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Take that, red bull bonces!!!

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[–] Acklavidian@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ReconciliationTime22128@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Acklavidian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That was kinda the ceiling seemed like everyone was trying to avoid. So a lot of 48 and 49. But all might as well have been surge to me. ...Surge had 56g a can if I recall.

[–] anistorian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Nah it’s just the total amount of the calories that is from suger. It only … hmm.. only has 26g of sugars in it.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just looked at the Mexican coke I just finished drinking 😭 39g sugar…

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

When you visualize it like this, it makes you think twice about grabbing that sugary beverage. Having said that, I still like a red bull here and there, and sugar free just ain't the same.

Edit removed slop, changed pic

[–] ReconciliationTime22128@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Um… excuse me, but isn’t Mountain Dew that pop drink in america? Why tf is Frappuccino labeled as Mountain Dew?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I didn't notice that. Probably slop. Here's a better image

[–] anistorian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here’s one of the total amount of sugar in a Monster Zero Sugar.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They use a DNA damage agent instead. Better?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260912220107.htm

And we wonder why colon cancer is exploding under 30.

[–] anistorian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting read. Thank you. But the article didn’t really conclude anything specific about the genotoxicity of the sweetener outside direct cell exposure to a related chemical.

[–] synestia@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You can bet your colon that obesity will kill you before the cancer. Unless the cancer caused by obesity kills your first.

Fair enough, although it would be better with numerical measurements

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm, according to this graphic 7 == 9 == 10 > 14. I see LLMs still can't do math

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I fucking hate the post AI Internet. I used to be able to find the relevant image when I searched it up, not AI garbage.

That’s not even the worst thing: his first image that he posted had a Frappuccino labelled as ‘mountain dew’ not a joke

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Makes me wonder which ones taste good if you turn the sugar into ethanol. Apple juice does, what about others?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Worry not, some Internet guy did it with mountain dew.

https://youtube.com/shorts/yz6UeCmc2XA

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Mexican coke

Identical to any other coke.

[–] obamaspajamas@fedinsfw.app 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

@Acklavidian@lemmy.world

t1 diabetic here. I get the grind of trying to find low/no/alt sugar products. You always hear about how bad the usa diet is. But it's another thing to travel around world for alt food cultures, and/or even look directly at the numbers. Basically everything has some form of sweetener in it. I don't get it.