diet soda? Yay or nay?
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Diet Pepsi Cherry is a big "YAY!" from me.
Also diet orange, diet root beer and diet 7-up!
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I don't care for it. probably should have more water than anything else....so maybe make sure your water number is higher than soda!3
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hobbitses333 wrote: »Let's look at how it is made...genetically modified E. coli are cultivated in tanks and fed so that they can poop the proteins that contain the aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid segment used to make aspartame. The bacteria poo is then collected and treated in a process called methylation (addition of methane based molecules to the process) in order to produce the sweetener.
What do you think? Yummmm! Genetically modified E. coli Bacteria poo and methyl!
Manufactured food-like products are something I like to work to avoid. I am not rigid on it and do still indulge once in a while. A case of diet ginger ale lasts me about a month at home..some things just go down better with a little pop.
Too much of anything can kill you..even water~!
You lost me at the part where you claimed that bacteria are capable of pooping.7 -
hobbitses333 wrote: »Let's look at how it is made...genetically modified E. coli are cultivated in tanks and fed so that they can poop the proteins that contain the aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid segment used to make aspartame. The bacteria poo is then collected and treated in a process called methylation (addition of methane based molecules to the process) in order to produce the sweetener.
What do you think? Yummmm! Genetically modified E. coli Bacteria poo and methyl!
Manufactured food-like products are something I like to work to avoid. I am not rigid on it and do still indulge once in a while. A case of diet ginger ale lasts me about a month at home..some things just go down better with a little pop.
Too much of anything can kill you..even water~!
You lost me at the part where you claimed that bacteria are capable of pooping.
The stuff all over the internet about aspartame being "bacteria feces" involves a loose interpretation of what bacteria do chemically and some poetic license in the use of the word feces/poo while describing the patent filed back in the day for the process to produce aspartame. This is the linked source they all used:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0036258.html
It's a great way to word it though if you want to creep out people who will never look into it themselves.9 -
Like some other posters, I've been drinking diet sodas since the '60s. I've lost weight and gained weight while drinking them and haven't seen any correlation with any health or weight issues. I drink a can of diet coke most days because it's a calorie-free treat and sometimes acts as a very mild appetite suppressant when I'm not really hungry but am standing with fridge door open scanning the leftovers
If you want to cut back or stop drinking them for your own reasons, that's what you should do, but I think stopping alltogether because that's what your husband wants you to do could lead to some little seeds of resentment around the subject.3 -
I vote YAY. I love coke zero and coke zero cherry. Oddly enough I find it curbs cravings.0
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hobbitses333 wrote: »Let's look at how it is made...genetically modified E. coli are cultivated in tanks and fed so that they can poop the proteins that contain the aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid segment used to make aspartame. The bacteria poo is then collected and treated in a process called methylation (addition of methane based molecules to the process) in order to produce the sweetener.
What do you think? Yummmm! Genetically modified E. coli Bacteria poo and methyl!
Manufactured food-like products are something I like to work to avoid. I am not rigid on it and do still indulge once in a while. A case of diet ginger ale lasts me about a month at home..some things just go down better with a little pop.
Too much of anything can kill you..even water~!
You lost me at the part where you claimed that bacteria are capable of pooping.
The stuff all over the internet about aspartame being "bacteria feces" involves a loose interpretation of what bacteria do chemically and some poetic license in the use of the word feces/poo while describing the patent filed back in the day for the process to produce aspartame. This is the linked source they all used:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0036258.html
It's a great way to word it though if you want to creep out people who will never look into it themselves.
It's funny how they don't point out various other things that are also created by using bacteria that have been genetically modified to produce it. Insulin, for example.8 -
Gosh, some of you guys are lightweights
I drink at least six 16.9 oz bottles of Diet Pepsi a day. As soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning, I'm headed to get ice and that first bottle. On the other hand, I don't drink coffee, tea, wine, beer or hard liquor. 4 -
hobbitses333 wrote: »Let's look at how it is made...genetically modified E. coli are cultivated in tanks and fed so that they can poop the proteins that contain the aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid segment used to make aspartame. The bacteria poo is then collected and treated in a process called methylation (addition of methane based molecules to the process) in order to produce the sweetener.
What do you think? Yummmm! Genetically modified E. coli Bacteria poo and methyl!
Manufactured food-like products are something I like to work to avoid. I am not rigid on it and do still indulge once in a while. A case of diet ginger ale lasts me about a month at home..some things just go down better with a little pop.
Too much of anything can kill you..even water~!
You lost me at the part where you claimed that bacteria are capable of pooping.
The stuff all over the internet about aspartame being "bacteria feces" involves a loose interpretation of what bacteria do chemically and some poetic license in the use of the word feces/poo while describing the patent filed back in the day for the process to produce aspartame. This is the linked source they all used:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0036258.html
It's a great way to word it though if you want to creep out people who will never look into it themselves.
It's funny how they don't point out various other things that are also created by using bacteria that have been genetically modified to produce it. Insulin, for example.
Or natural things that are 'poop produced'
Isn't honey the vomit of bees?? - using that sort of loose interpretation.
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paperpudding wrote: »
Or natural things that are 'poop produced'
Isn't honey the vomit of bees?? - using that sort of loose interpretation.
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paperpudding wrote: »hobbitses333 wrote: »Let's look at how it is made...genetically modified E. coli are cultivated in tanks and fed so that they can poop the proteins that contain the aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid segment used to make aspartame. The bacteria poo is then collected and treated in a process called methylation (addition of methane based molecules to the process) in order to produce the sweetener.
What do you think? Yummmm! Genetically modified E. coli Bacteria poo and methyl!
Manufactured food-like products are something I like to work to avoid. I am not rigid on it and do still indulge once in a while. A case of diet ginger ale lasts me about a month at home..some things just go down better with a little pop.
Too much of anything can kill you..even water~!
You lost me at the part where you claimed that bacteria are capable of pooping.
The stuff all over the internet about aspartame being "bacteria feces" involves a loose interpretation of what bacteria do chemically and some poetic license in the use of the word feces/poo while describing the patent filed back in the day for the process to produce aspartame. This is the linked source they all used:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0036258.html
It's a great way to word it though if you want to creep out people who will never look into it themselves.
It's funny how they don't point out various other things that are also created by using bacteria that have been genetically modified to produce it. Insulin, for example.
Or natural things that are 'poop produced'
Isn't honey the vomit of bees?? - using that sort of loose interpretation.
Not to mention that yeast farts are what make bread rise and wine and beer have a kick.4
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