While the flavors may vary – from Cola to Lemon-lime, Grape and Sasparella – most sodas are in fact very similar. Most sodas contain five common ingredients, which are detailed in the following chemical analysis of what ingredients go into the average soda, their purposes, uses, implications and other helpful health information.
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obviously soda is generally bad, but you guys are using scare-tactics and pseudo-science to get your point across. at least provide sources and studies for these supposed "possible health effects". studies go both ways on a lot of your "effects"
PPK, this is not a scare tactic at all… If you knew better, it is simply to answer all possible logical questions about the substances that most of us didn't even know about… Daily burn is about being self aware, not for scare tactics. You should be ashamed in yourself for your comment.
I agree that links to studies is absolutely necessary. But regardless, thanks for posting this. The visual is nice, digestible (no pun intended) and key to help spread the word.
This is garbage. Coca-cola isn't exactly a substance that you can break down into an abundance of harmful constituents like tobacco, and what you did list as the health effects are a very selective take. I'm not going to defend soda, but at least have the dignity to be fair about your statements. (i.e. caffeine has been known to cause musculoskeletal toxicity? At what prevalence and at what doses?)
Actually Gerry, caffeine has been one of many causes for muscoloskeletal toxicity. Do you know how? Your mouth (and your teeth especially) are the first to touch the caffeine in which teeth are indirectly related to your bones which will have a domino effect of too much intake. How do you think teeth get stained so badly from soda/pop, coffee and alcohol? Your teeth absorb. Every one's bodies are different, so do go and ask at what prevalence and dose, is rather irrelevant to the typical "average human" count of toxicity.
It would be nice if references were used for the above information on sodas.
My friend cleaned my coin collection with cola. She left them in the cola for a day. Now there nice and sparkly.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/6/963
My doctor confirmed the above statements and quoted studies in his answer so I believe the facts to be true. If you need the studies to back up the comments don't bitch about the person not providing them, just go look them up. The facts don't appear to be difficult to confirm. Yes, I still drink my soda (one every day) but I use the sugar formulation and not the HFCS. I also supplement daily with high quality minerals because the phosphoric acid does leach minerals out of the body (again according to my doctor and he is the one who told me which minerals to take although he still wants me off the soda).
"Don't bitch about the person not providing them"? Ha! When writing anything purporting to give scientific information, it is the responsibility and duty of the author to provide sources. It's not our job – we're not making the claims. The onus of proof lies on the person making the claim.
This is absolutely laughable, there is a flaw within the first line of the supposed "chemical analysis" of carbonated water. The actual name for H2CO3 is CARBONIC ACID and is not CARBONATED WATER. A more accurate description would have been (H2O+CO2 ⇌ H2CO3) because only a small amount of CO2 bonds with the H2O to create carbonic acid. The mistake or misinterpretation is that dissolved doesn't mean chemically bonded. as for the rest of this article, it's just another pseudo science scare tactic and should be taken with a grain of salt (witch will also kill you) EPIC FAIL.
So? The actual name of Water is Dihydrogen Monoxide, but I don't see you calling it that anytime soon. Besides, they're calling it Carbonated Water because if you read the list of ingredients on a soda can, it says carbonated water, not carbonic acid.
You missed my point completely ,I know H2O is water (hydrogen oxide) what I am saying is "carbonated water" differs from "carbonic acid" This article and many other sores will have you believe carbonated water is H2CO3, and this is not correct.
There is a small amount of carbonic acid in carbonated water but not all of the carbonated water is carbonic acid. the CO2 (carbon dioxide) is dissolved into NOT BONDED with the H2O (water, hydrogen oxide). Don't let Wikipedia be your only teaching tool. I don't want to argue I just know chemistry. My point was dissolved is not chemically bonded.
It's amazing how daft people are. Thanks james, this is why we need science education., to stop propaganda like this website.
I read the comments just to make sure someone pointed out that carbonated water is not H2CO3, so thanks for that James. I'm just… shocked… really, shocked, that such an elementary mistake was written, approved, and posted. It's so f'ing basic. Christ. Not to be too hard on the author but this is really embarrassing. You can't just add up the… sigh, never mind.
"Don't let Wikipedia be your only teaching tool. I don't want to argue I just know chemistry."
+1 welcome to the dumbing down of the populus. suddenly everyone thinks they can understand any topic under the sun with a quick visit to wikipedia
There's actually several flaws already in the literal first line of the content – none of the flavor names should be capitalized, and sarsaparilla/sasparilla is misspelled, so the fact that there are much more serious scientific errors in there when they can't even get a spell-checker or proof-reader shouldn't really come as a shock. Also while HFCS is one of the five most common ingredients in AMERICAN soda, America is not actually the entire world; the rest of the world generally isn't in the pocket of the corn lobby.
I work for a major soda co. The people who batch the soda who are Quality control technicians . Hardly drink the soda because of how bad it really is. I drink soda from time to time. To much isn't good for you. Coke will destroy paint on a car though. U do the evaluation ?
Coke is evil
And people wonder why I dislike soda so much…
I was pretty shocked the day my mother told me I could remove the rust stains in my toilet with a can of Coke! There just isn't something right about that….
Ignoring all the pseudoscience and misinformation in this article, I personally think they missed an great opportunity to focus on the beverage that more dieters and weight-losers generally drink—DIET SODA. During a weight-maintenance phase about 7 years ago I developed a 6-a-day diet soda habit. Maybe 3-4 months later, I started developing symptoms not unlike MS or Parkinsons. I was so worried that I saw a neurologist and had a series of MRIs. He definitely observed the effects like slurred speech, tremors and random muscle twitching, but couldn't see anything definitive on the MRI. Meanwhile, back on my diet, in an effort to eliminate caffeine I cut out the diet soda. To my shock the symptoms were mostly gone in a few weeks, and I haven't touched the poisonous stuff since. Just my personal experience….take it for what it's worth. Oh, and I also realized that it's mostly the bubbles which I enjoy about soda, so I now drink seltzer and sparkling mineral water in abundance with no ill effects!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm soda