

I think the ingredients in both sugar and sugar free are relatively similar, just the sugar v sweetener difference. Have you done a ingredients comparison? I could imagine there being a bigger difference in US colas etc but not so much in UK and European versions.

We discovered Coca Cola in Italy that used Stevia as the sweetener. Never seen it here otherwise that would be my coke of choice.
 
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Not too much, unless I’m on holiday, which is every other week :)

In general, I’d rather just have one full-sugar coke a week than 10 of those hideous aspartame concoctions.
 
Fourinarow said:
Have you considered the headaches might be the sugar? Blood glucose overload or something or your brain hooked on sugar and demanding more.

And I'd also doubt the small amount of sweetener is anywhere near as harmful as the amount of sugar in these drinks.

I think the ingredients in both sugar and sugar free are relatively similar, just the sugar v sweetener difference. Have you done a ingredients comparison? I could imagine there being a bigger difference in US colas etc but not so much in UK and European versions.

We discovered Coca Cola in Italy that used Stevia as the sweetener. Never seen it here otherwise that would be my coke of choice.
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Stevia coke was around here maybe 10 years ago, didn't stay for long though, at a guess no more than a year.
 
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