Coke Zero - Is it better than normal fizzy drinks?

Roger_Moore_007

stephen77 wrote: »

Quality - how are you defining quality?

As i have said earlier the supermarkets have cleaned up there label decs a few years ago. Thus 99% are not pumped with chemicals these days to prolong life.

Depends on who is right regarding dietary advice to wether products are healthy or not. My personally feeling is that low fat is not the best way to go. Lots of people may disagree with me on this.
There have been quite a few healthy ranges of products going into supermarkets over the last fews year. Super markets want them to sell, up the customer to purchase them.

You seem to be very easily led by the food companies, I can see that there is not much point in explaining the finer points of why the quality of food is not as high as it should be (not that I'm an expert anyway).

I'm not sure how you work out that 99% of food is not pumped with chemicals to prolong it's shelf life? It clearly is, the same way that many fruit and vegetables are sprayed with pesticides to keep them for longer despite the fact that the pesticides are potentially damaging. Something that is organic will nearly always have a shorter shelf life than something that is mass produced, because organic products don't have the same chemicals in most cases.

stephen77

Roger_Moore_007 wrote: »

You seem to be very easily led by the food companies, I can see that there is not much point in explaining the finer points of why the quality of food is not as high as it should be (not that I'm an expert anyway).

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Please explain your definition of quality as I may agree as down sizing, cheaper cuts of meat etc may be used more as recission and to avoid price increases.
However on the other hand - more british meats used, more welfare standards, more free range egg, less addatives added etc.

This is why I am asking your opinion of quality as so many different attributes to consider.

stephen77

Roger_Moore_007 wrote: »

I'm not sure how you work out that 99% of food is not pumped with chemicals to prolong it's shelf life? It clearly is, the same way that many fruit and vegetables are sprayed with pesticides to keep them for longer despite the fact that the pesticides are potentially damaging. Something that is organic will nearly always have a shorter shelf life than something that is mass produced, because organic products don't have the same chemicals in most cases.

Are we talking about farmers and pesticides now? or food manufacturer adding addatives when in their factories?

If we are talking about food at the manufacturing stage. Food especially super market own label is far cleaner ingredient dec than it was a few years ago.

DCFC79

iammumtoone wrote: »

Has anyone ever put dirty coins in a dish with coke and left them? The coins will get clean! A good tip is to poor a can of coke down the toilet overnight it will be clean in the morning! If coke does this, what does it do to your insides?

Same with a steak apparently, the steak will just be no more if its put into some coke.

stephen77

DCFC79 wrote: »

Same with a steak apparently, the steak will just be no more if its put into some coke.

Nigelle has cooked joints in coke. I think she said it will help tenderise but will also give sweetness.

Lemon juice is natural food ingredient used in organic products to help with shelf life. I guess if you leave a variety of object in lemon juice the same thing will happen as leaving it in coke.

DCFC79

stephen77 wrote: »

Nigelle has cooked joints in coke. I think she said it will help tenderise but will also give sweetness.

Lemon juice is natural food ingredient used in organic products to help with shelf life. I guess if you leave a variety of object in lemon juice the same thing will happen as leaving it in coke.

Yes I'd seen that, I was also told the cola would do some damage to a piece of steak but looks like that was wrong.

Sue27_2

Ham cooked in full fat coke (with lots of cloves) is one of my favourite recipes. Been cooking it for years. Well worth a try...

stephen77

DCFC79 wrote: »

Yes I'd seen that, I was also told the cola would do some damage to a piece of steak but looks like that was wrong.

you can over tenderise your joint so it goes to mushy as well.

Roger_Moore_007

Here is a brief description of what Coke does to the human body when you drink it.


In the first 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor, allowing you to keep it down.

20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (And there’s plenty of that at this particular moment.)

40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate; your blood pressure rises; as a response, your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked, preventing drowsiness.

45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production, stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

> 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium, and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.

> 60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium, and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolytes, and water.

> 60 minutes: As the rave inside you dies down, you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, !!!!ed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like hydrating your system, or building strong bones and teeth.

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) Want to know what happens after that? Check out what happens to your body after you drink a coke, every day for a long time.

Coke itself isn’t the enemy here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid, which are found in almost all sodas. Moderation, people!

marmitepotato

Love coke zero, love Pepsi Max even more. I buy two litres a week and its usually all gone by the next shop. I don't care if its bad for me! Life in general is bad for me! So if I want a drop of coke or Pepsi I'll have it!

I also drink tea, water, coffee , fruit juice, smoothies, etc etc etc