New Diet Coke!

[bloodline]

Coca-Cola have finally realised that Diet Coke has a nasty after taste, you know that cross between phosphoric acid and a rusty nail that aspartame has... Anyway the great news is that later this year Diet Coke will be avaialbe that uses sucralose rather than aspartame.

WooHoo... :-D

Expect my Local Sainsbury's be sold out within hours ;-)

[whabang]

I always thought it tasted more like dish-water... :-)

Doesn't matter anyway; everyone knows that Pepsi is far better!

[bloodline]

whabang wrote:
I always thought it tasted more like dish-water... :-)

Doesn't matter anyway; everyone knows that Pepsi is far better!

:lol:

I could never drink Pepsi due to the aspartame taste... That's why I've had to stick with regular coke.

[X-ray]

@ Bloodline

The diet Coke lime is quite good. You tried that?

[bloodline]

X-ray wrote:
@ Bloodline

The diet Coke lime is quite good. You tried that?

Yeah, I'm not keen on lime though :-/

[Karlos]

You wouldn't see me touching sucralose with a barge pole.

There's no way I'm freely ingesting chlorinated sugars. Sure, there's presently no evidence to suggest that your metabolic system can grab hold of it since the chlorine atoms have replaced the main hydroxy attachment points. Still, give it a while to become established and watch the next shock discovery that an hitherto unknown (which may only affect some) process in the digestive system is able to partially metabolise it, perhaps only in very small amounts.

However, therein lies the problem. It only does take very small amounts of chorinated carbon radicals to do an extensive amount of permanent damage.

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
You wouldn't see me touching sucralose with a barge pole.

There's no way I'm freely ingesting chlorinated sugars. Sure, there's presently no evidence to suggest that your metabolic system can grab hold of it since the chlorine atoms have replaced the main hydroxy attachment points. Still, give it a while to become established and watch the next shock discovery that an hitherto unknown (which may only affect some) process in the digestive system is able to partially metabolise it, perhaps only in very small amounts.

However, therein lies the problem. It only does take very small amounts of chorinated carbon radicals to do an extensive amount of permanent damage.

They testest this stuff for 26 years before it was approved for human consumption... that includes 15 years of testing on the population of Cananda :lol:

I'm pretty confident that it's safe... next you'll be telling me that you don't trust Teflon coated cookware?

[Karlos]

They've tested other substances a lot longer than that and discovered they were dangerous.

Just have ordinary sugar, and have a sensible amount.

Coke isn't exactly good for you no matter what they sweeten it with anyway :lol:

I was permanently put off by seeing what a leaky consignment of the concentrate did to the docks at my old town.

2 fire crews and a specialist hazmat team had to deal with it. That still didn't prevent it eating through reinforced concrete.

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
They've tested other substances a lot longer than that and discovered they were dangerous.

Which ones? I want names, dates... and did you love her...?

[Karlos]

How about nitrite salts as a preservative for meats etc? Used for centuries.

Discovered in the last 10 years or so to be responsible for the production of nitrosamines during normal cooking and especially frying. These compounds are highly carcinogenic, but alas there is no way of knowing how many cancers have been caused or partially caused by this since nobody has ever considered any link between eating cooked meats and carcinogens from the above process. That doesn't mean it didn't contribute to some or even all of those cases.

[Vincent]

Coke?

Pepsi?

Wimps :-P

Irn-Bru is the drink :-P

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Vincent wrote:
Coke?

Pepsi?

Wimps :-P

Indeed.
Commercial cattle.

[Vincent]

:lol:

By the way - Irn-Bru click on It's Phenomenal ;-)

Oh yeah, Flash required unfortunately.

[X-ray]

Dammit, Vince, that's another week I'll have that tune in my head :-P

You got me good there.

[Vincent]

X-ray wrote:
Dammit, Vince, that's another week I'll have that tune in my head :-P

:lol:

:-D