Coca-Cola Recalls Its Popular Zero Sugar Drink Because It Contains Full Sugar
Coca-Cola Recalls Its Popular Zero Sugar Drink Because It Contains Full Sugar
If you recently bought Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade, please note that Coca-Cola voluntarily recalled 13,152 cases because it was found that they contained full sugar. Check the label before you drink it, especially if you're watching your sugar intake for medical reasons.
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.
Could've recalled it for being Minute Maid too.
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.
13k cases is like 30 seconds of production 😂
Hahahahah Fuck it I'm leaving my long ass conspiracy theory centered around this breakthrough being about Coke Zero specifically and no other drinks comment I responded to someone else with.
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.
Ah, excellent point, thank you.
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.
I'm super fuckin curious now. As a type 1 diabetes since 12y/o, before the 2010's the only readily available 0 sugar drink options were water and diet pop. So for idk 20 years I was raised on DP giggety
Fast forward to the first time I got coke zero from a restaurant when it first came out. I was 100% positive they were putting sugar in it and have not wavered from that unfounded conspiracy theory.
Even more so after every brand of pop, juice, energy drink after that 2010ish decade had its own zero sugar options on the market. Nothing comes even close to the flavor in coke zero. In the absolute slimmest chance this has been a day 1 fuckup they are just catching I still feel like it could be a very small amount cuz that all it takes to give body to a zero sugar drink.
My source for this belief can be found in drinks like Gatorade G2 vs GZero, or new Prime energy drinks I see everywhere now, or another good one is the oj brands who offer half the sugar options of OJ.
You drink a zero sugar drink back to back with any of these example and you will totally get what I'm saying about the empty taste of zero sugar vs the fuller less chemically tasting "low" not "zero" options lisred above.
Then look at the total carbs of the light sugar options to the full flavor all the sugar options and the one with the highest amount of sugar should be the OJ and even that is only 50% of the full flavored OJ.
Normal energy drink: 35-50g of carms compared to 6g of carbs in prime. Gatorade: 36g vs G2 is i wanna say 12ga or go further with Gatorade Fit that has a splash of juice and that is a mere 4g of carbs.
So back to coke zero. It could only take a couple grams per can to get that real coke taste in coke zero. Yes it could cause most diabetics to raise an eyebrow as to why they're sugar readings after a coke zero are slightly higher but the reality of it is you would haven't be on the strictest regiment diet of the same exact amount of portions, recipes and execute your insulin delivery efficiency to perfection rotating sites so the same % of injected insulin is retained for every meal and even then the difference from adding a can of coke zero with 4-8g of carb is barely going to move the needle.
For most diabetic insulin regiments they start you off on a scale of 1unit of insulin per every 12-15g of carbs consumed depending on the person's size, age etc. Way back when they first trained me I was instructed to round to the nearest 5 and take the closest dose of insulin to match. So a single can isn't ever going to ruin someone's night cuz it isnt even enought carbs to round up to take 1 unit on insulin for.
Still doesn't make me any less interested if my bat shit crazy conspiracy theory is actually true. Lol
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.
In Germany, supermarkets typically post product recalls right on the doors or over the shelves of the section that has the affected products. I guess if you bought something you might be less likely to go down that aisle again next time and come across the sign, but (barring a big empty space at the entrance) I think that's the most reasonable place for them to be
Fun story, the recent meat recall (the second one) affected some salads I bought early September.. we got an email long after we'd eaten them letting us know, and to call "this number" if you'd like a refund.
Sorry, I lied, it wasn't a fun story.
You should just shit in a box and mail it to them.
This was orange juice not coca cola zero (the headline is misleading)
If i have to guess the gymnic was that they add zero additional sugar (but oranges still have sugar).
While I hate these misleading names and i am in favour of this kind of actions; i suspect diabetic people are familiar with this BS and would have read the nutrition facts
Lemonade, not orange juice. And no, it was a zero sugar lemonade, artificially sweetened, and they put sugar in it accidentally.
But I agree, the headline should have been worded better.
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 @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 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.
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.
it is psychosomatic, but can still be debilitating. i knew a Navy veteran who could not drink straight water at all because while in the Navy, he had to drink several gallons of the stuff every day. as soon as he was discharged (honorably), he found he couldn't have water without anything added to it simply because he had so much of it in the service. of course, he still has to drink water, so he carries around a bottle of flavoring
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.
That's not the concern. The concern is someone getting too much sugar.
Like the broccoli woman?
I fucking love water
Same, but Coca-Cola releases way more dopamine in my starving brain
Put cocaine back in it.
Good point. Serious oops.
How does this keep happening? Poor quality control. Pepsi had similar earlier this year.
so they made it taste like shit for no reason
I see you're familiar with the Coca-Cola company.
Same here. The magic is gone.
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
You'd have to prove you drank it before September 10, and it was from those specific batches.
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.
Minute Maid was awesome back in the 80s. Their fruit punch was the goat.
I think they changed the formula of their drinks. I haven't had any in a while, but it was pretty awful when I tried a couple of them a few years ago.
Welch's made a fruit punch soda that was next fucking level for me.
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 .
if they didn’t monitor
You're talking about a country with a for-profit healthcare system.
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.
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 :)
Hah, love this. Never change buddy. You're the best :-).
Whew good thing I drink diet Dr Pepper!
I thought the main danger to diabetics was not having sugar after taking insulin.
Blood sugar can be too high as well.
I’m not 100%, but I’m pretty sure the issue is with restricted ability to use / produce insulin to regulate blood sugar thus leading to dangerously high levels.
That's only a danger if they take too much insulin. Insulin is used by the body to make the cells absorb sugar.
Too high or too low can be dangerous, and there's different varieties of diabetes that make one or both swings more likely/dangerous.