gizmodo.com — In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don't immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
Dec 19, 2006 View in Crawl 4
ochimaruDec 19, 2006
I was very amazed by this article. I had no idea that phosphoric acid (and citrus acid, for that matter) are used to keep us from vomiting when drinking high concentrations of sugar in soda pop! Nor that so much of the sugar was converted to fat so quickly. I've really been trying to curb my soda pop intake since I read the article, but coca-cola and mountain dew are sooo addictive! It really makes you wonder how much of our "overweight" epidemic is from soda pop, in general. I've often thought the "Carbonated Beverage Industry" needs to go through the same rigors the Tobacco Industry has had to face, because soda pop is definitely AS harmful, if not MORE harmful than tobacco... in rotting our teeth, our stomachs and piling on the fat. And we all know they ADD the caffeine and sugar in to make it even more addictive to us. Now quit reading my comment and go read the article!