I know the headline sounds funny, but remember that could kill a diabetic.
Coca-Cola has voluntarily recalled 13,152 cases of Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade because it discovered during an internal investigation that cans labeled as Zero Sugar contain full sugar.
Not Coke, it’s the lemonade.
Minute Maid is owned by Coke. That’s why the headline says Coke is pulling the drinks.
Headline could be written better, I warned my friend who’s sister is a diabetic before realizing its just the lemonade
Now you know better than to stop reading after two seconds. If you spent three more seconds reading the summary your panicked warning would have been avoided.
If I had stopped reading after 2 seconds I wouldn’t know it was the lemonade, something that should be put front and center because if I was a drinker of minute maid zero sugar lemonade and I saw “Coke recalls popular zero sugar drink”, I wouldn’t’ve bothered reading further.
Anyone downvoting is just shilling for shitty news practices.
This headline was intentionally misleading. At BEST it’s meant to be vague to make you click into the article to find out what the drink is. Either way it’s shitty.
Did you only read the headline and immediately tell someone not to drink cola…
or did you read the headline and summary and still tell someone not to drink cola?Make up your mind.
I am very tempted to complain about the state of modern journalism, but maybe we don’t have to expect better from “simpyrecipes.com”.
Still, holy clickbait, Batman.
“simpy” recipes are something else entirely.
Could’ve recalled it for being Minute Maid too.
13k cases is like 30 seconds of production 😂
You aren’t far off. I’ve been in the Anheuser Busch plant in Cartersville GA about 20 years ago and I swear one line bottled 600 a minute…. Remember thinking how it took two of our plants to keep one of theirs going. You couldn’t see the bottles they moved so fast.
Thing is though there’s around 12-24 bottles per case depending on the size of the bottles.
Our fastest filler here at work does 36,000 bottles an hour, so you definitely won’t be getting 13,000 cases in 30 seconds I can assure ya ;)
Check the label before you drink it, especially if you’re watching your sugar intake for medical reasons.
Umm. How would checking the label help? If the drinks were labelled correctly, there would be no reason for a recall.
In this case, they’re probably referring to the lot number. The affected numbers are FEB1725CNA and FEB1725CNB for Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade.
If I was told to just check the label, I’d probably also assume they meant the nutrition information. In that case you’d be correct that it wouldn’t help you identify the affected drinks because they would be marked as having 0g sugar.
I agree. The best thing to do is avoid it entirely for now. I’m guessing there are other sugar-free lemonade options. Is Crystal Light still around? I used to like that one.
The recall was initiated on September 10…
Yay! An urgent thing that happened over a month ago! I sure am glad that people get timely notifications of these events.
I’m not quite sure how this would done in a timely-er fashion. Signage in the stores? In theory, anyone paying with plastic could have been contacted through the card company.
That would involve the manufacturer alerting the store, the store alerting all the various card companies, then the card companies alerting the customer. That’s a lot of infrastructure to keep running and to do so fast enough that the customer finds out within a day or two of the recall.
Expensive. Worthwhile given the potential to save lives or hospital stays, but you know how companies are.
This would also involve admitting all your purchase history is collected and stored in a way that is not anonymized, which I don’t think people would quite like to be explicitly told about.
I never even mentioned alerting individual customers. The publication date on the story is TODAY. We can certainly do better than that.
I understood that from your comment. I wasn’t contradicting you or challenging what you said, just wondering aloud how we might go about it and pointing out some flaws in my own point.
That said, even if this article was published the day of the recall, I imagine only a minority of the affected purchasers would ever see it. I couldn’t say I’ve ever looked at a recipes website to inform me of important consumer news.
How does this keep happening? Poor quality control. Pepsi had similar earlier this year.
Well, I mean it’s not going to kill a diabetic if they consume sugar they weren’t anticipating… sure it might spike their levels higher than anticipated, but it would only cause harm long term if they didn’t monitor .
It depends how much sugar. I have type 1, and if I had 20 grams on accident, it could ruin my levels for half a day but not the end of the world. If I had 45 grams (a can of soda) or more on accident I’d probably just go to the hospital at that point. Or at least I’d be scared. Once blood sugar levels get too high it’s rough to control and you’re in a somewhat fragile state. And also you start to feel like shit the longer it goes on (dka.)
I guess I’m saying is usually no it won’t kill you but especially for type 1 people it’d probably make for a somewhat traumatic experience.
if they didn’t monitor
You’re talking about a country with a for-profit healthcare system.
Sugar or high fructose corn syrup?
HFCS is sugar. Just not cane sugar. And at the end of the day, sugar is sugar and we shouldn’t be having it all the time.
Yes but I like making cheap jabs at the drink industry.
On a serious note - you’re absolutely right to avoid sugar, and I stopped drinking sweetened beverages many years ago. From what I understand though, people would develop fewer health problems if they consumed cane sugar instead of HFCS. Apparently the unbound fructose makes a difference when consuming sugar at such a high volume.
I’m afraid that HFCS and cane sugar affect your health equally.
Well that was an interesting rabbit hole. There have been a number of new studies in the past decade, and researchers are still investigating the effects of free fructose in sweeteners.
This study is fairly recent: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188419/
This study notes how the actual amount of fructose varies from the expected amount in popular beverages: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900714001920
Every study I read continues to point out that sweeteners with free fructose taste sweeter and have negative health effects in large quantities while stating how results are inconclusive due to excessively caloric intake. I’m still skeptical of HFCS for now.
My favorite zero calorie drink is water.
I feel bad for people’s whose stomachs get upset when drinking water, they have to turn to solutions like sugar-free drinks whether they like it or not.
As @[email protected] astutely points out, it’s a big deal for a lot of people with dietary issues, diabetics being the most prominent.
I have a hard time believing someone can be sick from water but artificial sweetener in water doesn’t cause that. Has to be psychosomatic.
Straight water doesn’t make me sick, but unless I’m already pretty thirsty (working hard/exercising outside in summer) and it’s full of ice, I find drinking water unpleasant.
I’ll drink water when I have to, but I’ll drink flavored/calorie free drinks because I enjoy them, thus staying far more hydrated.
No, water is really bad if you have unmedicated GERD. I am fairly certain that if I miss a day of meds, the swift intense heartburn is not psychosomatic. I don’t know why, but anything with carbonation is much less intense.
Sounds like a class action suit for any person that consumed the drinks while it was advertised as zero sugar
Only if they suffered harm. I’m not sure that enough people will have suffered harm for it to be a class action.
Idk man. You can sue for anything anymore
FYI there is no such thing as truly “zero calorie”. Sure, we can’t use aspartame and those “0 calorie” sweeteners for energy BUT our gut microbes can metabolize those compounds into products that we can then use for energy. So one way or another you’re still taking in calories. Now do you gain more energy from straight sugar vs the sweeteners? I have no idea, I haven’t studied this in years. I just like to bring up that little bit of trivia whenever anyone brings up zero calorie drinks in conversation :)
It doesn’t really matter if aspartame and sugar have the same amount of calories when you use 1/200th as much to get the same level of sweetness.
That’s a hard to believe claim. Do you have a source for it?
ya I did a lit review for my thesis a few years back, plenty of papers on microbes metabolizing these compounds, shouldn’t be hard to find.
So no, you don’t have a source
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10144565/ Here’s a good start on “NNS”/non nutritional sweeteners.
Honestly its probably not a very big impact, its more of a “its possible” sort of thing.
Its a really interesting field!