Coca Cola versus Fruit Juice!
Question: from Michael
I was having a discussion with someone last week who was arguing that there is just as much sugar in fruit juice as there is in a can of regular Coca Cola, and that as such, it meant that both the juice and cola were just as fattening for you. Is this true?
Answer: from Warren
They could well be right! The amount of sugar in fruit juice will vary depending upon the fruit being used...
Because of this I could not say if there is as much sugar in fruit juice as what there is in an equivilant amount of Coca Cola...but, fruit juice will definitely help you put on weight.
I personally rarely drink fruit juice but I eat a lot of whole fruit in which the sugars are combined with the fiber. Even by eating a LOT of fruit you will still not consume as much sugar as you do in fruit juice drinks...also you avoid the preservatives.
Fruit juices are not as good as the promoters would have you believe!
With regard to Coca Cola...because of all the other stuff in it, your intake of this should be limited to a splash of it with your rum! :)
Warren Matthews
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see http://mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.categories.nutrition.index.htmL#9
Foe more startling information, see also:
See http://www.moondragon.org/nutrition/waterorcoke.html
COKE (COCA-COLA) FACTS
1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for sumptuous brown gravy.
8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.
2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!
Now the question is, would YOU like a glass of water or coke?
I make my own juice in a blender.I put 2 large navel oranges 1 Red Delicious apple; they are supposed to have the most nutrition, pineapple, papaya and either a ripe pear or a banana, to sweeten it. Then to get the blender started with a little liquid, I add a cup or more of grape/cranberry juice. I don't know the sugar content of this mixture, but it is good and healthy. It is so thick that I have to add water to it, or you may have to eat it instead of drink it.
Though the post by Raewyn is amusing, some of the "facts" just don't work.
...Leaving a nail in phosphoric acid will have little effect on the steel from an acidic point of view.
... However, if there is a significant amount of phosphoric acid (a prohibited ingredient under the foor regulations in Australia and NZ at least), then it will fix rust as ferric oxide + phosphoric acid = Ferric phospahte, which is inert and water soluable. An excellent way to prepare steel for painting - but highly unlikely to be in Coke.
... T bone steaks ... it must have been the T-bone from a mouse. Sorry, does NOT compute. Baloney!
...If they put in citric acid - which is an allowed acid under the food regs - why would they wish to put in an organic acid.
What nonsense! Quite typical of the nonsense that is promulgated on the web ... and forgetful that at 2.8pH it is away less acid (about that of some white wines) than the one molarity hydrochloric acid in our gut.
I don't drink coke - not even in my rum Warren, and hold no candle for that company's products (none of which I drink), but really ......!
A nail in high concentrated phosphoric acid might well disolve however. Not in Coke though.
http://snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp
As to the stains in the toilet--I'm willing to try anything! Our stains are not iron, but they are certainly tenacious. I'll let you know if coke does us any good.
Sometimes you can get a drink called a phosphate at an old-fashioned soda fountain. The soda jerk puts a few drops of phosphoric acid in a glass of fruit drink. Pretty tasty. The flavor is different from that of the citric acid in the fruit. Sharper.
Healthy human stomach PH is around 1.5 - 2.0 and CAN indeed disolve a nail.
But Coke ? hahaha