Interesting but I get the feeling the kind of products may be similar to others at that level? Or will they?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... ating.html

Their idea of a new nutritional childrens drink will be along the lines of some suger-free orange squash, with a few cheap and nasty synthetic vitamins added and a load of sweeteners. Stick a picture of an orange on the front with "sugar free" + "all the recommended daily nutrition a child needs" plastered all over it.

They'll add calcium for sure.

Better than soda for sure though?

Not that either of them are any good for healthy foods, but Pepsi are moderately better than CocaCola... Pepsi stopped adding phosphoric acid to most of their carbonated drinks as an acidity regulator when studies came out demonstrating how horrid that stuff can be... Coke just said fcuk it it's cheap, lets carry on!

Dtlv74 wrote:Not that either of them are any good for healthy foods, but Pepsi are moderately better than CocaCola... Pepsi stopped adding phosphoric acid to most of their carbonated drinks as an acidity regulator when studies came out demonstrating how horrid that stuff can be... Coke just said fcuk it it's cheap, lets carry on!

i think they have realised its a huge market you just gota look at lucozades new range and how popular its got in gyms.....

kp1512 wrote:

Dtlv74 wrote:Not that either of them are any good for healthy foods, but Pepsi are moderately better than CocaCola... Pepsi stopped adding phosphoric acid to most of their carbonated drinks as an acidity regulator when studies came out demonstrating how horrid that stuff can be... Coke just said fcuk it it's cheap, lets carry on!

i think they have realised its a huge market you just gota look at lucozades new range and how popular its got in gyms.....

I saw quite a few people buy that lucozade protein stuff in a vending machine at the the gym, bought one just to read the label and was shocked as to how crap the stuff is! It's like they did no research into the product.

Marketing mate. Its a very powerful and influential name....Ive read pretty much all of the labels at my gym and you would think they would have maybe chosen replacement ingredients for some - but they do what makes them money and do it well........it is afterall up to the consumer to seek knowledge and awareness

Agreed it's all marketing and no substance. It surprises me that the lucozade stuff has taken off at all... but I train at home, and alomst all my training talk is with you guys here who don't fall for that crap. I often forget how less clued up many people are.

RoB wrote:I saw quite a few people buy that lucozade protein stuff in a vending machine at the the gym, bought one just to read the label and was shocked as to how crap the stuff is! It's like they did no research into the product.

Yeah I looked at the nutrition on their site . Speaking of no research into something, my brother was ill with hep C a few yeasr back (he had to have interferon treatment etc), and as part of the illness had lost a lot of weight. To help him regain it, he was given on prescription weight gainer drinks - the ones recommended by the NHS. 87% HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!! Not only is that stuff generally shit, but it's particularly bad for overloading the liver!! Was disgusted!

Dtlv74 wrote:Agreed it's all marketing and no substance. It surprises me that the lucozade stuff has taken off at all... but I train at home, and alomst all my training talk is with you guys here who don't fall for that crap. I often forget how less clued up many people are.

RoB wrote:I saw quite a few people buy that lucozade protein stuff in a vending machine at the the gym, bought one just to read the label and was shocked as to how crap the stuff is! It's like they did no research into the product.

Yeah I looked at the nutrition on their site . Speaking of no research into something, my brother was ill with hep C a few yeasr back (he had to have interferon treatment etc), and as part of the illness had lost a lot of weight. To help him regain it, he was given on prescription weight gainer drinks - the ones recommended by the NHS. 87% HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!! Not only is that stuff generally shit, but it's particularly bad for overloading the liver!! Was disgusted!

Oh dear! probably quite useful for putting on weight though. Destroy your peripheral insulin sensitivity, force leptin insufficiency in the and doesn't satiated you at all. But yeah, that seems like a bad mix with hepatitis!