Coca-Cola under fire as health experts uncover hidden dangers: 'It shouldn't be allowed to be sold' | It's very high in sugar (The Cool Down)
  • 541 points kenporusty

    Coca cola is high in sugar??

    What's next, water is high in dihydrogen monoxide??

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    88 points IHateTheLetterF

    Cheeseburgers are high in cheese

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    43 points therobberbride

    utterly packed with burger, too, it’s horrible 

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    33 points skippythemoonrock

    SEAWEED, 50% SEA, 50% WEED

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    3 points EinsteinBurger

    Reminds me of the South Park ManBearPig, 50% man 50% bear 50% pig.

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    6 points kenporusty

    scandalous they shouldn't be selling those!

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    0 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    0 points Final_Boss_Jr

    And you know what happens after you contract Burgs? ERS.

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    9 points Whateveryouwantitobe

    Every single living thing that has ever come into dihydrogen monoxide, is dead or will die. We need to ban the substance NOW.

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    5 points Twitchmonky

    That shit's deadly

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    2 points MassiveBoner911_3

    BAN WATER

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    2 points f8tel

    Juice

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    1 points x86_64_

    It's not funny, 100% of people who breathe dihydrogen monoxide will die.

    /s, in case

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    1 points No_Cook2983

    Lifehack: Pet fish crave dihydrogen monoxide! Serve it to them as a fun treat!

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    1 points nyclurker369

    Not dihyodrogen monoxide! :O

    Too much of that and you can die!

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    0 points free_beer

    Yea, but TIL it's actually very high in sugar.

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  • 138 points CableSufficient2788

    “Hidden dangers” lol

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    80 points SGTSHOOTnMISS

    They put it in the most secret location possible: The nutrition label.

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  • 73 points Vendidurt

    In SHOCK, i say!

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  • 27 points kain459

    No shit.

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  • 25 points Specman9

    Hidden? 😂

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  • 22 points AtLeast3Breadsticks

    fork found in kitchen

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  • 18 points Winter-Bed-1529

    All other sodas must be fine then right? They only mentioned Coke?

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    15 points Overwatchingu

    Study was paid for by Pepsi

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    5 points GeorgiaYork

    Bravo!

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  • 9 points Exciting_Telephone65

    NO WAY

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  • 8 points seantabasco

    That’s why I drink Dr. Pepper.

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    13 points Murrian

    I just got diagnosed with diabetes and I'm fairly certain it's Dr Pepper Cream Soda that pushed me over the edge from being pre-diabetic... love that stuff, but it even tastes like drinking a can of sugar..

    It's the only sugary thing I consume, don't have a sweet tooth so most candies are out and don't like biscuits or cake.

    Will consume my body weight in crisps (chips) pretty much daily though, so that's probably the main candidate..

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    2 points Murrian

    Ah, probably cheaper than my sleep specialist - thought it was my apnea making me tired, turned out to be diabeetus 

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    2 points gallifreyfalls55

    That guy spent too much time in school. I’d buy that shit from a Mr Pepper

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  • 18 points Digstreme

    Dasani is more of a crime, they add salt

    Coca Cola can also shove it for calling Ice to arrest their mexican employees right as their shift was about to end

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    7 points WTFdidUcallMe

    It looks like Dasani stopped adding salt in 2024. I had no idea. I shouldn’t have to read a label for water!

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    7 points GitEmSteveDave

    So, dasnai is made in multiple plants across the US, just like coke. Just like coke, the water is nano filtered. Dasnai then goes through a extra filtration step which makes it, in essence, pure h2O. Now the issue is that pure h2O has no taste, as the taste of water comes from dissolved minerals in it. That's why water from certain areas taste different than water from other areas. So in order to make a bottle from California taste the same as a bottle from Florida, they add a "mineral pack", which contains essential salts, so that the flavor profile is the same.

    It's also essential because with no dissolved minerals in it, it would actually leech minerals from your body. It's why you shouldnt drink distilled/deionized water and all purified water does the same thing.

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    1 points ThePopeofHell

    I always figured the reason why Dasani tasted weird was because you were tasting the plastic bottle.

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  • 9 points JohnClark13

    ah, ok. So not the highly acidic nature of it....

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    2 points Shienvien

    I mean, carbonated water, lemons and many more things can have even more acid.

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  • 7 points SecretPersonality178

    Holy shit!

    What’s next? Cigarettes and vaping are bad for you too?!?!?

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  • 5 points Cheese-Manipulator

    It says so right in the ingredients lol

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  • 3 points Mr_master89

    Experts uncover the hidden dangers of fire: it's hot and burns.

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  • 2 points timmy6591

    Lol... we're singling out Coca-Cola?!?! News flash: 95% of the "standard American diet" is made up of highly processed foods drenched in sugar, salt, pesticides and chemical additives. There are about 43,000 everyday foods you could put in place of "Coca-cola" in the title.

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  • 2 points retsoPtiH

    scientists when they do THE SCIENCE on Mountain Dew: 🤯🤯🤯

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  • 1 points w3woody

    Notice that no-one is talking about banning expensive sugary drinks drunk by the middle- and upper-middle class, like Starbucks Frappuccinos. Almost as if there were a class component to these bans, almost as if the point was to punish the poor for being fat and poor, rather than just for being fat.

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    1 points pcbforbrains

    I see the point you're trying to make, but technically if they are trying to ban the poor people's drinks and not the rich people's drinks, then the point is to punish the rich and fat, not the poor and fat. Unless we are considering depriving the poor of Coke (with a ban in place) as punishment. This is one of the more bizarre comments I have ever typed

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    0 points SnooCrickets9281

    They actually did ban it somewhere in the Midwest years ago but it didn’t last

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  • 1 points Eliottwr

    Sugar is very high in sugar. It shouldn't be sold.

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  • 1 points Pitiful_Option_108

    "Uhhhh how long have we had this exact same recipe (waits for an answer) 130 year post cocaine removal and they are just now complaining about the sugar content. Welp"

    • coke cola exec

    Also I think what makes this even dumber beyond the fact coke has had this much sugar for about a century is you can buy two different versions with no sugar. Diet Coke and Coke Zero which the later is the Original Coke taste minus the sugar.

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  • 1 points thxdr

    It also still contains “decocainized” coca leaf extract as a “flavoring” agent. Something tells me this might also have unknown health effects. I know I get anxiety attacks and heart palpitations from Coca Cola even though I drink coffee and tea with no problem.

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  • 1 points FReeDuMB_or_DEATH

    I like how all the comments are like 'we know and we don't care!'

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  • 1 points Dopecombatweasel

    Stopped drinking soda years ago after kidney stone. You don't want that experience

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  • 1 points fusilaeh700

    its basically poison

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  • 1 points _Sauer_

    These products have to have a warning on them now here in Canada.

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  • 1 points Brrdock

    Do these people know they literally sell pure sugar at the grocery store?

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  • 1 points two_fish

    It’s liquid candy.

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  • 2 points Sweet-Dotte8691

    Harder to quit than smoking in my case but I did it.

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    1 points Hipcatjack

    diet coke is even harder

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    -12 points Drezus

    I guess it’s too hard to develop good, mature tastes for beverages

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  • 1 points Musicguy4

    Pop is ridiculously high in sugar. I don't know how some people can handle drinking so much of it.

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  • 1 points Dayzlikethis

    damn, better stop drinking my liter a day of cola.

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  • 1 points Technical_Anteater45

    Blocking op for being a noise generator

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  • 1 points TooTallTrey

    Mountain Dew must be SWEATING

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  • 1 points ms_panelopi

    Also Pepsi, Mt. Dew, …, the list goes on.

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    1 points ms_panelopi

    But but, I don’t like Pepsi😭😢😭😢😭

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  • 1 points elmoosh

    Wow they uncovered that huge secret?! They MUST be experts.

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  • 1 points Jaggz691

    Where has everyone been?

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  • 0 points Weightmonster

    That’s not hidden. 

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  • 0 points burritoman88

    WHAT YEAR IS IT?!

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  • 0 points Lavatis

    thanks for reminding me I've got some coke in the fridge

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  • 0 points Mfamos1

    Like it hasn't been this way FOREVER! 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

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  • 0 points sanesociopath

    Now this is exactly the sort of clickbait I come here for

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    1 points DrG2390

    I thought I read somewhere recently it was 25g for women and 30 for men. I have no sugar cravings personally, so I’m right around 25g personally as far as daily consumption goes. Maybe it’s different if you expend a lot of energy daily?

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  • 0 points uuoah

    dude no way

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  • 0 points D3-Doom

    I mean is it higher than other sodas?

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  • 0 points magondrago

    Man, I wish the underlying headline would be that journalism is dead, but that ship sailed somewhere around 2015. At this point we're desecrating the corpse and grinding the bones into the worst possible cheese for mass consumption.

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  • 0 points Healmetho

    Wait - ice cream is still healthy right? RIGHT???!!!

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  • 0 points plinocmene

    And water is wet.

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  • -2 points RealLavender

    Almost as amazing as the reports that find people who drink Coke Zero are more likely to have the same medical issues as people who are obese. Almost as if people use it to avoid calories/sugar. Shocking stuff.

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