Take that, red bull bonces!!!

  • PortNull@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 minutes ago

    actually according to their website it’s 27g of sugars. What I found even funnier (or worse) though is this

    Makes it look like RB has less sugar than juice, but we’re comparing 100ml of the bull to 250ml of juice. FFS

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    12 hours ago

    I thought that the sugar industry worked really hard to ensure they didn’t have to show a daily % amount on the right across from the grams listing. I have never seen a % there before. Crazy.

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    14 hours ago

    The slogan, “RedBull gives you Wings” needs an asterisk. It only applies to those who are grated into heaven after they die of diabeetus

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    16 hours ago

    “Nah im not tired or insomniac i just love consuming 3 cans of bull piss every single day it tastes just good”

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    As someone who grew up avoiding sugar and having to look at the back of everything this would have been relatively low in sugar compared to other products sold in that same store in my area. In the South of the US you would have a hard time finding something lower than sprite and or tea(~35g)without alternative synthetic sweeteners like aspertain and sucralose or just water and those options used to be sparce. A lot of times a convenience store would only have diet coke, unsweet tea, or water unless I was okay with 30+ grams of sugar. I’m not saying that it’s okay to have that much sugar, but it definitely seems far out of the way from some of the much lower hanging fruit. For example even Gatorade and Powerade have more sugar per package unit and those were available via vending machines IN the school. Also, pretty much every fast-food drink station makes you choose between water, unsweetened tea, or something with almost 50g of sugar when in a can.

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    You probably shouldn’t look at the sugar in the sweet tea from McDonald’s then…

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      14 hours ago

      Ooooo… don’t tempt me… McDonald’s has a memeable slogan too…

      On second thought: I think Spurlock beat me to it (because he was telling the tru- oh wait…)

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    There are few drinks that I can’t stand the smell of but Redbull just smells fucking disgusting.

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    15 hours ago

    The fastest way to give lab rats diabetes is to feed them vegetable oil.

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    Omfg, this whole comment section is actually infuriating. Y’all motherfuckers need jesus Liam

    Aspartame is fine, sugar won’t hurt you. Just drink in moderation, and you’re golden.

    Stop spreading FUD.

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah. It’s not over 100%. Just drink one and it’s fine.

      If you can’t control yourself drink the diet version or switch to something else.

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        I added flavored (aspartame) carbonated waters to balance out my soda addiction. One can a day, a couple sips of the carbonated drinks, and a ton of water. Took a few years, but much healthier

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        Did… did you read them, “bro”? Because they’re making my point, not yours.

        The mice were fed an exclusive high fat high carb diet containing double the amount of aspartame that you’d find in a zero sugar drink. They’re mice. Scaling that amount up to match mg/kg in a human would be an ASTRONOMICAL amount of aspartame consumed at every meal, for 12 weeks. Even then, the effects in mice were not even exclusive to the aspartame group. ETA: did the math: It’s 5.2 MILLION cans of coke zero. Every meal. For 12 weeks.

        The second one rated it as 2B, or the weakest link, and it says right there: “JECFA reaffirmed the acceptable daily intake of 40 mg/kg body weight.” ETA: Just to put that 2B rating into perspective, shift work, as in working unusual hours, is rated as 2A, which is higher. Magnetic fields have a rating of 2B.

        Your last study is interesting but far from conclusive. It found a correlation, which is not causation. Even the author suspects “chronic high intake” of being the culprit.

        Stop spreading FUD. Drink in moderation, and you’re golden.

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          While I fully agree with your comments on aspartame and have read these posted articles, I would have to disagree with you on the regular sugar part. The more we are researching sugar and its connection with heart health, the lower the recommended daily intake becomes. One of the reasons it is in fact still so HIGH of a recommendation is due to the sugary drink lobby going against the American heart association (as well as almost every physician organization) for the FDA recommendations.

          But yes, in moderation you are fine. Just not as freely with the moderation as they make you think you have. This redbull is claiming 26g of sugar is only 53% of you limit, when the AHA limit is only 36g for men (and 25g for women!). So, bad in moderation.

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      Amazing how I’ve single handedly set this entire community on fire with this lol. I shall have to learn from this experience and do it all again.