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Green cans of Coke, I first thought they were selling off stock remaindered from some St Patrick's Day promotion.
A bit of googling tells me it doesn't have as much sugar as the normal stuff.
Some marketing product placement meeting that was that came up with the labelling of this new drink.
What does that make full fat Coke with its normal sugar level?
Coca-Cola Death

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its supposed to use natural sugar and be better for you

this explains why it tastes nothing like coca cola and is crap

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Coca cola Life is sweetened with stevia.....this is a natural sweetener which doesn't have the same effects as artificial sweeteners.
It doesn't disrupt the blood sugar levels like other sweeteners.
It has been used in Japan for a long time and it was available in Australia in liquid form(to sweeten tea and coffee) at least ten years ago.

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Googling tells me it's been blinged up with a sweetener extracted from the South American stevia leaf. Whatever that is. Spiced brown water with vegetable extract made in vast vats. Pseudo eco crap trying to suggest it's as natural as a highland stream.
But people fall for this marketing guff and buy it.

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Stevia leaf is a natural sweetener........I have already explained something about it in a previous post.
It is better for diabetics than other sweeteners.....despite the fact that other sweeteners are not sugar, they still cause fluctuations in blood sugar levels.
As I remarked before, this sweetener has been used in soft drinks in other countries for over a decade.
I was using it to sweeten hot drinks back in 2004......it was much more expensive back then than other sweeteners.

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It don't really matter what kind of sweetener you add to shiite ... it still tastes like shiite. Coke worsens the taste of rot gut whiskey.

And why has green become such a positive color ... green is the color of what's growing on the leftovers in my fridge.:mad: "Green" is what you grow around the gills just before you do the technicolor yawn. And who can forget Jenny Greenteeth ... Stay away from the cut or .... :D

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Surely sugar is a natural sweetener Margaret?

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I'm willing to give it a try but I haven't seen it on sale anywhere yet. But most likely be crap all the diety type pop is

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Of course sugar is a natural sweetener.....are you trying to be fly?

The difference between sugar and stevia is that it has no calorific value.....which may or may not be important to you.
The other thing about sweeteners is that although they are not sugar and have no calories, they still affect the blood sugar levels......so for type 2 diabetics they still should be used with care.

Stevia does not have the effect that sugar and other sweeteners have on blood sugar levels.

The other thing about some sweeteners is that the metabolites from them are turned into a formaldehyde type substance in the body.
Formaldehyde is the stuff that pathologists use for pickling specimens...not something that you want to introduce into a living body.

I am pretty sure if you have googled stevia, that you know much of this stuff.

When I used to go out on my travels to Oz I always brought stevia back with me...I have used sweeteners in my hot drinks for more years that I care to think about.......and this is my sweetener of choice.

I cannot abide aspartame, acesulfame, sucralose, I will not buy drinks which are sweetened with them.......and sometimes if I buy a drink while I am out and I have a sip I can tell right away if any of these sweeteners are in my drink.

Check out all those drinks that say 'No Added Sugar'...you can bet your neck that they will contain one of the sweeteners that I have mentioned.

Many foods have been sweetened using these artificial sweeteners.

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Asda have had it for quite a while now.
I don't drink fizzy pop very often.......and I don't like Coke/Pepsi.

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Sweetleaf Stevia - All Natural Herbal Sweetener - 0 Calories, 0 Carbs
I don't use any sugar or sweeteners but have a supply of stevia tablets for guests.
I bought mine with groceries from Ocado but they are available at Asda and Tesco, as shown on this shopping website.
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PS - Ocado even sells chocolates made with it
http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getSear...e&entry=stevia

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Margaret...aldi have been selling them for a while now......I have not been able to ditch sweeteners in tea despite all my efforts.
I can have a box of chocolates in the house for twelve months and not be tempted, but unsweetened tea...bleuuugh!

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Liquorice tea is naturally sweet - and aids repair to a damaged colon.
I love (unsweetened) Yorkshire tea best.
Tea, decaff ground coffee, and filtered water are the only drinks I ever use.
PS I have a Berkey water filter system - not expensive bottled water
http://www.berkey-waterfilters.co.uk...FSoOwwod8YQA4A

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I have tried to wean myself off sweetened tea.......using a bit less sweetener......but I never enjoy the tea. I don't drink coffee, I am not fond of water, bottled, filtered or otherwise.
I don't have many vices, so I reckon if a cup of builders tea with sweetener in it is my guilty pleasure, then so be it.
I have got to an age when I think I am entitled to enjoy my tea(leaf tea, of course). :)

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No not being fly Margaret. Stevia may well be a healthier alternative to a whole basket of sweeteners, I am not convinced. Will it reduce tooth decay in youngsters? I think not it will only contribute to then developing the "sweet tooth" you and Margaret R confess to.
A fad a new alternative a bit like UKIP a different label offering not very much new when it's looked at closely.

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It isn't sugar.....I do not have a sweet tooth, otherwise the box of Thorntons chocolates(a present at Christmas last year) would be long gone. My only confession was to liking my tea sweetened.

As for tooth decay in youngsters, that is something that parents need to,address with appropriate dental hygiene and healthy dietary intake......but children consume lots of fizzy drinks, and even with sugar substitutes they are damaging.
They leach calcium out of the bones......as well as the sweeteners having adverse effects on living tissue(see earlier post).
And before you tell me that these sweeteners have been given a clean bill of health...I would say'pull the other one, it has bells on it'.
These sweeteners are a Montsanto production(well development)a very large and politically influential company who would have no compunction in skewing research results(in a scientifically acceptable form)to ensure their coffers are not affected.

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Margaret, I am beginning to sound like you :)

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I don't have 'a sweet tooth' either.
'Soft' drinks are loaded with sugars = bad news for health whatever age you are.
When I went on a strict diet for 6 months eliminating ALL forms of sugar (sucrose lactose glucose fructose etc) is when my palate was retrained to prefer savoury tastes.
Alcohol is fermented sugar - I haven't drunk that either since then.

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my Ma has diabetes......and this means that I am at more risk of developing this as I get older.
I am trying to avoid this fate by eating less...and certainly eating less sweet stuff.
I just can't drink unsweetened tea.......my Ma cannot drink unsweetened coffee......so she uses Stevia.....which does not influence her blood sugar levels.

For quite a few years her diabetes was very 'brittle'.......she would frequently drop her blood sugar alarmingly with a blood sugar level of 1.1(normal is 3.3 -6.6).
It was not very good being as she lives alone.
She is much more stable now......I don't put this down to Stevia...but to vigilance over what she has in the way of reduced sugar foods...and with careful monitoring of the sweeteners that are in these foods.

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You obviously are not paying attention.
Sucralose, Saccharin, acesulfame, aspartame are all chemically manufactured artificial sugar substitutes.....in fact I think it was aspartame which was discovered by accident when scientists were making Flagyl( a drug which combats anaerobic organisms) and aldactone....the scientist licked his fingers(good job he wasn't working on formulating arsenic) and found the substance was very sweet.

Despite not being sugar...they still affect blood sugar level adversely.

Stevia, on the other hand, is derived from the leaf of the stevia plant...it is 200 times sweeter than sugar, has no calories and does not adversely affect blood sugar levels like the other chemical sweeteners do.

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Just thinking of drinking that is knocking me sick :D

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I like liquorice, but don't think I would like to try liquorice tea.....though it is very good for the digestive system and has been used in calming stomach ulcers in the past.

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Green,red,black or silver it's just more of the same muck :smoky:.
I asked Mrs explorer (who is diabetic) what she thinks,she buys some sweet herbal leaf liquid off a website.She said "I use stevia nearly every day,for diabetics its a blessing" and She swears by the stuff "it as a 'safe sweetener' compared to saccharin or aspartame". I suppose it's ok in moderation like owt else ......


...If your diabetic, Your best consulting your doc if you have any concerns regarding your health and possible stevia dangers.
Personally, as a non-diabetic,I prefer (bleached) sugar on my weetabix :end:

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The thing is, over the years the general public have been bombarded by false information about foods....natural foods.
Eggs are bad for you they raise your cholesterol, butter is bad for you.....we should all eat margarine(a chemical substance which was first formulated to fatten up turkeys...it killed them)...... Fat was removed from foods, but then it didn't taste good so sugar or sugar substitutes were added to make it taste better. The general public were sucked in because labels on food trumpeted the message'reduced fat'.......and this was taken to mean healthy.

We should stop demonising food groups and specific foods. We should eat what our bodies tell us we need....But in moderation. That word is the key.

Years and years ago we got our eggs fresh from a family who had a pen and kept chickens.....we fed those chickens, we knew exactly where our breakfast egg came from and it wasn't Tesco.

Our food is messed about with too much. Children are eating foods which were not prepared by their mother in her kitchen, but in some factory somewhere.
How can this be healthy?
So much has changed and not improved life or health.

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Well here ya go. I tried it!

Review in one sentence.

Just like life, but in a bottle- Its Crap

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And there was I thinking that you were going to say....just like life - short and sweet.
I won't be trying it as I don't like cola drinks.

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Mate, you must've been one disappointed kid. ;)

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told ya lol :D

it coulda been a lot worse you coulda wasted vodka in it

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Coca Cola has been going downhill since 1903.:mad:

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bloody hell how old are you :D

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Not old enough to get into the over 18s;)

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Me neither....but then I am of a very sensitive disposition and will not apply when I reach that milestone.:D