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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:23PM (1 child)
Sugary drinks such as Coca-Cola, apple juice, grape juice, and orange juice indeed are poison. The problem chemical is fructose. HFCS is not radically different from what's found in apples and oranges. There's only slightly more fructose. It does not matter if your apple/orange/grape juice comes from locally-sourced, cruelty-free, non-GMO, organic, sustainable, pesticide-free, BPA-free, kosher, halal, etc apples/oranges/grapes. They still have fructose, and the liver just has a difficult time processing fructose. Fact of life.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ledow on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:06AM
Strange that we've been consuming it for millennia, isn't it? Fructose is quite literally "fruit sugar". If you ate a lot of fruit, you'd have the same problem. Hell, over-eating honey (done since at least the Ancient Egyptians) - same problem. Again, everything in moderation.
Next up, you're going to pull saturated versus unsaturated fats, "good carbs" vs "bad carbs", "good bacteria" vs "bad bacteria", etc.?
Sure, Coca Cola isn't naturally occurring. Which is why you consume it in moderation.
However, life expectancy since it existed has increased enormously.
Sugar doesn't kill you or destroy your liver. The only possible disease it's been linked with (correlatively, not causatively) is actually reversible by... not over-eating in general.
Please stop spreading nonsense.