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Coca-Cola sales surge after Diet Coke reboot
Coca-Cola Co beat Wall Street estimates with quarterly results on Tuesday, citing more demand for Coke Zero Sugar and new flavors under its Diet Coke brand as overall revenue topped expectations by around $300 million.
[...] The company said the launch of its popular low-calorie Diet Coke in sleeker tins and flavors including ginger-lime and feisty cherry drove Diet Coke volumes up 3 percent, marking a return to growth for the brand in North America.
[...] The strong results come as Coke diversifies its portfolio to include more low-sugar drinks with fewer calories to appeal to consumers reaching for healthier produce, while simultaneously spending more on marketing its core Coca-Cola brands.
Meanwhile, at Experimental Biology 2018:
Increased awareness of the health consequences of eating too much sugar has fueled a dramatic uptick in the consumption of zero-calorie artificial sweeteners in recent decades. However, new research finds sugar replacements can also cause health changes that are linked with diabetes and obesity, suggesting that switching from regular to diet soda may be a case of 'out of the frying pan, into the fire.' [...] The team fed different groups of rats diets high in glucose or fructose (kinds of sugar), or aspartame or acesulfame potassium (common zero-calorie artificial sweeteners). After three weeks, the researchers saw significant differences in the concentrations of biochemicals, fats and amino acids in blood samples.
The results suggest artificial sweeteners change how the body processes fat and gets its energy. In addition, they found acesulfame potassium seemed to accumulate in the blood, with higher concentrations having a more harmful effect on the cells that line blood vessels. "We observed that in moderation, your body has the machinery to handle sugar; it is when the system is overloaded over a long period of time that this machinery breaks down," Hoffmann said. "We also observed that replacing these sugars with non-caloric artificial sweeteners leads to negative changes in fat and energy metabolism."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday April 25 2018, @01:06PM (1 child)
We have separate aisles at our local independent grocery store for white people buying mexican food with brands like taco bell and a totally separate aisle for actual mexicans to buy mexican food with brands like mexicene or whatever, in some cases, the same exact spice or sauce, with a different label in spanish. The "good" coke is in the Mexican aisle.
Prices are different. I made slow cooker chili yesterday and if you buy your chili powder from the mexicans mexican food aisle its cheaper (and some claim, tastier) than the whites mexican food aisle. Also portions are larger in the mexicans mexican food aisle than in the whites mexican food aisle, little "taco bell" branded envelopes or small jars of dried powered chili vs "chile polvo" from the Mexene brand or whatever it was. If you really want a shocker check the price of Japanese asian aisle chili powders...
I really can't explain it. Its probably not superior health, I've seen a lot of fat hispanics and statistics seem to prove they're generally fatter (although this likely varies by locale, and age, gender, etc). Possibly they demand the store carry it unlike whites who are happy to drink gross corn syrup, its just a weird situation.
The reason why mexican coke is made with sugar and USA coke is made with corn syrup is entirely due to politically connected government handouts to midwestern corn farmers. The mysterious part is if white americans want to buy avocados or kiwi fruit or WTF, they'll just put those weird products in the white aisles, but there's almost a campaign to prevent white people from drinking healthier "mexican coke" so its hidden away in the mexicans mexican food aisle away from most white shoppers. Maybe contracts with corn syrup soda sellers require hiding the good stuff to get a good price on the rotten stuff.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Taibhsear on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:40PM
I wouldn't really be surprised. They do the same thing with the craft sodas in the stores by me too. Mexican coke is in the "Goods from around the world" aisle and the craft sodas are either in the liquor aisle or the energy drink aisle rather than the soda/pop/mixers aisle.