Sugar in Drinks

[Admiral Benbow]

This is why I want to continue drinking only water for the rest of my days.....

 

[helli]

Worrying for those who drink what is in the photo but there are many many other things to drink with little or no sugar. We don't have to restrict ourselves to pure H2O.

 

[Sally71]

Unless you’re a type 1 having a hypo, then it seems to be increasingly difficult to find drinks which contain enough sugar! In this country anyway.
But for the rest of the population I agree, it isn’t great, is it.

 

[Lily123]

Unless you’re a type 1 having a hypo, then it seems to be increasingly difficult to find drinks which contain enough sugar! In this country anyway.
But for the rest of the population I agree, it isn’t great, is it.

So true!

My cans of coke have to be brought from a bigger supermarket 10 miles away

 

[Leadinglights]

I don't recognise any of those drinks except the Coke. But plenty of choices in the UK for drinks without sugar.

 

[Admiral Benbow]

ny of those drinks except the Coke. But plenty of choices in the UK for drinks

I don't recognise any of those drinks except the Coke. But plenty of choices in the UK for drinks without sugar.

Just remember carbs turn to sugar, so you have to watch the carb content as well, and if they are in a drink, there likely isn't any fiber or protein to slow it down. So a spike will occur.

 

[Lucyr]

This is why I want to continue drinking only water for the rest of my days.....

This isn’t a British photo. It’s hard to find drinks with much sugar in them here. Plenty of diet versions available and teas coffees squashes too you don’t need to stick to water

 

[Docb]

Just remember carbs turn to sugar, so you have to watch the carb content as well, and if they are in a drink, there likely isn't any fiber or protein to slow it down. So a spike will occur.

Me being a bit of a pedant again. Carbs get converted glucose which generically is a sugar. Sugars other than glucose - such as fructose, sucrose and other 'oses - are also carbs and they get converted to glucose along with the starches.

It would be really good if anybody talking about the stuff in the blood always referred to it as glucose and not as sugar. It's technically more accurate, cannot lead to confusion and more importantly keeps old pedants like me in their box.

 

[Admiral Benbow]

Me being a bit of a pedant again. Carbs get converted glucose which generically is a sugar. Sugars other than glucose - such as fructose, sucrose and other 'oses - are also carbs and they get converted to glucose along with the starches.

It would be really good if anybody talking about the stuff in the blood always referred to it as glucose and not as sugar. It's technically more accurate, cannot lead to confusion and more importantly keeps old pedants like me in their box.

True and only the liver can digest fructose. Fructose found in sugary drinks is a rough thing for the body.

 

[harbottle]

Doesn't fructose get metabolised as fat by the liver?

 

[Admiral Benbow]

This isn’t a British photo. It’s hard to find drinks with much sugar in them here. Plenty of diet versions available and teas coffees squashes too you don’t need to stick to water

Ok here is a British one, which sends the same message.

 

[Admiral Benbow]

Doesn't fructose get metabolised as fat by the liver?

Yes i believe so. That is what I mean by digested. Only the liver can deal with it, no other organ.

 

[Docb]

Yes i believe so. That is what I mean by digested. Only the liver can deal with it, no other organ.

OK, so fructose is a bit different to other carbohydrates but my pedantry still stands. The stuff we measure in our blood is glucose and is best referred to as "blood glucose" and not as "blood sugar".

PS... I get equally irritated by misuse of your and you're as well as their, there and they're.

 

[trophywench]

PS... I get equally irritated by misuse of your and you're as well as their, there and they're.

Ditto - and I honestly don't class this as being pedantic - just being taught English correctly as a child. Oh - and punctuation and things like the local bus timetable some helpful camper has made, laminated and affixed to the noticeboard at a campsite we frequently visit that states eg 'Between the hour's of X to Y..' and shows times as eg 09.00 am or 15.30 pm ........ aaarrgghh.

 

[Lucyr]

Ok here is a British one, which sends the same message.

This is incredibly out of date. Take that lucozade as an example, 17tsp of sugar. That’s 71g sugar (at 4.2 per tsp). Lucozade has 8.4g carb and 4.5g sugar per 100ml. To be drinking 71g sugar that’s over 1.5 litres of lucozade or for 71g carb that’s 845ml of lucozade. Thay is far bigger than the bottle shown.

It’s not just that either. Volvic juiced doesn’t exist. When it did it was 4g per 100ml so 5tsp not the 8 shown. Current volvic available have nowhere near that much carb.

A carton of ribena isn’t even enough to treat a hypo at 11g carb per carton which is 2.5tsp carb not the 5 shown. Stopped bothering looking after that.

 

[trophywench]

Yeah Lucy - I swore by old fashioned orange flavour Lucozade to treat hypos, so easy to carry a 380ml bottle of it around and have a few gulps when necessary - and much easier to drink when it had gone flat too so very reliable - now you need half a ruddy gallon of it to have anywhere near the same effect. Waste of time now, so just have to constantly avoid hypos, which is a sodding nuisance TBH.

 

[Barrowman]

PS... I get equally irritated by misuse of your and you're as well as their, there and they're.

Ditto - and I honestly don't class this as being pedantic - just being taught English correctly as a child.

Perhaps you should take into consideration that many forum members may not have been privileged to have the same level of education that you have had.
As a moderator on a motoring forum, we found that comments such as these were deterring members from posting for fear of being ridiculed for their lack of understanding of the English language.

 

[Lucyr]

Perhaps you should take into consideration that many forum members may not have been privileged to have the same level of education that you have had.
As a moderator on a motoring forum, we found that comments such as these were deterring members from posting for fear of being ridiculed for their lack of understanding of the English language.

I was the only person in my (UK) class at school who spoke English as a first language. I have nothing against those who speak multiple languages, I admire their skills as I struggle with one language let alone two. However, the majority of other pupils were not fluent and struggled with basic English, so the expectations and level of material covered was only very basic. I was often taken out in English for a social skills lesson instead since I have autism. You don’t get to choose your childhood and whether you were taught properly or not

 

[Leadinglights]

The term blood sugar is usually used by health care professionals so no wonder it is the expression people use .
On the DESMOND course I did many actually had no clue as to what carbohydrates, protein or fats were so really struggled with the concept of looking at the nutritional information on packets, etc.
I went to a school many years ago with some science activities and they said they had children with nearly 70 native languages.

 

[trophywench]

I'm talking about native white British people of a similar age, cos when I started school in 1955, where I lived in West Bromwich, there were no people with different coloured skins. At senior school, in 1961 none, but the daughter of a West Indian family started when I was about 12. Then in 1966 the son of a Sikh family joined the lower 6th - cos he'd been automatically - ? - sent to his nearest senior school when they arrived, but being a secondary modern they had no facilities to cater for a pupil with his level of intelligence or previous education, so soon transferred to us (Comprehensive) since the Grammar School wouldn't have him at 15 with no 11+ pass ...... I obviously don't expect anyone I know to be of a different nationality who didn't grow up here to be word perfect. But there's no excuse for people who have - and I very rarely criticise anyone's written English on internet forums (hardly expect em to be the same standard as the Encyclopaedia Britannica) anyway BUT that doesn't and can't stop me cringing!