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Sugar is sugar. Honest Tea is no healthier than Coke, at least not because they use sucrose instead of HFCS (maybe it is because they use less of it, but that's
by rsheridan6 16y ago
Sugar is sugar. Honest Tea is no healthier than Coke, at least not because they use sucrose instead of HFCS (maybe it is because they use less of it, but that's not at issue here). At least when people drink Coke, they know they're doing something unhealthy.
Fuck Honest Tea and all of those other natural beverage peddlers that try to trick people into thinking that their bottled diabetes is somehow healthy because it's natural. There's nothing natural about drinking megadoses of disaccharides.
- joeyh 16y agoErm, I think that Honest Tea was the only completely unsweetened tea in my local supermarket. "Was" because the glass-bottled, unsweetened teas are no longer being stocked there; only the apparently more sweetened plastic bottled teas remain.
- gphil 16y agoI've also noticed that's becoming harder and harder to find unsweetened iced tea anywhere. Is it really that unpopular?
- mkramlich 16y agono there really are different kinds of sugar, each with different structures and effects. similarities? yes.
- rsheridan6 16y agoThe differences aren't clinically significant. Sucrose disaccharides are broken down into glucose and fructose - the same things that are in HFCS - in the gut. HFCS has a slightly higher ratio of fructose to glucose, but not enough to really matter.