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I suspect this is to try to quantitatively match the stimulant effect of caffiene plus sugar/HFCS in the sweetened alternatives.
by dwaite 4y ago
I suspect this is to try to quantitatively match the stimulant effect of caffiene plus sugar/HFCS in the sweetened alternatives.
- scoopertrooper 4y agoAlternately, the artificial sweetener might end up being too sweet, so they balance it out with some more bitter caffine.
- jjice 4y agoMy guess would've been the appetite suppressant qualities of caffeine.
- gowld 4y agoWhy would they do that instead of putting in less sweetener?
- yababa_y 4y agobalancing out the acid maybe?
- function_seven 4y agoThis is like the Three Body Problem, but with recipe ingredients!
- freedomben 4y agoI drink a lot of caffeine free diet coke now that I've developed a caffeine intolerance, and I think you're right. It doesn't have the bite without the caffeine and tastes kind of flat.
- tppiotrowski 4y agoAm I the only one that experiences sugar as a depressant? Eating high glycemic index foods makes me lethargic and sleepy. I've never experienced a "sugar high". I also don't have diabetes as my blood sugar level is within norm during routine physicals.
- seer 4y agoMaybe you just get the insulin spike that deals with excess sugar in the blood much sooner which I think is what is supposed to make you sleepy. Probably should consider yourself lucky :)
- javierga 4y agoYes, this happens to me too. I can get maybe a maximum 15-20 minutes of increased cognitive performance after ingestion. Once that is over I become lethargic and afterwards a bit irate since my concentration dips. It bothers me that people like Warren Buffet can go along their day ingesting copious amounts of coke normal and sweets and still be a functional productive human being.
- tppiotrowski 4y agoWhen I used to work at big tech, we had a candy buffet in the kitchen and unlimited ice cream. This definitely lowered my work performance.
- hinkley 4y agoThere's a theory out there that since your intestines have 'taste buds' for sugar, that eating artificial sweetener ends up increasing your body's ability to scavenge sugars from your digestive tract. It's one of the working theories for a causative link between obesity and consumption of diet soda. Which is usually swamped by the correlative link between the two.
- dhosek 4y agoSugar, despite popular belief, is not a stimulant (I’d have to pull up my Intro Psych textbook to find the citations on this, but it’s been deeply studied).
- frosted-flakes 4y agoSimilarly, it doesn't make kids hyper. That's probably just a side effect of the environment in which kids typically get candy. There was a study, but I don't know what it was called.
- oldgradstudent 4y agoCoke Zero, on the other hand, has the same amount of caffeine as regular Coke, which makes me doubt this hypothesis.