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Coca-Cola Recalls Its Popular Zero Sugar Drink Because It Contains Full Sugar
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Put cocaine back in it.
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This was orange juice not coca cola zero (the headline is misleading)
If i have to guess the gymnic was that they add zero additional sugar (but oranges still have sugar).
While I hate these misleading names and i am in favour of this kind of actions; i suspect diabetic people are familiar with this BS and would have read the nutrition facts
Lemonade, not orange juice. And no, it was a zero sugar lemonade, artificially sweetened, and they put sugar in it accidentally.
But I agree, the headline should have been worded better.
so they made it taste like shit for no reason
I thought the main danger to diabetics was not having sugar after taking insulin.
Too high or too low can be dangerous, and there's different varieties of diabetes that make one or both swings more likely/dangerous.
That's only a danger if they take too much insulin. Insulin is used by the body to make the cells absorb sugar.
I’m not 100%, but I’m pretty sure the issue is with restricted ability to use / produce insulin to regulate blood sugar thus leading to dangerously high levels.
Blood sugar can be too high as well.
Sugar or high fructose corn syrup?
HFCS is sugar. Just not cane sugar. And at the end of the day, sugar is sugar and we shouldn't be having it all the time.
Yes but I like making cheap jabs at the drink industry.
On a serious note - you're absolutely right to avoid sugar, and I stopped drinking sweetened beverages many years ago. From what I understand though, people would develop fewer health problems if they consumed cane sugar instead of HFCS. Apparently the unbound fructose makes a difference when consuming sugar at such a high volume.
I'm afraid that HFCS and cane sugar affect your health equally.
Well that was an interesting rabbit hole. There have been a number of new studies in the past decade, and researchers are still investigating the effects of free fructose in sweeteners.
This study is fairly recent: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188419/
This study notes how the actual amount of fructose varies from the expected amount in popular beverages: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900714001920
Every study I read continues to point out that sweeteners with free fructose taste sweeter and have negative health effects in large quantities while stating how results are inconclusive due to excessively caloric intake. I'm still skeptical of HFCS for now.
Whew good thing I drink diet Dr Pepper!
The recall was initiated on September 10…
Yay! An urgent thing that happened over a month ago! I sure am glad that people get timely notifications of these events.
Fun story, the recent meat recall (the second one) affected some salads I bought early September.. we got an email long after we'd eaten them letting us know, and to call "this number" if you'd like a refund.
Sorry, I lied, it wasn't a fun story.
You should just shit in a box and mail it to them.
I'm not quite sure how this would done in a timely-er fashion. Signage in the stores? In theory, anyone paying with plastic could have been contacted through the card company.
That would involve the manufacturer alerting the store, the store alerting all the various card companies, then the card companies alerting the customer. That's a lot of infrastructure to keep running and to do so fast enough that the customer finds out within a day or two of the recall.
Expensive. Worthwhile given the potential to save lives or hospital stays, but you know how companies are.
This would also involve admitting all your purchase history is collected and stored in a way that is not anonymized, which I don't think people would quite like to be explicitly told about.
In Germany, supermarkets typically post product recalls right on the doors or over the shelves of the section that has the affected products. I guess if you bought something you might be less likely to go down that aisle again next time and come across the sign, but (barring a big empty space at the entrance) I think that's the most reasonable place for them to be
Same in Belgium and the Netherlands. On the stores website too.
Do you ever find there are a lot of these signs at any given time? Having them in a designated area by the entryway then maybe again by the shelf where they stock it seems like a good combination.
In my head I worry it might become overwhelming to the point no one reads them anymore. Though I suppose that could be mitigated with a large image of the recalled product, to make it easier to check at a glance without having to stop and read for a minute. I can't remember ever seeing signage at the shops near me. I wish we had that.
Maybe I'm overthinking it and it's a rarity to ever have more than a couple products be recalled at a single time. Can't say I've put much thought into any of this before.
They're not super common. I don't see one every single time I go grocery shopping, though I would say typically there are maybe one or two recalls posted somewhere in the store at a time. Most I've seen at once is four, maybe a year or so ago, but they also keep the signs up for a few weeks so they didn't happen all at once.
They do always have either a picture of the product or at least the name prominently placed, so you can glance at it to see whether it's about something you might have bought.
in my experience, it is rare to see two recalls at the same time in the same store. and yes, there usually is a rather large picture of the product. standard size paper (din a4) where the top half is a picture and the bottom half a description of the recall with info as to why and which batch numbers are affected.
Ah okay, I like that implementation. Good to have it be eye-catching and not just a bunch of text. Thanks for letting me know.
I never even mentioned alerting individual customers. The publication date on the story is TODAY. We can certainly do better than that.
I understood that from your comment. I wasn't contradicting you or challenging what you said, just wondering aloud how we might go about it and pointing out some flaws in my own point.
That said, even if this article was published the day of the recall, I imagine only a minority of the affected purchasers would ever see it. I couldn't say I've ever looked at a recipes website to inform me of important consumer news.
This might possibly be the most civil, respectful misunderstanding I’ve ever seen. I appreciate it.
Par for the course with online discussions, I'd say. Always difficult to discern the tone of a comment when it's written down. No harm done.
Cheers!
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