Posted on 07/27/2013 1:38:23 PM PDT by neverdem
It seems that not even Beyonce or new, lower-calorie options can convince Americans to drink more soda.
Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc. and Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. all sold less soda in the second quarter in North America, dashing hopes for the moment that splashy new marketing and different sweetener mixes could get drinkers back.
Coca-Cola Co. said it sold 4 percent less soda in North America, while PepsiCo Inc. simply said its decline for the region was in the "mid-single digits." Dr Pepper sold 3 percent less of the fizzy drinks...
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As it turns out corn syrup (fructose) might be isocaloric with sucrose but it isn’t isometabolic.
We drink a few sugar sweetened sodas from an independent company (in glass bottles) per month. Otherwise we drink filtered water and coffee.
I’m drinking peppermint tea right now.
...not even Beyonce....
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How about: Especially not Beyonce....
+1
When I was in college I'd have a case of Yeungling pints and add a case of Lord Chesterfield Ale or porter each week.
Last year I was rerouted on a flight to Florida and ended up in Newark with a 4 hour layover. Oddly, I ended up in a bar. I noticed the Yeungling on tap and ordered a pint glass. $13.00. I told the bartender that I used to buy cases of pints for $4.80 - 20¢ each.
I watched an old friend, who is a chef now, make a drink on youtube. He put some lemon and mint down into the ice and crushed them a bit before adding the liquids, to release their oils. I started doing that with my teas, using really well washed sliced lemons and limes, along with mind leaves and a bit of sugar. Not just dropped in, or squeezed, but crushed in the ice. Very tasty.
We have been using the Big Brita Pitcher for years.
When Brita came out with their 20 ounce squeeze bottle with a disposable filter, we started using them instead of the expensive bottled water.
http://www.brita.com/products/filtering-bottle/brita-bottle-navy/
Our bottled water useage has gone down to less than a case per month, and most of that is used in a Cpap machine.
We both got semi hooked on the Lipton Green Tea in their 16.9 ounce bottle. The prices on this product went up weekly, it seemed. When the prices got to about a $ per bottle, we went back to brewing our own Green Sun Tea.
Now, we now brew Lipton Green Tea in our sun tea container. We throw in some lemon, mint and a flavored tea bag. We fill water bottles with the sun tea and ice cubes for a great low cost beverage.
We are saving money big time with the Brita Water Bottle and now making our own Green Sun Tea.
Agreed. I haven't had a Coke, diet or otherwise, since Christmas.
Iced tea for me, and I've found a way to avoid processed sugar or artificial sweeteners, too.
Stevia. I won't lie, it takes a little getting used to... but it's no calorie and completely natural. As a Southerner, I just can't make the jump to fully unsweetened tea. Like another Freeper, my wife also drops in a lemon or peppermint herbal tea bag. Refreshing.
They're even making stevia sweetened sodas now, and they're not too bad; they are expensive though. They are a "special treat" now, rather than the cans and cans of regular Cokes I used to drink.
I like an occasional root beer or Sprite, but rarely bring the stuff into the house. No nutritional value and not good for you.
Four years ago....I probably went through a case of Pepsi every month. Today? I’m doing ice tea with a lemon, and have had six Pepsi’s since Christmas. Back in the late 90’s I was probably having three Pepsi’s a day.
I never got hooked on the soda thing. Still drink one every 6-8 weeks or so. Usually plain old filtered tap water after the morning coffee.
Beyonce pimping for Pepsi made me change to Coke.
Is it even isocaloric, there’s a study that shows more sugars than indicated on the label after acid hydrolysis.
Aspartame is harmful? To believe that you'd also have to believe that a banana is harmful....or a small piece of grilled chicken with a glass of apple juice/tomato juice/red wine.
The only reason that Coke puts salt in their sodas is to make you thirsty.
Do you really think that just 35 mg. of sodium in a 12 oz. coke can make you thirsty? Please. The reason there's sodium in coke is because they use carbonated water, not pure water. If you want water without sodium, you'd have to distill it, and no beverage company is going to add that cost to their process. Flavor manufacturing utilizes a water process, so the flavoring will also contribute to the sodium content.
Everything in food isn't a conspiracy, even though the crazies at CSPI may say otherwise.
Corn syrup is mostly glucose....around 96%.
From wiki:
“HFCS consists of 24% water, and the rest sugars. The most widely used varieties of HFCS are: HFCS 55 (mostly used in soft drinks), approximately 55% fructose and 42% glucose”
55% > 42% and both are less than 96%. I’m not aware of any soft drinks that use ordinary ‘corn syrup’.
HFCS42 is irrelevant in my house. We don’t eat preprocessed foods. The only time I use any ordinary ‘corn syrup’ is at Christmas when I make divinity and a pecan pie.
The few sodas we drink are ones that don’t contain artificial colors:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17825405
And those are normally ones made with real cane sugar.
High fructose corn syrup is a very different product than corn syrup. Different process, different chemical composition, and different applications.
And the comment was referring to soft drinks.
How many soft drinks are made with ‘corn syrup’?
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