06-02-2006, 12:10 PM
06-02-2006, 12:25 PM
Pauric Wrote:
Coke sucks, you suck, everyone sucks apart from me, everyone elses opinion is wrong too.
Trolls need to apply in writing. Please pick up an application form at the office.
Diet cherry coke is the most evil drink ever.
06-02-2006, 01:30 PM
Vanilla coke is horrible (very biased due to vanilla allergy though).
06-02-2006, 04:08 PM
Any soft drink with the word "diet" on the can or bottle usually tastes absolutely foul because of the aspartame sweetener used in them. The flavoured variants of coca cola don't taste too bad though
In short, "diet" = yuk
In short, "diet" = yuk
mel Wrote:
Can anyone actually taste the difference between coke and pepsi? because i cant.
nor can I Mel
06-03-2006, 02:20 AM
I don't like soda; it make my teeth feel like they are dissolving.
06-19-2006, 08:52 PM
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Irn-Bru yet. :gag:
06-21-2006, 08:00 PM
couldbecousin Wrote:
Sjöjungfru Wrote:
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Irn-Bru yet. :gag:
I've never heard of it! :shock: Where is it sold? And what does it taste like?
Irn-Bru is sold in the UK, is orange in colour, and has a taste that I find pleasent but can't describe
06-21-2006, 09:11 PM
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn_Bru, Irn-Bru is available in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, Canada, much of Europe and in some parts of Australia and Singapore.
As for its taste and appearance, the thing it most closely resembles IMO is a medicine I had to take a lot for an embarrassing medical condition when I was much younger. Sickly sweet with a bitter aftertaste.
Check out the list of ingredients on the Wikipedia page! It makes Sunny Delight look like an Innocent smoothie.
As for its taste and appearance, the thing it most closely resembles IMO is a medicine I had to take a lot for an embarrassing medical condition when I was much younger. Sickly sweet with a bitter aftertaste.
Check out the list of ingredients on the Wikipedia page! It makes Sunny Delight look like an Innocent smoothie.
06-25-2006, 07:58 PM
FUBAR Wrote:
violet_yoshi Wrote:
Battery Gingered? What the heck is that drink? I would seriously doubt that selling a drink with battery in the title, is a good marketing campaign.
This is the junk. It's like any energy drink. "Gingered" version is supposed to taste better but in my opinion it resembles urine, or at least what I would imagine urine taste like. :oops:
RED BULL!!!!!!!
Energy drinks rarely taste bad
06-25-2006, 11:12 PM
Sjöjungfru Wrote:
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn_Bru, Irn-Bru is available in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, Canada, much of Europe and in some parts of Australia and Singapore.
As for its taste and appearance, the thing it most closely resembles IMO is a medicine I had to take a lot for an embarrassing medical condition when I was much younger. Sickly sweet with a bitter aftertaste.
Check out the list of ingredients on the Wikipedia page! It makes Sunny Delight look like an Innocent smoothie.
As for its taste and appearance, the thing it most closely resembles IMO is a medicine I had to take a lot for an embarrassing medical condition when I was much younger. Sickly sweet with a bitter aftertaste.
Check out the list of ingredients on the Wikipedia page! It makes Sunny Delight look like an Innocent smoothie.
Hmmmm, I wondered why I like it so much :lol: (I hardly ever drink it at the moment, maybe I should drink more :grin: )
Gareth Wrote:
RED BULL!!!!!!!
Energy drinks rarely taste bad
Energy drinks rarely taste bad
Maybe I should start drinking Red Bull again too :grin:
09-03-2006, 07:05 PM
Funny that no-one has mentioned Dasani until now!
11-07-2006, 05:03 PM
Dr. Dazzle is also pretty bad. It's a generic-ish Dr. Pepper and I thought I was allergic to it until recently. Now I just tihnk it tastes like medicine, but not as much so as strawberry Cool Whip.
05-23-2008, 09:59 AM
From the Independent on Sunday's 'City Diary' of 20 April...
French try to clip Red Bull's wings
RED BULL might give you wings but it doesn't get you across the Channel. The energy drink has sold 3.6 billion cans in 144 countries – but not France. There, the government has waged a 12-year campaign to keep out all imports as the drink contains taurene, a banned stimulant. Red Bull has got round this by replacing the taurene with arginine. However, the French OFT now claims the company is perpetuating a "fraud" by selling something in the same packaging as in the rest of the EU but with different contents. And you thought regulators were stupid!
French try to clip Red Bull's wings
RED BULL might give you wings but it doesn't get you across the Channel. The energy drink has sold 3.6 billion cans in 144 countries – but not France. There, the government has waged a 12-year campaign to keep out all imports as the drink contains taurene, a banned stimulant. Red Bull has got round this by replacing the taurene with arginine. However, the French OFT now claims the company is perpetuating a "fraud" by selling something in the same packaging as in the rest of the EU but with different contents. And you thought regulators were stupid!
05-27-2008, 05:20 PM
Coca-Cola to phase out use of controversial additive after DNA damage claim
Soft-drink giant to do away with sodium benzoate 'where technically possible', in the wake of IoS story that highlighted the potential dangers
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Independent on Sunday, 25 May 2008
Coca-Cola, the world's biggest soft drinks company, is phasing out a controversial additive that may cause hyperactivity and DNA damage. By August, no cans of Diet Coke should contain the preservative sodium benzoate.
Coca-Cola wants to remove E211 (sodium benzoate) from other products where possible. But the company said there were no satisfactory alternatives yet for its high-acid drinks Fanta and Dr Pepper. The substance also remains in rival drinks such as Irn-Bru, Pepsi Max and Lucozade.
Sodium benzoate occurs naturally in some fruits but is used in far higher concentrations to stop fizzy drinks from going mouldy. In an Independent on Sunday exclusive last May, Professor Peter Piper, a chemistry expert at Sheffield University, warned that it could switch off cellular power in yeast and might do similar damage in humans. He called for the Food Standards Agency to fund research into the subject.
Sodium benzoate was also one of seven E-numbers found to worsen hyperactivity in a study by Southampton University. If combined with vitamin A, sodium benzoate can form a potentially carcinogenic substance, benzene.
Coca-Cola said it had removed sodium benzoate from Diet Coke production in January. The company said: "We are looking to phase out the use of sodium benzoate where technically possible." It said that it had not carried out any research into the preservative.
In response to our story, the Food Standards Agency referred Professor Piper's concerns to the Committee on Mutagenicity. In a newly published opinion, the committee dismissed calls for further research into Professor Piper's findings.
It pointed to studies on rodents that showed no harm from sodium benzoate and said that human cells were stronger than yeast cells.
Professor Piper rebuffed the statement, saying the rodent tests had been done decades before more sophisticated DNA testing was developed, and suggested that the committee lacked expertise in the area. "I regard that statement as a whitewash," he said.
Last month, the FSA demanded a ban on the six food colours in the Southampton University study, but not on sodium benzoate. It added that sodium benzoate was widely used in the soft drinks industry.
"Obviously the soft drinks industry is very powerful and they don't want to upset anyone there," said Professor Piper. Coca-Cola contacted him to discuss his research after the IoS published its story last year.
Soft-drink giant to do away with sodium benzoate 'where technically possible', in the wake of IoS story that highlighted the potential dangers
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Independent on Sunday, 25 May 2008
Coca-Cola, the world's biggest soft drinks company, is phasing out a controversial additive that may cause hyperactivity and DNA damage. By August, no cans of Diet Coke should contain the preservative sodium benzoate.
Coca-Cola wants to remove E211 (sodium benzoate) from other products where possible. But the company said there were no satisfactory alternatives yet for its high-acid drinks Fanta and Dr Pepper. The substance also remains in rival drinks such as Irn-Bru, Pepsi Max and Lucozade.
Sodium benzoate occurs naturally in some fruits but is used in far higher concentrations to stop fizzy drinks from going mouldy. In an Independent on Sunday exclusive last May, Professor Peter Piper, a chemistry expert at Sheffield University, warned that it could switch off cellular power in yeast and might do similar damage in humans. He called for the Food Standards Agency to fund research into the subject.
Sodium benzoate was also one of seven E-numbers found to worsen hyperactivity in a study by Southampton University. If combined with vitamin A, sodium benzoate can form a potentially carcinogenic substance, benzene.
Coca-Cola said it had removed sodium benzoate from Diet Coke production in January. The company said: "We are looking to phase out the use of sodium benzoate where technically possible." It said that it had not carried out any research into the preservative.
In response to our story, the Food Standards Agency referred Professor Piper's concerns to the Committee on Mutagenicity. In a newly published opinion, the committee dismissed calls for further research into Professor Piper's findings.
It pointed to studies on rodents that showed no harm from sodium benzoate and said that human cells were stronger than yeast cells.
Professor Piper rebuffed the statement, saying the rodent tests had been done decades before more sophisticated DNA testing was developed, and suggested that the committee lacked expertise in the area. "I regard that statement as a whitewash," he said.
Last month, the FSA demanded a ban on the six food colours in the Southampton University study, but not on sodium benzoate. It added that sodium benzoate was widely used in the soft drinks industry.
"Obviously the soft drinks industry is very powerful and they don't want to upset anyone there," said Professor Piper. Coca-Cola contacted him to discuss his research after the IoS published its story last year.
09-22-2008, 10:18 PM
Red Bull: it promises energy, but doesn't mention sticky blood...
Independent on Sunday, 17 August 2008
Last year 3.5 billion cans of Red Bull were sold in 143 countries
Australian researchers have found that the sugar-free version of Red Bull may increase the danger of blood clots, and creates "sticky" blood, raising the risk of heart attack or stroke. How this affects the sales of Red Bull – last year 3.5 billion cans were sold in 143 countries – is yet to be seen.
* In 1982 the jet-lagged marketing director of an Austrian toothpaste company tasted Krating Daeng, a Thai energy drink. He saw the potential for a product to fight mental and physical exhaustion.
* With a few tweaks to the recipe, Red Bull was launched in Austria in 1987.
* It's named after taurine, the organic acid it contains that was first isolated in a bull.
* In early marketing tests half the tasters declared it disgusting. For years Austrian bars did not sell it, regarding it as medicinal.
* It was launched in the US and Europe in 1997; but it is still prohibited as a soft drink in Norway, Uruguay, Denmark and Iceland.
* The formula contains the same amount of caffeine as a cup of filter coffee, around 80mg. It's meant to taste of mixed berries, but some liken it to sweet cough mixture.
* A variety of celebrities have been associated with the brand, including Britney Spears and Madonna, but these were dubious endorsements: Britney had a can with her when she shaved her head last year. Madonna was quoted in 2006 as saying: "Sometimes I drink Red Bull. That's only when I'm desperate... when I need some serious artificial stimulation."
* When a teenager in Darlington was taken to hospital in February with heart palpitations after consuming eight cans, a Red Bull spokesman recommended only drinking one to two cans per day, for "optimum effect".
* Never missing a product placement trick, the Red Bull name is attached to sporting teams around the world and the now well-known Flugtag.
* The sugar-free version of the drink was launched in 2003, and this year, Red Bull diversified with Simply Cola, which claims to be "strong and natural" with no chemicals. After the findings of this new research, Red Bull may need all the natural credentials it can get.
Independent on Sunday, 17 August 2008
Last year 3.5 billion cans of Red Bull were sold in 143 countries
Australian researchers have found that the sugar-free version of Red Bull may increase the danger of blood clots, and creates "sticky" blood, raising the risk of heart attack or stroke. How this affects the sales of Red Bull – last year 3.5 billion cans were sold in 143 countries – is yet to be seen.
* In 1982 the jet-lagged marketing director of an Austrian toothpaste company tasted Krating Daeng, a Thai energy drink. He saw the potential for a product to fight mental and physical exhaustion.
* With a few tweaks to the recipe, Red Bull was launched in Austria in 1987.
* It's named after taurine, the organic acid it contains that was first isolated in a bull.
* In early marketing tests half the tasters declared it disgusting. For years Austrian bars did not sell it, regarding it as medicinal.
* It was launched in the US and Europe in 1997; but it is still prohibited as a soft drink in Norway, Uruguay, Denmark and Iceland.
* The formula contains the same amount of caffeine as a cup of filter coffee, around 80mg. It's meant to taste of mixed berries, but some liken it to sweet cough mixture.
* A variety of celebrities have been associated with the brand, including Britney Spears and Madonna, but these were dubious endorsements: Britney had a can with her when she shaved her head last year. Madonna was quoted in 2006 as saying: "Sometimes I drink Red Bull. That's only when I'm desperate... when I need some serious artificial stimulation."
* When a teenager in Darlington was taken to hospital in February with heart palpitations after consuming eight cans, a Red Bull spokesman recommended only drinking one to two cans per day, for "optimum effect".
* Never missing a product placement trick, the Red Bull name is attached to sporting teams around the world and the now well-known Flugtag.
* The sugar-free version of the drink was launched in 2003, and this year, Red Bull diversified with Simply Cola, which claims to be "strong and natural" with no chemicals. After the findings of this new research, Red Bull may need all the natural credentials it can get.