Ok! So it seems I have stepped on a some southerners mine fields.
I will get my coat and leave quietly.
I'm from Liverpool, and I have no idea what you're on about.
Diet fizzy drinks - risks?
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I'm from Liverpool, and I have no idea what you're on about.
Amounts depend on what you eat, but it's already found in high amounts.
What methanol which many fruits and vegetables break down to.
Simply, you've been had.
I'm from Ellesmere Port which is the poopipe exiting Runcorn which is the poopipe exiting Liverpool, and still no clue tbh.
Methanol, aspartic acid (the stuff that hurts when bitten by an ant) and formaldehyde.
Great chemicals they are to ingest.
Methanol easy to pass through the body and it's minute quantities.
Aspartic acid isn't in ant bites as far as I'm aware a subset maybe. The body requires some aspartic acid.
Formaldehyde is easily processed by the body it doesn't accumulate.
The substances you mention whilst not good for you are not in concentrations anywhere near dangerous.
For god sake we don't eat "radioactive" bananas lol.
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Potassium ring a bell???
I quit.
Lol!
I don't even...
Pure interest what do you eat?
I just want to tell you what's in it maybe improve the genetics pool in the process.
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Well, we do. But it's more of his twisted logic. they are slightly radioactive.
Bananas are high in potassium, which means they also have a small amount of potassium iosotope. However the level is so low, there is zero worry.
You get bombarded everyday by radioactivity and many other every day objects and foods are also radioactive.
Potassium is also regulated in the body, so you don't get a build up anyway.
A little research is a dangerous thing as itchy has proved in this thread.
Put in in perspective, one CT scan is equivalent to 70,000 bananas
And a lethal dose is 35,000,000 bananas in a short amount of time, due to homeostasis. And you would die of other complications before eating that many.
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Potassium ring a bell???
I quit.
WHAT THE...???
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Itchy, please tell us what you DO eat. I bet you anything that many of these scary chemicals are found in most of your diet. You just happen to be completely oblivious to it.
Already shown how blinds he is, all the things that aspartame is broken down to, he eats in other things.
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I thought for a while maybe I just had a different opinion on life to itchy.
its quite clear now that he's on crack.
its quite clear now that he's on crack.
Sorry I should have explained myself further rather than than just mocking.
Honestly I thought he would be jumping on the irradiation some countries use to remove pests not potassium.
I could be wrong but I'm under the impression everything is radioactive to an extent it's merely the type and strength that determines whether it's dangerous or not.
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Fair enough. I find the artificial sweeteners in some drinks to be much better tasting than their sugar equivalents.
It's just the people who avoid them because they read "teh kemikalz are bads" on a random website that are idiots
Mostly given them up for the "empty" calories along with a lot of juices back in the day and lost like half a stone in a few weeks. I crave an off glass of juice once in a while but can't say I miss "pop", only ever drink it if it's with a spirit.
To some people, artificial sweeteners taste bitter, or others they don't. I'm unfortunately in the group that tastes them as bitter. So I can pick them out straight away. They just make things taste nasty when added, and the frustrating thing is that they're getting put in most things now.
Pure interest have you tried other artificial sweeteners than aspartame?
I read up on it a while ago as a friend claimed she only tasted bitterness which didn't compute with me being that it's called a sweetener
.Apparently it's genetics and a slight variation in tastebuds but not all artificial sweeteners affect it so much.
For example Splenda which I think is sucrose based tastes absolutely vile to me to the extent it makes me gag yet I can drink products with aspartames all day without feeling sick.
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Yup I taste them as bitter too.
Especially evident if I go for fast food, I order full fat coke and friend orders diet.
If they dont put the little popper in sometimes I get the diet one, takes one small sip and I'm like 'oop, no that ones yours'
Then come the questions from the other party 'how can you tell? You cant taste the difference!?'
I can, very much. Other half made the mistake of putting a sweet'n'low in my coffee once, she wont do that again!
They really do taste nasty, and I can tell straight away. It's now been introduced in to pink lemonade Lucozade, and I noticed it on a flight after I bought one at the airport.
I opened it on the plane, and first sip thought "ugh this tastes like ****e", so I checked the label and it had been sullied with sweeteners.
Also, the hell is full fat coke? Coke has no fat in it.
I opened it on the plane, and first sip thought "ugh this tastes like ****e", so I checked the label and it had been sullied with sweeteners.
Also, the hell is full fat coke? Coke has no fat in it.