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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

So, I can keep drinking my beloved zero mountain dew?

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There are other things in that which are bad for you.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago
[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

I would if I weren’t going to bed. Feel free to ignore me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago

It's pretty interesting how many walls of text you'll write to defend an unnecessary additive but not to prove you should just drink water

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Another straw man.

straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.[1]One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition.[2][3] Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects.[4]

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

You should switch to Diet Baja Blast. It’s healthier because it’s tastier or something.

Green means healthy!

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The "zero" beverages are usually sweetened with Sucrolose primarily. Not Aspertame. Though I've seen some with primarily Sucrolose and also Aspertame as a secondary ingredient.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Mountain dew has aspartame

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 7 months ago

The original selling point was partly that it wasn't aspartame, but I think that's changing to the mixture since some people react poorly to sucrolose.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The original selling point was partly that it wasn’t aspartame,

Was it? I thought it was just an angle to use a better tasting sweetener than Aspertame. Sucrolose tastes much closer to sugar than Aspertame does, probably because Sucrolose's chemical structure is very close to sucrose.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah some of the Diet brands were running as "aspartame free" when it was gaining popularity

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