The Top 3. 2 Soda Brands—Ranked. Soda is totally harmless, and you’re not drinking enough of it. At least, that’s what Coca- Cola wants you to think. To convince you, it’s been lobbying doctors to stop saying bad stuff about its products—like the fact that soda consumption is linked to weight gain, diabetes and heart attacks. The company pours tens of millions into medical conferences and research, according to a recent report in the New York Times. And in a recent letter to the USDA, the Sugar Association even challenged the notion that added sugar causes cavities. But the ruse isn’t working. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, when we launched Eat This, Not That! Thanks to our own awareness campaign, and those of others to raise awareness of liquid sugar, that number had fallen to just 5. Discover these Amazing Things That Happen To Your Body When You Give Up Soda.) So to keep us well- carbonated, soda manufacturers are now experimenting with ever more exotic flavors. In fact, Pepsi. Co is rolling out artisanal soda fountains; its new line, called Stubborn Soda, is already delivering exotic flavors like agave vanilla cream and black cherry with tarragon to folks in California, Florida and Colorado. But what’s really in your soda? Eat This, Not That! ![]() First, we ordered them by calories, carbs and sugar. Then, we examined each can’s ingredients and gave demerits to sodas with more chemicals and additives than those that were nutritionally similar. Read on to discover the worst soda in America—and the best of the worst. Detailed calorie and nutritional information for all types of Beverages. Just a few years ago, you could pull up to the Arby's window, order a grilled chicken sandwich, and be pretty sure you were keeping lunch under 500 calories. File photo of Travis Kalanick, who just announced that he was stepped down as CEO of Uber (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch) News broke overnight. The Iowa State Fair boasts nearly 200 food stands and more than 50 items available on-a-stick. Just take a look at what yummy foods are at the Fair! ![]() ![]() And lose weight—in just one week!—with these 5. Best Ways to Speed Up Your Metabolism! REGULAR SODA1. 2 oz, 1. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Natural Flavors, Tartaric Acid, Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate (to Protect Taste), Citric Acid, Red 4. Blue 1. Liquefy a bag of Skittles and you’d still have to add 6 grams of sugar to equal the sweetness of this can of corn syrup, citric acid and artificial colors. In fact, that bag of Skittles has the same exact ingredients, including Red 4. Canadian researchers found to be contaminated with known carcinogens. Even without its unsettling origin story—the Coca- Cola company created Fanta to profit in Germany, when Nazis forbid the importation of USA- made Coke—this would still be the absolute worst soda in America! Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate, Caramel Color, Red 4. Blue 1. 12 fl oz, 1. With more sugar than seven Chewy Chips Ahoy cookies, Stewart's Black Cherry would be a “Not That!” because of the sweetness alone—it’s the most caloric on this list. And, like many of the soda on this list, it also contains caramel coloring. This additive wouldn't be dangerous if you made it the old- fashioned way—with water and sugar, on top of a stove. But the food industry follows a different recipe: They treat sugar with ammonia, which can produce some nasty carcinogens. A Center for Science in the Public Interest report asserted that the high levels of caramel color found in soda account for roughly 1. U. S. Instead, keep the soda sipping to a minimum and read these 5. Best Eat This, Not That! Tips For Weight Loss! Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Cherry And Other Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), and Artificial Color (Red 4. With just one gram of sugar less that Stewart’s Black Cherry, Dr. ![]()
![]() Brown’s Black Cherry would horrify most doctors—and not just because of the sugar. Like Stewart's—and many of the colored sodas here—this one has the artificial color Red 4. Don’t get down with Brown. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Natural and Artificial Flavors, Caramel Color, Citric Acid, Flavored with Vanilla Extract, Caffeine. A& W traffics heavily in the nostalgia of the roadside restaurant—the company created the nation’s first chain of them in 1. But their cream soda is a car crash of HFCS and artificial colors and flavors. This is not your grandparent’s soda, in the worst way possible. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Sodium Benzoate (Preserves Freshness), Citric Acid, Caramel Color, Calcium Disodium EDTA (to protect flavor)Speaking of cream, you’d have go down 1. Redi- Whip to equal the calorie count of Mug Cream Soda (distributed by Pepsi)—and would still need to eat 1. Hershey’s Kisses on top of that to equal the sugar count. ![]() Put the can down—and lose up to 1. Bad Habits That Lead to a Fat Belly! Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Caramel Color, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Natural and Artificial Flavors. You gotta love that ingredients list: This American classic might have sugar and HFCS. Throw in two scoops of vanilla ice cream to make a Root Beer float and you have more than two day’s worth of sugar in one chilled mug. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Concentrated Orange Juice, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor, Sodium Benzoate (Preserves Freshness), Caffeine, Sodium Citrate, Erythorbic Acid (Preserves Freshness), Gum Arabic, Calcium Disodium EDTA (To Protect Flavor), Brominated Vegetable Oil, Yellow 5. There's flame retardant in your Mountain Dew. That soda with the lime- green hue (and other citrus- flavored bubbly pops) won't keep your insides fireproof, but it does contain brominated vegetable oil, a patented flame retardant for plastics that has been banned in foods throughout Europe and in Japan. Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, which acts as an emulsifier in citrus- flavored soda drinks, is found in about 1. U. S. Dudes, to truly get a six- pack, don’t do the Dew and instead scroll through this comprehensive list of 3. Foods That Uncover Your Abs! Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Citric Acid, Caramel Color. With more calories than a Mountain Dew (though with less artificial colors, thus its better ranking), this Cream would make even Prince blush. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Gum Acacia, Citric Acid, Caffeine Free. You know when you add some Mentos to a two- liter Diet Coke and the whole thing explodes? Despite it’s weird name, is probably this most natural ingredient in this sugar juice. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Maltodextrin, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors, Orange Juice Concentrate, Potassium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Potassium Citrate, Caffeine, Calcium Disodium Edta (To Protect Taste), Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Carob Bean Gum, Blue 1. It’s not uncommon for “sodium and potassium benzoate are added to some diet soft drinks and fruit drinks,” Leslie Bonci, R. D. Unfortunately—especially because Surge contains OJ—. Instead, get your surge—and a flat belly—from The 2. Best- Ever Proteins! Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Concentrated Orange Juice, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors, Sodium Benzoate And Edta (To Protect Taste), Potassium Citrate, Caffeine, Yellow 5, Carob Bean Gum. In addition to sky high sugar and calorie counts, this citrus soda is laced with the preservative sodium benzoate. Though studies show that when consumed in small amounts the chemical poses no risk, when combined with vitamin C (as it is in Mello- Yello) it can form benzene, a cancer- causing substance. Don’t let your Yello Mello. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Modified Corn Starch, Natural Flavors, Caffeine, Ester Gum, Yellow 6, Red 4. What do you get when you combine carbonated water with High Fructose Corn Syrup and a host of hard- to- pronounce chemicals? This citrus- inspired sip. It gets its alluring orange color from Yellow 5 and Red 4. A Journal of Pediatrics study linked Yellow 5 to hyperactivity in children and Canadian researchers found Red 4. And speaking of scary chemicals, be sure to avoid these 8 Ingredients You Never Want to See on Your Nutrition Label. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Sodium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Citric Acid,Caffeine, Artificial And Natural Flavors, Acacia. Barq’s Root Beer falls toward the middle of the pack in terms of carbs, sugar and has a slightly less horrifying chemical profile than its competition. It’s better than A+W Root Beer but slightly worse than Mug. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Natural Flavors, Modified Food Starch, Sodium Polyphosphates, Glycerol Ester Of Rosin, Yellow 6, Red 4. I don’t know about you, but after a long day of hard work and play, I like to sit back and relax and crack open a can of Glycerol Ester Of Rosin. The wood resin is added to many fruit sodas to help the fruit- flavored oils mix better with the water. While it’s not necessarily harmful, let us repeat: you’re drinking oil and water, sold to you by Coke. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Acacia Gum, Natural Flavors, Ester Gum, Yellow 6, Brominated Soybean Oil, Red 4. Orange Crush has the same nutritionals as our next soda, Mug’s Root Beer, but we’re docking it points for the Brominated Soybean Oil, which, as we’ve said, is crushing stuff. Instead, crush your workout—and get the flay belly you deserve—with these 2. Amazing Weight- Loss Tips From Shaun T! Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Sodium Benzoate (preserves freshness), Citric Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Modified Food Starch, Calcium Disodium EDTA (to protect flavor), Quillaia Extract. Quillaia extract? The best (and worst) part of researching these sodas in the Eat This, Not That! Food Lab is coming across the weird ingredients soda manufacturers (in this case, Pepsi) add to their concoctions. People Who Could Replace Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. News broke overnight that embattled Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is stepping down. Kalanick will still serve on the company’s board, but the company needs a new CEO. And it needs one quickly, if it wants to calm down some nervous investors. People on Twitter are already speculating about who might be the best replacement for Kalanick. Some think an executive like recently departed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would be a good choice, while others aren’t so sure. One thing that makes it all much more complicated is that Kalanick will reportedly help oversee the selection of his replacement. We’ve done a round- up of the twelve most likely replacements, culled from extensive internet research. If it’s not one of these folks, the company could be in serious trouble moving forward. Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo. Robert L. Hulseman, deceased inventor of the Solo Cup. Kravis Talanick, mysterious mustachioed stranger who says he’s new to town but really seems to understand the Uber culture quite well. A somehow moist pile of USB thumb drives containing nothing but pirated copies of the movie Boiler Room. Various independent contractors who are summoned through a smartphone app for 5- minute stints as CEO and paid less than minimum wage. Secret Uber sauce, the thing Travis Kalanick told me in 2. A Camelbak filled with old tapioca pudding. Whatever IRS agent finally figures out that independent contractor laws weren’t intended for this shit. A beer keg wearing an Arizona State t- shirt that also has an advanced degree from Arizona State. Elon Musk, because he doesn’t seem like he has enough to do right now. Travis Kalanick, fuck it the company’s problems are systemic and aren’t going to change with just a new CEO.
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