Take that, red bull bonces!!!
That is a lot of sugar, but to be fair, go to your local convenience store (if you’re in the US) and look at the back of just about any drink for sale aside from bottled water and you’ll be hard pressed to find drinks that aren’t just as bad.
To be clear, that means they are all terrible for you. I think that’s pretty much universally true of anything you can buy in a gas station.
You don’t need to be in a gas station to buy garbage. Most of the middle of the grocery store is garbage.
FYI a most sodas are 50-80 grams of sugar.
Hey hey now, leave my bath salts alone.
Soda isn’t meant for human consumption, but the marketing is strong
To be fair, if you look at sugar contents, even the “healthy” fruit juices are filled with them. In fact, many argue that a fruit juice is not as healthy as they tell us because while you get some of the good nutrients of fruit in them (when they are 100% and not from concentrate), you also get a huge intake of sugar that goes quickly into your blood. When you eat fruit, you take the same amount of sugar but you need to digest the fruit first, making it slower to absorb. It’s a good practice to drink a fruit juice accompanied by something to eat so you don’t get the sugar rush.
Omfg, this whole comment section is actually infuriating. Y’all motherfuckers need
jesusLiamAspartame is fine, sugar won’t hurt you. Just drink in moderation, and you’re golden.
Stop spreading FUD.
Amazing how I’ve single handedly set this entire community on fire with this lol. I shall have to learn from this experience and do it all again.
It’s 2026, facts are just a simple search away for when you hopefully give up on bro science from influencers
https://news.ki.se/how-aspartame-affects-blood-vessels-in-mice
https://www.who.int/news/item/14-07-2023-aspartame-hazard-and-risk-assessment-results-released
Did… did you read them, “bro”? Because they’re making my point, not yours.
The mice were fed an exclusive high fat high carb diet containing double the amount of aspartame that you’d find in a zero sugar drink. They’re mice. Scaling that amount up to match mg/kg in a human would be an ASTRONOMICAL amount of aspartame consumed at every meal, for 12 weeks. Even then, the effects in mice were not even exclusive to the aspartame group. ETA: did the math: It’s 5.2 MILLION cans of coke zero. Every meal. For 12 weeks.
The second one rated it as 2B, or the weakest link, and it says right there: “JECFA reaffirmed the acceptable daily intake of 40 mg/kg body weight.” ETA: Just to put that 2B rating into perspective, shift work, as in working unusual hours, is rated as 2A, which is higher. Magnetic fields have a rating of 2B.
Your last study is interesting but far from conclusive. It found a correlation, which is not causation. Even the author suspects “chronic high intake” of being the culprit.
Stop spreading FUD. Drink in moderation, and you’re golden.
While I fully agree with your comments on aspartame and have read these posted articles, I would have to disagree with you on the regular sugar part. The more we are researching sugar and its connection with heart health, the lower the recommended daily intake becomes. One of the reasons it is in fact still so HIGH of a recommendation is due to the sugary drink lobby going against the American heart association (as well as almost every physician organization) for the FDA recommendations.
But yes, in moderation you are fine. Just not as freely with the moderation as they make you think you have. This redbull is claiming 26g of sugar is only 53% of you limit, when the AHA limit is only 36g for men (and 25g for women!). So, bad in moderation.
Yeah. It’s not over 100%. Just drink one and it’s fine.
If you can’t control yourself drink the diet version or switch to something else.
I added flavored (aspartame) carbonated waters to balance out my soda addiction. One can a day, a couple sips of the carbonated drinks, and a ton of water. Took a few years, but much healthier
you’re probably going to get enraged comments but I’m not one of those. liam is the best
As someone who grew up avoiding sugar and having to look at the back of everything this would have been relatively low in sugar compared to other products sold in that same store in my area. In the South of the US you would have a hard time finding something lower than sprite and or tea(~35g)without alternative synthetic sweeteners like aspertain and sucralose or just water and those options used to be sparce. A lot of times a convenience store would only have diet coke, unsweet tea, or water unless I was okay with 30+ grams of sugar. I’m not saying that it’s okay to have that much sugar, but it definitely seems far out of the way from some of the much lower hanging fruit. For example even Gatorade and Powerade have more sugar per package unit and those were available via vending machines IN the school. Also, pretty much every fast-food drink station makes you choose between water, unsweetened tea, or something with almost 50g of sugar when in a can.
50g??? Damn, that is bad
That was kinda the ceiling seemed like everyone was trying to avoid. So a lot of 48 and 49. But all might as well have been surge to me. …Surge had 56g a can if I recall.
Nah it’s just the total amount of the calories that is from suger. It only … hmm… only has 26g of sugars in it.
Just looked at the Mexican coke I just finished drinking 😭 39g sugar…
When you visualize it like this, it makes you think twice about grabbing that sugary beverage. Having said that, I still like a red bull here and there, and sugar free just ain’t the same.
Edit removed slop, changed pic
Um… excuse me, but isn’t Mountain Dew that pop drink in america? Why tf is Frappuccino labeled as Mountain Dew?
I didn’t notice that. Probably slop. Here’s a better image
Here’s one of the total amount of sugar in a Monster Zero Sugar.
They use a DNA damage agent instead. Better?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260912220107.htm
And we wonder why colon cancer is exploding under 30.
Interesting read. Thank you. But the article didn’t really conclude anything specific about the genotoxicity of the sweetener outside direct cell exposure to a related chemical.
Fair enough, although it would be better with numerical measurements
Makes me wonder which ones taste good if you turn the sugar into ethanol. Apple juice does, what about others?
Worry not, some Internet guy did it with mountain dew.
Hmm, according to this graphic 7 == 9 == 10 > 14. I see LLMs still can’t do math
Yeah, I fucking hate the post AI Internet. I used to be able to find the relevant image when I searched it up, not AI garbage.
Mexican coke
Identical to any other coke.
actually according to their website it’s 27g of sugars. What I found even funnier (or worse) though is this
Makes it look like RB has less sugar than juice, but we’re comparing 100ml of the bull to 250ml of juice. FFS
Possibly two different people rounded it differently.
I just got the stats off this page on their website
Yeah it’s not good when big companies like that make such misleading comparisons
They’re comparing serving sizes. There are 100ml cans of red bull. But if I asked you for a cup of apple juice, and you put just a 100ml cup in front of me, I’d ask you where the fuck the rest of it is.
but it’s only one gram per ml! Diet!
Only if you drink 100ml though. I believe a standard can had 2-3 times that amount
What about Turaine and Caffeine ? Also compare it to natural fruit juice without sugar and added preservatives…etc
Those numbers are about right for the sugar in freshly pressed apple juice tbh. That is why you can get quite a bit of alcohol when you make scrumpy.
Well let’s have a look at the quantities of caffeine and Turaine of red bull and compare, shall we? Here, have a look at this: https://www.redbull.com/us-en/energydrink/products/red-bull-energy-drink-ingredients-list
Wait why are you not drinking red bull zero
Because it’s disgusting. The aftertaste and the way it coats my mouth is just nasty.
Fair. I actually prefer zero to sugar red bull. Every body is different!
That’s how I feel about the regular one. Locarb RB/Monster are my go tos
Every person’s mouth is different, I can’t drink anything with artificial sweeteners without feeling kinda gross afterwards. I stick to cane sugar sodas as much as I can. Kinda easy since I work at a soda factory that exclusively uses cane sugar. Ill mix our in-house energy with orange cream soda and oh my that shits good.
All zero drinks are disgusting and I have no idea why people drink that shit. If you don’t want to get fat, don’t drink soda. Very simple.
You can rip the sucralose from my cold dead hands. Keep your disgusting corn sugar.
You can rip the sucralose from my cold dead hands.
Look I’m of the opinion that we’re all gonna die and if I’m drinking energy drinks regularly, it’s not cause I am aiming to live a healthy life.
But don’t all those zero calorie, alternate sweeteners also apparently cause heart problems and other stuff as well?
Sugar causes far more harm than sweeteners.
The article you linked specifically discusses how the findings of the study don’t translate to living organisms and that there is no evidence that levels found in food are harmful.
I would prefer to drink something without any sweetness at all than drink something with of this sweetener substitute. Damn, give me a salty drink before an artificial sweetener one.
Some people don’t mind or like how it tastes.
No reason to get upset about what other people enjoy.Pop and juice are easy ways to consume huge quantities of calories faster than you expect, but saying you need to eschew flavor if you want to not get fat is silly.
Feel like your second point contradicts the discussion considering that stimulants like caffeine tend to be appetite suppressants. Red bull zero would prob help you get skinny if anything (but idk any studies so don’t take my word for it, also you’ll die at 50 from a heart attack lmao)
My philosophy is that I don’t want to become accustomed to super-sweet everything. Because then I will crave sugar. So artificial sweeteners avoid the sugar now but they make me accustomed to wanting more sweetness in everything, which will lead to more sugar consumption later.
What do I drink? Espresso with 8oz milk (no sugar), or water, or unsweetened iced tea with maybe a splash of sweet tea on top to take away the dryness feeling. At least 5:1 ratio unsweet to sweet.
I have the same lifestyle with almost no candy or soda. Sometimes cinnamon buns though. I feel that on the rare occasions I really want to eat something sweet, I will go for a proper authentic one that taste great.
Looks like my bowl of sugar cubes for breakfast is back on the table.
What… the hell… has happened… to my comments section???
39 grams of sugar in a 12 oz can of Coke.
You can just drink the sugar free one and get alzheimers from the aspartame instead.
correlation
always equals causation
This is why pirates can cure global warming
Yes
If you want to make a claim against aspartame, go for the cancer claim. It’s proven and accepted by the WHO, and many people consume beyond the threshold accepted to cause cancer (something like a few cans of soft drink per day IIRC)
What? Aspartame is classified as a possible carcinogen, but mostly to encourage further research. There’s an old rat study that claimed to show an increase in variois cancers, but it had a weirdly cancer-free control group and used levels far in excess of “a few cans per day”. AFAIK, no human studies have ever shown any significant correlation. It definitely hasn’t been “proven and accepted by the WHO”.
https://www.who.int/news/item/14-07-2023-aspartame-hazard-and-risk-assessment-results-released
Possibly carcinogenic with an ADI of zero to 40 mg/kg per day with three high quality (although limited, because there are not yet enough studies to definitively prove beyond chance) evidence for liver cancer in humans
Sory, I wasn’t aware comments in a shitpost community were graded for factual accuracy. I will be sure to be better in the future to appease our teminally online overlords 🙏
Mfw I notice what community this thread is in
The slogan, “RedBull gives you Wings” needs an asterisk. It only applies to those who are grated into heaven after they die of diabeetus
It actually gives you wiiings. Which apparently they do to avoid false advertisement or some shit?
This comment made my shit night
“Nah im not tired or insomniac i just love consuming 3 cans of bull piss every single day it tastes just good”Coca cola and Dr Pepper both have 40g sugar in a can
Heck orange juice is like 35g per serving
Note that there’s also nuance in the sort of sugar.
Orange Juice has the natural sugars of the fruit, which is at least less of an issue than the refined sugars added to other sorts of drinks.
Eating the orange seems to be healthier than drinking the juice, but it seems like drinking the juice isn’t too bad either, presumably as long as you don’t overdo it.
Fruit juice sugar is almost entirely fructose, thus the name; the reason juice is healthy for you and pop isn’t is that juice has vitamins in it
Sugar is sugar. They are entirely equally bad and good for you. They just hit different. Fructose will give you fatty liver disease for example while refined sugar won’t.
If you believe in a Christian heaven, then the original slogan is still true. They should probably just go with “Red Bull. This shit will kill you” to be more secular.
I mean, diabetes also gives you wings?
The fastest way to give lab rats diabetes is to feed them vegetable oil.
