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Well, I mean it's not going to kill a diabetic if they consume sugar they weren't anticipating.. sure it might spike their levels higher than anticipated, but it would only cause harm long term if they didn't monitor .
if they didn’t monitor
You're talking about a country with a for-profit healthcare system.
How does this keep happening? Poor quality control. Pepsi had similar earlier this year.
Same here. The magic is gone.
FYI there is no such thing as truly "zero calorie". Sure, we can't use aspartame and those "0 calorie" sweeteners for energy BUT our gut microbes can metabolize those compounds into products that we can then use for energy. So one way or another you're still taking in calories. Now do you gain more energy from straight sugar vs the sweeteners? I have no idea, I haven't studied this in years. I just like to bring up that little bit of trivia whenever anyone brings up zero calorie drinks in conversation :)
Hah, love this. Never change buddy. You're the best :-).
It doesn’t really matter if aspartame and sugar have the same amount of calories when you use 1/200th as much to get the same level of sweetness.
Ya thats a fair point!
That's a hard to believe claim. Do you have a source for it?
ya I did a lit review for my thesis a few years back, plenty of papers on microbes metabolizing these compounds, shouldn't be hard to find.
Minute Maid was awesome back in the 80s. Their fruit punch was the goat.
Welch's made a fruit punch soda that was next fucking level for me.
I think they changed the formula of their drinks. I haven't had any in a while, but it was pretty awful when I tried a couple of them a few years ago.
Check the label before you drink it, especially if you're watching your sugar intake for medical reasons.
Umm. How would checking the label help? If the drinks were labelled correctly, there would be no reason for a recall.
In this case, they're probably referring to the lot number. The affected numbers are FEB1725CNA and FEB1725CNB for Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade.
If I was told to just check the label, I'd probably also assume they meant the nutrition information. In that case you'd be correct that it wouldn't help you identify the affected drinks because they would be marked as having 0g sugar.
I agree. The best thing to do is avoid it entirely for now. I'm guessing there are other sugar-free lemonade options. Is Crystal Light still around? I used to like that one.
Coca-Cola has voluntarily recalled 13,152 cases of Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade because it discovered during an internal investigation that cans labeled as Zero Sugar contain full sugar.
Not Coke, it's the lemonade.
Minute Maid is owned by Coke. That's why the headline says Coke is pulling the drinks.
Headline could be written better, I warned my friend who's sister is a diabetic before realizing its just the lemonade
Now you know better than to stop reading after two seconds. If you spent three more seconds reading the summary your panicked warning would have been avoided.
If I had stopped reading after 2 seconds I wouldn't know it was the lemonade, something that should be put front and center because if I was a drinker of minute maid zero sugar lemonade and I saw "Coke recalls popular zero sugar drink", I wouldn't've bothered reading further.
Anyone downvoting is just shilling for shitty news practices.
This headline was intentionally misleading. At BEST it's meant to be vague to make you click into the article to find out what the drink is. Either way it's shitty.
I am very tempted to complain about the state of modern journalism, but maybe we don't have to expect better from "simpyrecipes.com".
Still, holy clickbait, Batman.
Could've recalled it for being Minute Maid too.
13k cases is like 30 seconds of production 😂
You aren’t far off. I’ve been in the Anheuser Busch plant in Cartersville GA about 20 years ago and I swear one line bottled 600 a minute…. Remember thinking how it took two of our plants to keep one of theirs going. You couldn’t see the bottles they moved so fast.
Sounds like a class action suit for any person that consumed the drinks while it was advertised as zero sugar
You'd have to prove you drank it before September 10, and it was from those specific batches.
Only if they suffered harm. I'm not sure that enough people will have suffered harm for it to be a class action.
My favorite zero calorie drink is water.
I feel bad for people's whose stomachs get upset when drinking water, they have to turn to solutions like sugar-free drinks whether they like it or not.
As @[email protected] astutely points out, it's a big deal for a lot of people with dietary issues, diabetics being the most prominent.
I have a hard time believing someone can be sick from water but artificial sweetener in water doesn't cause that. Has to be psychosomatic.
Like the broccoli woman?
No, water is really bad if you have unmedicated GERD. I am fairly certain that if I miss a day of meds, the swift intense heartburn is not psychosomatic. I don't know why, but anything with carbonation is much less intense.
it is psychosomatic, but can still be debilitating. i knew a Navy veteran who could not drink straight water at all because while in the Navy, he had to drink several gallons of the stuff every day. as soon as he was discharged (honorably), he found he couldn't have water without anything added to it simply because he had so much of it in the service. of course, he still has to drink water, so he carries around a bottle of flavoring
Good point. Serious oops.