Take that, red bull bonces!!!
Looks like my bowl of sugar cubes for breakfast is back on the table.
What… the hell… has happened… to my comments section???
This is still less sugar than the chocolate milk cartons they serve in American schools.
EDIT: Just to be clear, I hate both lol
Sounds like something off a spurlock doc. If true, What a sorry state of affairs.
As someone who grew up avoiding sugar and having to look at the back of everything this would have been relatively low in sugar compared to other products sold in that same store in my area. In the South of the US you would have a hard time finding something lower than sprite and or tea(~35g)without alternative synthetic sweeteners like aspertain and sucralose or just water and those options used to be sparce. A lot of times a convenience store would only have diet coke, unsweet tea, or water unless I was okay with 30+ grams of sugar. I’m not saying that it’s okay to have that much sugar, but it definitely seems far out of the way from some of the much lower hanging fruit. For example even Gatorade and Powerade have more sugar per package unit and those were available via vending machines IN the school. Also, pretty much every fast-food drink station makes you choose between water, unsweetened tea, or something with almost 50g of sugar when in a can.
t1 diabetic here. I get the grind of trying to find low/no/alt sugar products. You always hear about how bad the usa diet is. But it’s another thing to travel around world for alt food cultures, and/or even look directly at the numbers. Basically everything has some form of sweetener in it. I don’t get it.
50g??? Damn, that is bad
That was kinda the ceiling seemed like everyone was trying to avoid. So a lot of 48 and 49. But all might as well have been surge to me. …Surge had 56g a can if I recall.
Nah it’s just the total amount of the calories that is from suger. It only … hmm… only has 26g of sugars in it.
Just looked at the Mexican coke I just finished drinking 😭 39g sugar…
When you visualize it like this, it makes you think twice about grabbing that sugary beverage. Having said that, I still like a red bull here and there, and sugar free just ain’t the same.
Edit removed slop, changed pic
Um… excuse me, but isn’t Mountain Dew that pop drink in america? Why tf is Frappuccino labeled as Mountain Dew?
I didn’t notice that. Probably slop. Here’s a better image
Here’s one of the total amount of sugar in a Monster Zero Sugar.
They use a DNA damage agent instead. Better?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260912220107.htm
And we wonder why colon cancer is exploding under 30.
Interesting read. Thank you. But the article didn’t really conclude anything specific about the genotoxicity of the sweetener outside direct cell exposure to a related chemical.
You can bet your colon that obesity will kill you before the cancer. Unless the cancer caused by obesity kills your first.
Fair enough, although it would be better with numerical measurements
Hmm, according to this graphic 7 == 9 == 10 > 14. I see LLMs still can’t do math
Yeah, I fucking hate the post AI Internet. I used to be able to find the relevant image when I searched it up, not AI garbage.
That’s not even the worst thing: his first image that he posted had a Frappuccino labelled as ‘mountain dew’ not a joke
Makes me wonder which ones taste good if you turn the sugar into ethanol. Apple juice does, what about others?
Worry not, some Internet guy did it with mountain dew.
Mexican coke
Identical to any other coke.
Wait why are you not drinking red bull zero
Because it’s disgusting. The aftertaste and the way it coats my mouth is just nasty.
Fair. I actually prefer zero to sugar red bull. Every body is different!
That’s how I feel about the regular one. Locarb RB/Monster are my go tos
Every person’s mouth is different, I can’t drink anything with artificial sweeteners without feeling kinda gross afterwards. I stick to cane sugar sodas as much as I can. Kinda easy since I work at a soda factory that exclusively uses cane sugar. Ill mix our in-house energy with orange cream soda and oh my that shits good.
Oh yeah I wasn’t saying you’re wrong. Just sharing since I thinkits funny I feel the same as you do but about the opposite end of the sugar scale for red bull. Full sugar monster is fine for me. I don’t drink the full zero energies because they often mess with my stomach. I wish more stuff used cane sugar, I almost always prefer that version of a drink!
Oh yea definitely, I didn’t take it that way. Sorry if it sounded as such. It’s crazy how the artificial sweeteners vibe differently with people. Shoot even water is like that, some areas the water makes my stomach hurt lol 😂
Could be worse I guess, coca cola has about 50g or so in a can
On another note, I hate how all drinks add more sugar than needed. I usually use only 10g to sweeten my milk tea, but every canned drink is 30 to 50g
I presume you’re not a fan of sugar cubes then in favour of a spoon?
I dont use sugar cubes, i buy taiwan brown sugar and that comes in a loose bag, so I just threw an unused measuring spoon in my container of it
I thought that the sugar industry worked really hard to ensure they didn’t have to show a daily % amount on the right across from the grams listing. I have never seen a % there before. Crazy.
Maybe it’s just my state, but I’ve seen the percent there on pretty much everything I can think of.
Reminder, the percent isnt the percent of the can, it’s the percent of the “recommend daily value” (which is what the %DV at the top means) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_Daily_Intake
“Nah im not tired or insomniac i just love consuming 3 cans of bull piss every single day it tastes just good”This is why I only drink the six foot tall monster screw top cans. I’m so much healthier than those red bull peons.
There are few drinks that I can’t stand the smell of but Redbull just smells fucking disgusting.
It’s the same as any soda. Around 10% of the drink like coca cola or Pepsi.
The slogan, “RedBull gives you Wings” needs an asterisk. It only applies to those who are grated into heaven after they die of diabeetus
It actually gives you wiiings. Which apparently they do to avoid false advertisement or some shit?
This comment made my shit night
I mean, diabetes also gives you wings?
The fastest way to give lab rats diabetes is to feed them vegetable oil.
*Beetus Juice
It’s meant to be something you drink before an intensive activity. having some sugar in it is a good addition, not a bad one. 110 calories per can is nothing, you can burn them by walking a few km.
But there’s always some derivative that comes with 0 calories.
Ughhhhhhhh the “aCtuAlLy” crowd. Give it a rest. You know this is illogical at best. Just because you’ve retained the commercial talking points doesn’t mean you understand the underlying situation.
“Some sugar”
This piss is 26% sugar my guy. And WHO recommends not to ingest more than 25g of added sugar per day.
I’m sorry, but your comment is so stupid it hurts my feelings.
Edit: I realised it’s not 26%, because it only gives the amount per serving instead of 100 milliliters, so it’s harder to understand how much sugar is actually in there. It’s still piss with way too much sugar though.
26 grams, not %, but yeah I agree nobody would rightly say to ingest that much sugar in one go in any case.
So since the majority of consumers that drink red bull are sedentary, you’re saying Red Bull would be fine with losing 90% of their market share because their product was intended to be used before intense activity?
Or are they perhaps marketing to exactly that segment because they are as callous as people say?
If you are sedentary, don’t buy it. Or buy an alternative with 0 calories.
Yeah, but how many kids do you see nowadays on the way to school with a can in their hand? It may be intended for that, and yeah a lot of people do use it for that (exercise), but there’s also a lot of people who don’t use it for that.
Kids at school are going to get more exercise than most office workers just by going between classes, not to mention PE class.
Yeah, probably not enough to burn through 26 grams of sugar (maybe more depending on what they eat for lunch/how many tins of the terrible stuff they have before or after school)
None, They can’t buy them due to their age.
Where do you live that Red Bull is age restricted? I’m curious, because anyone can buy it here.
Oh they find ways…
That’s 100% their shitty decision. But even if you don’t buy a red bull for exercise, it’s still only 110 calories. The can says 53% sugar, which is about the same as the amount of carbs in bread. You can easily eat more calories with bread.
Oh I 100% agree it’s their poor decision. The only thing I would say is just because the % of sugar is the same, it doesn’t necessarily mean the same quantity. For example, this white bread company claims only 3 grams of sugar in a loaf of bread (obviously it won’t be the same in every loaf, though I’ve never heard of a loaf of bread containing 36 grams of sugar - though I could be wrong).
The percentage isn’t a percent of the can, it’s a percent of your “Daily Value” which is how much an average person is supposed to have in a day. 100% means it contains the amount you are supposed to have in a day. Not that the can is 100% sugar. So a soda that has 50% DV has the same amount of sugar as bread that has a serving marked as 50% DV.
That’s interesting, I hadn’t known that. But given the maximum daily intake of sugar is around 40 g, I guess that would make sense mathematically. May I ask, is that percentage purely in terms of mass, or is it also in terms of calories?
