{"id":6157,"date":"2004-05-05T07:03:57","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/05\/05\/same-song-forty-seventh-verse.html"},"modified":"2004-05-05T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T14:03:57","slug":"same_song_forty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/05\/same_song_forty.html","title":{"rendered":"Same song, forty-seventh verse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coke and Pepsi are rejiggering their soda lines again with new semi-diet drinks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new drinks contain the standard high-fructose corn syrup that sweetens regular soda but in smaller amounts. The corn syrup is supplemented with Splenda, a no-calorie, no-carbohydrate sweetener made from sugar.
\nThe result is a soda with fewer calories than regular but more than no-cal. For instance, Pepsi says a 12-ounce can of Edge has 20 grams each of sugar and carbohydrates, and 70 calories, compared with regular’s 41 grams each of sugar and carbohydrates, and 150 calories.<\/p>\n

Actually, I remain quite happy with Pepsi One — but, being someone who drinks their sodas with plenty of ice, I find even totally zero-cal diet soda somewhat palatable. And it’s nice to be able to drink it and not have to count calories. Which the half-diet sodas won’t give me, because, really, 70 calories is still something you should pay attention to.<\/p>\n

Now, if they did 20 <\/i>calories, that might be pretty spiffy.<\/p>\n

But I’m sure that’s coming. As surely as the sun rises and sets, soda companies are unable to figure out what to do in the vast waist-land (so to speak) between full-sugar sodas and diet sodas. I doubt this particular scheme will work (“It’s like all the dandilions, but half the size each!”), but I’m not particularly well-known for judging popular taste.<\/p>\n

We’ll see.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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