Coca-Cola Life

DeanoVilla

DeanoVilla

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Ok, so I don't drink coke, and I try to talk Natalie out of it too, as the original is full of sugar and the diet version full of aspartame, but you know what women are like, they don't listen so every now and again she has a hankering....

Anyway, was in the shop the other day and saw a green bottle of Coca-Cola, called Coca-Cola Life.... it said on the front it was made with 'Natural Sweetners'.

Great I thought... a diet drink without sugar or aspartame.. winner!

So I bought it, got it home, read the ingredients.... it's got fucking sugar in it!!! 20% of you daily recommended intake per 250ml serving!!!

What the actual feck!!!???

So first there was coke, people complained about the sugar, so they invented diet coke, people complained about the aspartame, so they invented Coca-Cola Life which is basically original coke with a green label?!?!

The cheeky little feckers!
 
Got you to buy one though. Not sure why people buy Coke when you can buy Asda cola for 42p for 2 litres.
 
I look forwards to Coca-Cola Death, which will be a new version where they put the aspartame back in.
 
Yup, said before, the marketing of processed food is sinful.

It is fine when we get the right facts and food labelling and then decide if we want to eat and drink the stuff. But the lies they are allowed to get away with is nothing short of scandalous.

Said before,bread claiming to be a good source of omega 3 when you would need hundreds of slices, sweets saying a good source of vitamin c etc.

The strange one is the supermakrkets and food manufacturers don't label all that is good in the food that actually IS good for us, so you buy watercress as one example a programme illustrated recently and you wouldn't have a clue how much goodness there is in a packet unless you are clued up yourself.

Mad isn't it?
 
Not sure why people buy coke when you can buy a cheaper chemically addictive formula for less?

If anyone walks into my home or my gym with a bottle of fizzy chems, they either leave, or the shit goes down the sink, I don't allow that crap on my premises, I certainly wouldn't supply anything like it to someone I loved, no matter how much they bitch and beg to be allowed to poison themselves.

I've had reps from lucozade, coke, poweraid blah blah, offering me great deals on large display fridges for free and cheap stock, I'm as straight with them as I am with you, I tell them in no uncertain terms what I think of their products, I educate them on what they are pushing and the damage that their products are doing, they leave under no illusion that it would be a cold day in hell before I would accept a penny of profit from peddling their poison.

 
Yeah I heard the other day that Parsley has more vitamin C than Oranges. I would never have known that. Will be eating more of it now I know.
 
Is Ginger Beer ok?

I bought a bottle of that from Tesco last night, and it has no sugar and no aspartame.

I know in an ideal world I'd drink nothing but water, but I'm not an ideal person, so if I am to have a treat I assume something without sugar and aspartame is the best of a bad bunch?
 
Herbal teas, experiment. Let them go cold. Delicious.

Squeeze a lemon or lime in a bottle of water. If you need fizzy, have fizzy, bloats you up though. Lovely and healthy.

Get a grapefruit. Use a squeezer. Fabulous drink.

And water ... If you get used to it (sounds strange I know) can be gorgeous. Best thing I've ever done (err.. Get out more fear!) is buy a bibo connect to tap water filter. Fecking lovely water.

And yes, I know, I have blue bolt energy drinks, not being a hypocrite, but I live in a fog of brain ache exhaustion, I am experimenting with things like tyrosine etc to give me the same clarity and energy though.
 
Oh.water melon... Blender. Tip into a bottle. Chill. Gorgeous and very good for you/cleansing.
 
I drink lots of herbal tea, and recently green tea too.

I drink lots of water, mainly still, but sometimes enjoy sparkling.

But sometimes you just fancy a soft drink. So whats the best of a bad bunch? Surely no sugar and no aspartame is ok? Or are there still other hidden meanies in there?

I don't see the problem with the occasional fizzy drink so long as the majority of my drinking is tea and water, but I do want to avoid sugar and aspartame as I know they are awful.
 
I only bought the coke life because the way it was advertised led me to believe it was a no sugar, no aspartame option. Turns out they were talking bollox.
 
DeanoVilla - 1/9/2014 16:11

I only bought the coke life because the way it was advertised led me to believe it was a no sugar, no aspartame option. Turns out they were talking bollox.
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I seen those bottles in our local supermarket. The green labels put me off anyway.

Not that I would have bought it. If I have 1 maybe 2 glasses a year that is it and then it's on holiday.
 
Not looked at ginger beer to be honest, so no idea what it has in it!

Ginger beer is produced in two versions: brewed ginger beer (which includes home-brewed) or a carbonated drink flavored primarily with ginger and sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_beer


Not sure there is a best of a bad bunch, if you feel like a 'treat' and consider that a treat, then have it I would say! Just not any with aspartame in. If you drink ok 95% of the time then the odd doo dah won't kill you.
 
If you very rarely drink coke I'd recommend if you do feel the need to have the full fat coke
 
Don't do fizzy drinks or fizzy water.... sorry lager.

I prefer either Robinsons Orange cordial or Vimto cordial.... simples.
 
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