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To keep you drinking they add plenty of sodium (50mg+) masked with sugar, HFCS, or sweeteners. They also add caffeine as a diuretic to keep consumers drinking,
by alecco 12y ago
To keep you drinking they add plenty of sodium (50mg+) masked with sugar, HFCS, or sweeteners. They also add caffeine as a diuretic to keep consumers drinking, too. And then they market it to children, lovely people.
Check out Dr. Robert Lustig videos. Also, the book Salt, Sugar, Fat, about food industry engineering.
- maxerickson 12y agoThe amount of caffeine in soda doesn't cause any dehydration. Here's an article talking about coffee (which has more caffeine per unit volume than soda): http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/13/262175623/coffee-myth-busting-cup-of-joe-may-help-hydration-and-memory http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/13/262175623/coffee...