The “caramel coloring” used to color all the top cola brands isn’t natural caramel coloring at all. Instead, it’s made by reacting sugars with ammonia and sulfites at high temperatures. This reaction results in the formation of 2-methylimidazole and 4-methylimidazole, both of which are chemicals documented by the U.S. government to cause cancer in mammals.
it seems like everything we do today causes cancer… oh well
Well, if I learned anything from my AP Environmental “Science” class, its that everthing causes cancer in high-enough dose/long enough time in contact, and that water+ dirt = mud
And what elese is fun is whether or not Pepsi, or the other caremel add-ins are “real” or not.
Great post. We don’t need to ban Coke or Pepsi – anyone who ingests these poisons knows they’re guzzling a chemical soup. Its like the old excuse about not knowing smoking harms the body. Everyone knew.
To approach it from another angle, no one is proposing we ban paint because drinking it could lead to cancer. Take responsibility for what you shove down your gullet.
Everything I’v been able to find indicates that isnt true. Aspartame CAN cause cancer, but only at inhumanly large quantities. The worst effect I can find is that it stimulates appatite, so you eat more, which would seem to defeat the purpose of drinking diet pops. But I mostly drink them for the taste(non-diet pops leave my throat feeling sticky and weird).
Now, there are people who are alergic to the stuff, and in these particular indviduals it can cause headaches and nausia(my sister was one such person), but that doesnt seem to be an issue for me.