Drink your drug

[Skybird]

In the US, since longer there is an energy drink named "Cocain".

In Germany, more and more federal states are prohibiting rivaling energy drink "Red Bull" and enforce that RB is being taken off the shelves. Chemical analysis showed that amongst it's ingredients are small amounts of cocain - not the drink of that name, but the drug.



Do you still live, or are you already flying?

[Jimbuna]

I have decided to produce and sell a strong alcoholic drink called "Responsibly"

That way everyone in the country can get sh!t faced drinking responsibly.

And all the other drinks makers will be advertising for me on their cans with the slogan "please drink responsibly"

Probably will piss off the government as well.

[Frame57]

I find nothing wrong with that at all. Small amounts of the derivitive from the Coca plant is actually quite beneficial. The natives use it medicinally and like all stimulants in excess can be harmfull and addictive.But what is not?

[XabbaRus]

Do you have a source for this Sky?

[Etienne]

Didn't Coca-Cola have some trace amount of coke in it until recently?

What's the big deal?

(Beside, I've seen people on coke and I've seen people on Red Bull. Not the same thing. At all.)

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Etienne

Didn't Coca-Cola have some trace amount of coke in it until recently?

1929 Coca-Cola was cocain free says Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Do you have a source for this Sky?

Various German newspapers. For example:
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/articl...en-Kokain.html
Currently, RB gets officially classified as a narcotic, and a violation to current food-law. However, the main issue about RB is not that it is considered to be a serious risk to health, but violating these laws. I personally consider the ammount of phosphate in Coca Cola as more health-threatening (and as a health risk: widely underestimated). But good for me that I hate the taste of RB - and most softdrinks - anyway, with the exception of Cola.

It's so bad that Coca Cola tastes so good. Both that ridiculous amount of white sugar and of phosphate make it a really bad thing. Why must the healthy things often be so boring in taste, more expensive and taking longer time to prepare, and the easy, cheap, tasty things often so bad for your health?

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Red Bull gives you wings.

Cocaine gives you:



Michelle Pfeiffer.



Wait..what?

[Highbury]

Originally Posted by Skybird

It's so bad that Coca Cola tastes so good. Both that ridiculous amount of white sugar and of phosphate make it a really bad thing. Why must the healthy things often be so boring in taste, more expensive and taking longer time to prepare, and the easy, cheap, tasty things often so bad for your health?

Coca Cola does not use white sugar, I worked at the Richmond, BC. CCE (Coca Cola Enterprises) plant for 14 years. Depending on the market it is produced for it contains Fructose or Isoglucose (called High-Fructose corn syrup in the US). Nowhere do they use Sucrose (white sugar) alone.

As for the Red Bull issue in Germany, here is an article in English for those that could not read the other one:
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090523-19457.html

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Red Bull gives you wings.

Cocaine gives you:



Michelle Pfeiffer.



Wait..what?

Gwad Michelle Pfeiffer was a babe back in the day, i seen her in a recent movie and she still looks good for her age.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Highbury

Coca Cola does not use white sugar, I worked at the Richmond, BC. CCE (Coca Cola Enterprises) plant for 14 years. Depending on the market it is produced for it contains Fructose or Isoglucose (called High-Fructose corn syrup in the US). Nowhere do they use Sucrose (white sugar) alone.

Yes, that turns it into a health drink!

[Skybird]

Fructose causes a slower rise of blood sugar, but regarding body fatness it is as critical as Saccharose, since it affects the body'S carbohydrate metabolsim for the negative, and gets transformed into fat even faster than Saccharose. Also, a significant part of the population cannot absorb fructose, or only insufficently, so that it gets accumulated in the intestine where it increases/feeds germ growth, which then has negative conseqeunces for the functionality and sensitivity of the immune-system.

Therefore, Fructose is demanded to be banned from public selling, activists even want it to be no longer classified as a type of food. The wide-spread belief that it is the "better sugar" and serves nice as a sugar-surrogate for diabetics, is wrong. Maybe that is becasue many people mix the meaning of fructose, glucose, sucrose wildly and do not really know the different meanings (I struggle myself, too).

Isoglucose is familiar to socalled invert sugar, that is saccharose that got split into glucose and fructose.

It'S running around words, even if there are differences: that does not make it any less damaging to health. I wish it would, but it doesn't.

Lesson learned: have soft drinks rarely only. I have maybe one bottle of Coca Cola Zero (sweetener) per month, maybe even less. But when I have, I enjoy it.

Originally Posted by Skybird

Lesson learned: have soft drinks rarely only. I have maybe one bottle of Coca Cola Zero (sweetener) per month, maybe even less. But when I have, I enjoy it.

Drinking large amounts of basically anything is detrimental to your health, hell drink enough water and you'll keel over.

[Frame57]

I know quite a few doctors in my profession as well as having gone through this. Kidney stones....Oh are they fun...Anyway, it appears that the carmel coloring in many products including colas cause kidney stones. Another reason to avoid cokes and pepsis if one has a disposition to that.

[talesofvalor]

I've also seen a drink called "Swiss Canabis".