im trying to kick pop, is mio ok to substitute?

hi - i recently cut pop (diet) out of my life. It's been two weeks. I have suffered from terrible headaches each day, as I am certain this is because I quit. I say quit the pop, and don't do the MIO - its one artificial sweetener for another. Best to stick with water, plain old water. Try lemons or oranges or even cucumber slices in your water for a change of pace. There are hundreds of articles online about the dangers of pop (both diet and regular) so truly its best to just walk away and never look back. Good Luck to you, I know it's hard!

Mio is great, I also like the Diet Fuze Ice Teas and I like Coffee just black, and I like the Coke Zero better than the diet cuz it has no calories and it tastes more like regular soda.

I don't know what's in Diet Coke, but Mio doesn't sound any better.

Water, Malic Acid, Propylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Contains Less than 2% of Natural Flavor, Sucralose and Acesulfame Potassium (Sweeteners), Potassium Citrate, Red 40, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative).

i hate - HATE - plain water. i cannot drink more than 16-20 ounces a day. i have tried so many times to drink water. i've tried to replace every other drink with water (i drink diet coke). i just can't do it. i hate it. when mio came out, i figured it was a good way to get my water. i tried a couple of flavors and hit on the orange tangerine and strawberry watermelon. i need just a squeeze in my 16 ounce tervis and now i don't even bring diet coke to work anymore! i drink between 48 and 64 ounces of water each day at work. i now only drink a couple of diet cokes at night with dinner. it still has an artificial sweetener in it, but it has no caffeine and no calories - and it really satisfies my thirst. each bottle has 24 'servings' in it and each 'serving' is in 8oz of water. i used less than 1/2 a serving in each of my 16oz cups, so i can't imagine it's much worse for me than any of the other crap i would put in my body

for me it was the same thing - i just wanted the bubbles! try the flavored seltzers and club sodas - NOT the ones with aspartame, just "essence". (i think the ones with aspartame are called sparkling water - but check the label until you get to know your store's brand)

if you need to for the first few weeks do a pinch of sugar or 1/4-1/2 a splenda (or sub sweetener of your choice). soon enough you can work your way down to just soda water with lime or lemon. its crisp, refreshing -- and counts toward your cups of water per day.

Mio contains propylene glycol which is one of the main ingredients in antifreeze. No thank you.

propylene glycol is considered safe for consumption by the fda and is found in numerous food products:

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=12&po=14

it is also an ingredient in antifreeze - in the animal safe antifreeze that doesn't kill pets when ingested. perfectly safe for moderate consumption. it's also an ingredient in antiperspirant/deodorant, as well as many other cosmetics... and as quoted on the following website, "There have been claims made that propylene glycol is an inappropriate ingredient for cosmetics and foods because it can also be used in products (such as antifreeze) which one would not want to consume. Such observations are well-intended but ultimately not very informative. It is ethylene glycol, for example, which is a more common ingredient in antifreeze and which is, in fact, highly toxic."

http://www.tomsofmaine.com/research/ingredients/ingredient-detail/propylene-glycol

Mio contains propylene glycol which is one of the main ingredients in antifreeze. No thank you.

propylene glycol is considered safe for consumption by the fda and is found in numerous food products:

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=12&po=14

it is also an ingredient in antifreeze - in the animal safe antifreeze that doesn't kill pets when ingested. perfectly safe for moderate consumption. it's also an ingredient in antiperspirant/deodorant, as well as many other cosmetics... and as quoted on the following website, "There have been claims made that propylene glycol is an inappropriate ingredient for cosmetics and foods because it can also be used in products (such as antifreeze) which one would not want to consume. Such observations are well-intended but ultimately not very informative. It is ethylene glycol, for example, which is a more common ingredient in antifreeze and which is, in fact, highly toxic."

http://www.tomsofmaine.com/research/ingredients/ingredient-detail/propylene-glycol

Feel free to ingest crappy chemicals into your body. I choose not to.

You can do what you choose for yourself, but do not spout off ignorance. There are many products that are just fine to consume. You have no basis for saying this product is 'bad' unless you are a scientist that has researched the product.

Just because the FDA has said it's "considered safe" doesn't mean it is. They rely on studies by the food manufacturers themselves to make these determinations. The FDA and USDA leadership is also a revolving door of food industry executives, helping push BigAg's agenda.

15 of the most pointless foods in the supermarket: http://www.rodale.com/worst-food - Mio is first on the list.

If it's not coffee or water, I drink Jasmine Green Tea (Teas' Tea brand). Refreshing and nice light flavor.
If you want bubbles, I recommend a seltzer bottle and you can by the CO2 cartridges in bulk.

Years ago in my teens I quit soda, as I was drinking so much of it.. However, I replaced it with sweet tea. Over 10 years later (about 3 years ago) I picked it back up. I just liked it during a meal .If it wasn't soda it was sweet tea. I would drinnk a lot during the weekend to make a mixed drink and it was just getting to be too much. In the beginning of February I stopped cold turkey again and have not had any in 23 days. I have an app that counts up the days I have started doing something, so seeing that every day reminds me how far I've come when I want to drink a soda.

I stopped cold turkey, but I did have a hard time finding something else to drink. MIO flavored is nothing but junk to me. It leaves the worst aftertaste in my mouth and I find it revolting after a while. The MIO Energy was the same. It has pretty much what my B complex vitamin had. Instead, I started putting lemon in my water and a ton of ice. It gave the water flavor and had no sugar and was still pure water. Plus, lemon has great benefits as well for the system. I did this for quite a while and then just started drinking plain water. Now, I fill up a 96 oz jug at night and put it in the fridge to have first thing in the morning and I carry it with me all day. They also have these bottles where you can put fruit in it to infuse your water. I think fresh fruit juice in water is a great way to sub soda and sugary drinks, but really, lemon in water really helped also.

It's super hard giving up soda, but it has its benefits. For example, my cravings for sweets has really gone down a lot since stopping soda. I still eat a sweet hear and there, but when I do it tastes so super sweet that I won't eat it all. It takes some work, but once you get used to not drinking it you may get cravings, but you won't want to start drinking it and ruin your progress.

Elle

STAY AWAY FROM THINGS LIKE MIO AND OTHER SUBSTITUTES TO FLAVOR YOUR WATER. Seriously you are pumping your body with artificial everything and some very dangerous dyes and chemicals. Just drink the water, seriously, just drink the water. If you need different tastes, drink things like teas (A MILLION FRICKEN FLAVORS AND KINDS BOTH HOT AND COLD), black coffee(and i mean black not with sugar and cream), or carbonated water like pieere, I don't understand why people who are trying to get healthy, lose weight eating fake foods and substitutes that are passed off as "healthy" but trust me are far from. Don't fill your body with **** when you are trying to lose weight, put only good into your body and your body will look great!

If anyone in interested in sweetening your drinks, why not try Stevia - which is a natural plant based sweetener, and is not an artificial sweetener.

I quit soda or pop as you like to call it in January of 2012. I was only going to do it for one month. Once I was off of it for 2 weeks I couldn't believe how much better I felt. My carb cravings reduced by over half. I attribute it to the artificial sweeteners. So, if you're going to do this make sure you don't get any artificial sweeteners. Mio probably has it. I did have withdrawals from my delicious diet coke. The fizz, the flavor, just something other than water to drink. What I got use to and love now is tea. I do also enjoy water now when it had started to become my arch enemy. I like to get carbonated water with lime in it occasionally. I had to find teas I love. That took some experimenting. I drink it iced and hot.

Mio contains propylene glycol which is one of the main ingredients in antifreeze. No thank you.

Propylene glycol is a food additive. They started putting it in antifreeze to replace ethylene glycol because propylene glycol is non-toxic. BTW, WATER is also a main ingredient in antifreeze, so you might want to avoid that, too.

Ok, I can't, I just can't. I tried to leave this alone, but I can't. EVERY DAMN THING YOU STICK IN YOUR MOUTH IS A CHEMICAL. There are PLENTY of "natural" products out there that are 1000 times worse for you than the chemicals in MIO and the like (use of hyperbole to make a point). If you had taken one SINGLE semester of organic chemistry, that ingredients list wouldn't bother you in the least, but since you CLEARLY haven't MAYBE you should not make bombastic comments about topics for which you have not been properly educated.

Thank you,
A science teacher

I mix about 145mL of apple juice with a can of club soda. It gives me the fizz and bite of soda but way less sugar and chemicals.

Less chemicals? What do you think makes the fizz in club soda? Chemicals. What do you think makes the water in club soda? Chemicals. What do you think apple juice is made of? Chemicals.