Take that, red bull bonces!!!

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[–] 58 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

That is a lot of sugar, but to be fair, go to your local convenience store (if you're in the US) and look at the back of just about any drink for sale aside from bottled water and you'll be hard pressed to find drinks that aren't just as bad.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    To be clear, that means they are all terrible for you. I think that's pretty much universally true of anything you can buy in a gas station.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    To be fair, if you look at sugar contents, even the "healthy" fruit juices are filled with them. In fact, many argue that a fruit juice is not as healthy as they tell us because while you get some of the good nutrients of fruit in them (when they are 100% and not from concentrate), you also get a huge intake of sugar that goes quickly into your blood. When you eat fruit, you take the same amount of sugar but you need to digest the fruit first, making it slower to absorb. It's a good practice to drink a fruit juice accompanied by something to eat so you don't get the sugar rush.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Omfg, this whole comment section is actually infuriating. Y'all motherfuckers need jesus Liam

    Aspartame is fine, sugar won't hurt you. Just drink in moderation, and you're golden.

    Stop spreading FUD.

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    [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The more infuriating part are sugar free energy drinks. Per definition they don't have any energy in them.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Looks like my bowl of sugar cubes for breakfast is back on the table.

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    [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

    As someone who grew up avoiding sugar and having to look at the back of everything this would have been relatively low in sugar compared to other products sold in that same store in my area. In the South of the US you would have a hard time finding something lower than sprite and or tea(~35g)without alternative synthetic sweeteners like aspertain and sucralose or just water and those options used to be sparce. A lot of times a convenience store would only have diet coke, unsweet tea, or water unless I was okay with 30+ grams of sugar. I'm not saying that it's okay to have that much sugar, but it definitely seems far out of the way from some of the much lower hanging fruit. For example even Gatorade and Powerade have more sugar per package unit and those were available via vending machines IN the school. Also, pretty much every fast-food drink station makes you choose between water, unsweetened tea, or something with almost 50g of sugar when in a can.

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    [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    actually according to their website it's 27g of sugars. What I found even funnier (or worse) though is this

    Makes it look like RB has less sugar than juice, but we're comparing 100ml of the bull to 250ml of juice. FFS

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    [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (39 children)

    Pet peeve.... sugar doesn't give you diabetes.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (10 children)

    Chronically high intake of sugar especially from soft drinks can definitely contribute to type 2 diabetes

    Just because someone has diabetes doesn't mean they have a bad diet though. But excess calories and weight gain, increased liver fat, and worsening insulin resistance can directly lead to it and shit like red bull can certainly help that along.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    "Contribute" and "causes" are not the same thing. I volunteer at a camp for kids with diabetes and one of the many things we need to work on with the kids is telling them they didn't give themselves diabetes. People repeating what you are repeating is part of the problem.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Look, telling kids that they're not responsible for their diabetes versus warning people not to drink too much high sugar soda because it can contribute to type 2 diabetes are two very different and fine things.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Chronically high intake of sugar especially from soft drinks can definitely contribute to type 2 diabetes

    While perhaps technically correct, this is misleading because it implies a relationship like smoking and cancer.

    If you don't already have T2D then sugar intake won't give you T2D. It might make you overweight which might give you T2D but that's not really the sugar.

    Conversely, plenty of people eating a healthy balanced diet who are not overweight develop T2D.

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    [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

    Wait why are you not drinking red bull zero

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    [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    39 grams of sugar in a 12 oz can of Coke.

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    [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Coca cola and Dr Pepper both have 40g sugar in a can

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    This is still less sugar than the chocolate milk cartons they serve in American schools.

    EDIT: Just to be clear, I hate both lol

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    [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I thought that the sugar industry worked really hard to ensure they didn't have to show a daily % amount on the right across from the grams listing. I have never seen a % there before. Crazy.

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago*

    "Nah im not tired or insomniac i just love consuming 3 cans of bull piss every single day it tastes just good"

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The slogan, "RedBull gives you Wings" needs an asterisk. It only applies to those who are grated into heaven after they die of diabeetus

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    [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    As a caffeine source, I would argue the bigger problem is a missed opportunity to get the phytonutrients in coffee or tea. For most people, their daily coffee might very well be the only source of polyphenols they get that day.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

    You can just drink the sugar free one and get alzheimers from the aspartame instead.

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    [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Could be worse I guess, coca cola has about 50g or so in a can

    On another note, I hate how all drinks add more sugar than needed. I usually use only 10g to sweeten my milk tea, but every canned drink is 30 to 50g

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    [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    If you believe in a Christian heaven, then the original slogan is still true. They should probably just go with "Red Bull. This shit will kill you" to be more secular.

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