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Posted on 06/12/2026 6:52:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
Drinks can spike blood sugar and increase risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, doctors say
The latest beverage trend is far from clean – and it’s raising red flags with doctors.
Known as a "dirty soda," it’s a soft drink that also includes a combination of added ingredients, such as flavored syrups, creamers, fruit juices and other garnishes. The result is a sweet beverage that’s a combination of a soda, mocktail and dessert.
Dirty sodas can easily deliver 250-400 calories and 55-70 grams of sugar in a single drink – which is often more than double the American Heart Association’s daily added sugar limit, according to Erin Palinski-Wade, a New Jersey-based registered dietitian.
"It’s more like a dessert beverage than a soft drink, even if people use diet soda as the base," she told Fox News Digital.
The drinks are most dangerous for those with insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes, Palinski-Wade warned.
"The combination of rapidly absorbed sugar plus cream can cause sharp blood sugar spikes and crashes, driving hunger, fatigue and higher insulin demands," she cautioned.
The trend is said to have originated in Utah years ago at a specialty soda shop, Swig, reportedly due to people in the Mormon faith seeking an alternative to coffee. The drink was then popularized by social media and TV shows, such as "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives," according to Eater.com.
The dirty soda trend is widely credited to Swig, a Utah-based soda shop founded in 2010. The concept reportedly gained popularity in Utah, where many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abstain from coffee and alcohol, helping create demand for customizable, non-alcoholic drinks.
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Wait…Mormons don’t drink coffee?
Recently, a group tested the so-called ORIGINAL recipe Mexican Cokes, supposedly made with cane sugar instead of HFCS, and discovered that they actually had HFCS!
What was happening is there are now counterfeit Mexican Cokes on the market! Even though the label says sugar it isn’t, it’s HFCS!..........
Nothing with caffeine in it..........But not all Mormons follow that..........
An “egg cream” is a classic New York City soda fountain
drink made from milk, carbonated water, and chocolate syrup.
Despite its name it contains neither eggs nor cream.
It’s known for its frothy head, created by the seltzer,
and is served cold; best enjoyed immediately after mixing.
The name is thought to come from the foamy head resembling beaten egg whites.
I ran out of Root Beer. I have ice cream and one sugar cone left. :-(
Beer is much healthier than soda!
Is beer food? Asking for a friend.
Oh well somebody sells a pill for it
Everything is a scam now
probably the cartels doing this........
They drink soda. They just don’t drink soda with caffeine.
I know what they drink. My point was a “dirty soda” is even more caloric than a Hawaiian Punch or 7up. If they local Mormons are drinking a lot of them, it is not showing up on the waist line. That is a credit to them on that score.
“On the other hand, I do not see a lot of fat Mormons around here.”
I know a few around here. Really fat, too!
Go to the store....buy some root beer.
THere is a plae near where I live called Twisters. It is soda pop mixed with all kinds of flavorings.
I don’t go to the place but it is popular witn young people.
So, like the SJWarriors, some supposed doctors have injected the word “dirty” to villeinize something they cannot treat. Like calling everyone a bigot.
I count calories...so I have to be careful. I weigh 117 lbs same as when I got married 60+ years ago...I'm 82.
Root Beer doesn't have caffein...I get carsick and always had root beer syrup on long trips.
All sodas, sugared or artificially sweetened are poison. My father was in the industry for over thirty years and none of his kids drink a drop of it.
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