Take that, red bull bonces!!!

  • III@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I thought that the sugar industry worked really hard to ensure they didn’t have to show a daily % amount on the right across from the grams listing. I have never seen a % there before. Crazy.

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    5 hours ago

    The slogan, “RedBull gives you Wings” needs an asterisk. It only applies to those who are grated into heaven after they die of diabeetus

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    6 hours ago

    You probably shouldn’t look at the sugar in the sweet tea from McDonald’s then…

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    7 hours ago

    “Nah im not tired or insomniac i just love consuming 3 cans of bull piss every single day it tastes just good”

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    9 hours ago

    There are few drinks that I can’t stand the smell of but Redbull just smells fucking disgusting.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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    13 hours ago

    It’s meant to be something you drink before an intensive activity. having some sugar in it is a good addition, not a bad one. 110 calories per can is nothing, you can burn them by walking a few km.

    But there’s always some derivative that comes with 0 calories.

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      11 hours ago

      So since the majority of consumers that drink red bull are sedentary, you’re saying Red Bull would be fine with losing 90% of their market share because their product was intended to be used before intense activity?

      Or are they perhaps marketing to exactly that segment because they are as callous as people say?

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      12 hours ago

      Ughhhhhhhh the “aCtuAlLy” crowd. Give it a rest. You know this is illogical at best. Just because you’ve retained the commercial talking points doesn’t mean you understand the underlying situation.

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      12 hours ago

      “Some sugar”

      This piss is 26% sugar my guy. And WHO recommends not to ingest more than 25g of added sugar per day.

      I’m sorry, but your comment is so stupid it hurts my feelings.

    • Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      13 hours ago

      Yeah, but how many kids do you see nowadays on the way to school with a can in their hand? It may be intended for that, and yeah a lot of people do use it for that (exercise), but there’s also a lot of people who don’t use it for that.

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        13 hours ago

        That’s 100% their shitty decision. But even if you don’t buy a red bull for exercise, it’s still only 110 calories. The can says 53% sugar, which is about the same as the amount of carbs in bread. You can easily eat more calories with bread.

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          13 hours ago

          Oh I 100% agree it’s their poor decision. The only thing I would say is just because the % of sugar is the same, it doesn’t necessarily mean the same quantity. For example, this white bread company claims only 3 grams of sugar in a loaf of bread (obviously it won’t be the same in every loaf, though I’ve never heard of a loaf of bread containing 36 grams of sugar - though I could be wrong).

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            12 hours ago

            The percentage isn’t a percent of the can, it’s a percent of your “Daily Value” which is how much an average person is supposed to have in a day. 100% means it contains the amount you are supposed to have in a day. Not that the can is 100% sugar. So a soda that has 50% DV has the same amount of sugar as bread that has a serving marked as 50% DV.

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              12 hours ago

              That’s interesting, I hadn’t known that. But given the maximum daily intake of sugar is around 40 g, I guess that would make sense mathematically. May I ask, is that percentage purely in terms of mass, or is it also in terms of calories?

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      11 hours ago

      I personally like the sugar free version better. Especially the summer sudachi lime flavor

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      13 hours ago

      Tastes disgusting tho, sugar free versions of most energy drink flavours suck. A few that are sugar free from the start are good though.

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            10 hours ago

            When dudes cum in your mouth? Have fun with that bro, I support your right to that.

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              8 hours ago

              Hah, I got a hunch I’ve seen your nick elsewhere before, ofc you’re the lukewarm piss dude. Woke up on the wrong side of your mom today did ya?

              • bedwyr@piefed.ca
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                8 hours ago

                Wtf, you are talking gibberish. Yeah the people stoking racial hatred are the good guys huh? Got it. No one agrees with you outside your circle jerk here. How much do you suck? A lot.

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                  8 hours ago

                  Wtf, you are talking gibberish. Yeah the people stoking racial hatred are the good guys huh? Got it. No one agrees with you outside your circle jerk here. How much do you suck? A lot.

                  Are you always this salty or is that only when you think about guys cum in your mouth?

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    20 hours ago

    Is this for the entire 330ml can? If so, that’s ok. Usually juices have 15g/100ml, so I guess RedBull is healthier (not as unhealthy).

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    22 hours ago

    The more infuriating part are sugar free energy drinks. Per definition they don’t have any energy in them.