Coca-Cola’s Subliminal Ad Message

[Filter]

Products with artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose just taste horrible and chemical! It amazes me that people actually like the taste of it, or in any case SAY they like the taste of it.

Sometimes I think these artificial sweeteners lovers just fool themselves, besides being fooled by propaganda. 
A major brainwash around those products with artificial sweeteners is that it's good for losing weight and such. Many people believe it is healthier, I suppose, mainly because of the propaganda around such products, even though the taste of it is rather ghastly and should be dismissed by our natural senses. When you drink things like cleaning agents or other chemical products your natural reflex is to spit it out, right?

[Elizabeth]

Glen Beck is addicted to it as is a good size of the population. They put extra caffeine and other ingredients in there to addict the brain.

I agree that it tastes horrible initially but after somebody can't taste anything anymore due to diet coke ingestion - what does it matter - lol?

[Richard]

I'm surprised that people like artificial sweeteners too. I always get a metallic aftertaste and a weird headache from them.

[Filter]

Yes, it must be an addictive element that is put in such products that plays a major role as well. People who are heavy captors of diet coke, for example, are very unilateral in what they drink, I have noticed. They pretty much always choose diet coke for drink.
Where I personally tend to be rather diverse at what I drink, the diet coke addicts can only think of one single option in having something to drink.
I have seen people storing up piles of diet coke as well. They are afraid that their 'stuff' will be out of stock in the near future, perhaps? 

Nowadays artifical sweeteners are put in a lot of drinks, dairy products, sweets, in almost all pastilles and chewing gum, and that still seems to increase. So-called 'light' and 'sugar free' products are rampant nowadays.

By all means, I prefer the good old sugar over all that artificial crap. Cane sugar is not bad either, I think.

[Elizabeth]

They've got sodas made from Stevia that aren't too bad...their aftertaste is about as bad as a Diet Coke though. Interesting point about people who prefer Diet Coke as being singular, protective and acting like drug addicts!

[Richard]

By all means, I prefer the good old sugar over all that artificial crap. Cane sugar is not bad either, I think.

Cane sugar is ok as long as it's unrefined. My favorite sugar is Billington's natural dark brown sugar. This sugar is addictive if you like the taste of molasses sugar. I have to fight myself not to eat it right out of the sugar bowl.

http://www.amazon.com/Billingtons-Natural-Brown-Molasses-16-Ounce/dp/B000EA2DA6/ref=sr_1_4?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1362559566&sr=1-4&keywords=dark+brown+sugar

[Octahedron]

It can be much worse: stevia

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Temptation Hazard

The Coca-Cola Company has applied for many patents for use of a stevia-derived product, rabaudioside A, in new lines of artificially sweetened products. The sweetener has been found to be safe in nominal dietary amounts, but critics worry that consumers will consume excessive amounts of the sweetener, which could reveal unexpected effects of overuse


Read more and read the amazed  reactions:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/99571-...tevia-raw/

[DeepThought]

This is very misleading article.  Read most of the comments on that page.  And coca cola is using a Derived product.  Not the real or raw form.  If the stevia is a white powder in the store then its been processed and not real.  If its a true green color then its the raw and has not been processed.

  There has not been enough tests on the raw form except for the use of it for thousands of years.

[Filter]

That looks like sugar that is quite exclusive you've got there, Richard. It has a different vibe than the regular packages of sugar you find in the big supermarkets. 

Also after reading the article about Stevia and the comments, I think I have to conclude that there is a war going on concerning sweeteners! We all like some sweetness, so what a great tool the sweetener is to mess with us.
Oh well, confusion and manipulation are part of the nature of the game here on this blueish planet.

[Richard]

That looks like sugar that is quite exclusive you've got there, Richard. It has a different vibe than the regular packages of sugar you find in the big supermarkets. 

Most of the supermarkets carry refined white sugar and brown sugar that has been refined and molasses added to it. Some have a product called Sugar In The Raw that doesn't taste raw to me. It has a crunchy texture to it.