Headline could be written better, I warned my friend who's sister is a diabetic before realizing its just the lemonade

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.

"simpy" recipes are something else entirely.

I'm super fuckin curious now. As a type 1 diabetes since 12y/o, before the 2010's the only readily available 0 sugar drink options were water and diet pop. So for idk 20 years I was raised on DP giggety

Fast forward to the first time I got coke zero from a restaurant when it first came out. I was 100% positive they were putting sugar in it and have not wavered from that unfounded conspiracy theory.

Even more so after every brand of pop, juice, energy drink after that 2010ish decade had its own zero sugar options on the market. Nothing comes even close to the flavor in coke zero. In the absolute slimmest chance this has been a day 1 fuckup they are just catching I still feel like it could be a very small amount cuz that all it takes to give body to a zero sugar drink.

My source for this belief can be found in drinks like Gatorade G2 vs GZero, or new Prime energy drinks I see everywhere now, or another good one is the oj brands who offer half the sugar options of OJ.

You drink a zero sugar drink back to back with any of these example and you will totally get what I'm saying about the empty taste of zero sugar vs the fuller less chemically tasting "low" not "zero" options lisred above.

Then look at the total carbs of the light sugar options to the full flavor all the sugar options and the one with the highest amount of sugar should be the OJ and even that is only 50% of the full flavored OJ.

Normal energy drink: 35-50g of carms compared to 6g of carbs in prime. Gatorade: 36g vs G2 is i wanna say 12ga or go further with Gatorade Fit that has a splash of juice and that is a mere 4g of carbs.

So back to coke zero. It could only take a couple grams per can to get that real coke taste in coke zero. Yes it could cause most diabetics to raise an eyebrow as to why they're sugar readings after a coke zero are slightly higher but the reality of it is you would haven't be on the strictest regiment diet of the same exact amount of portions, recipes and execute your insulin delivery efficiency to perfection rotating sites so the same % of injected insulin is retained for every meal and even then the difference from adding a can of coke zero with 4-8g of carb is barely going to move the needle.

For most diabetic insulin regiments they start you off on a scale of 1unit of insulin per every 12-15g of carbs consumed depending on the person's size, age etc. Way back when they first trained me I was instructed to round to the nearest 5 and take the closest dose of insulin to match. So a single can isn't ever going to ruin someone's night cuz it isnt even enought carbs to round up to take 1 unit on insulin for.

Still doesn't make me any less interested if my bat shit crazy conspiracy theory is actually true. Lol

I never even mentioned alerting individual customers. The publication date on the story is TODAY. We can certainly do better than that.

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

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

Same, but Coca-Cola releases way more dopamine in my starving brain

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.