Lucozade-opinions.

Wanderer2010

I really like drinking the Original Lucozade, would probably have 5 or 6 half litre bottles a week. I know its quite high in sugar and not doing my weight any good but is it really as bad as some people claim, and is 6 bottles a week excessive? I find its quite an addictive drink and when i cut back for a few days the cravings are very strong!

Is Lucozade as bad for you as Coke etc do you reckon?

52g of sugar per bottle? Eh yea that's very bad, I think that's more than coke
No wonder you are having cravings - just cut it out for a week or two and they'll go

Lola B

Lucozade and Coke should be renamed liquid diabetes

madma

OP, if your trying to lose wait you should avoid it, if your just worried about it for health reasons then limit it.

ive givin up fizzy drinks since new years and its for the first time.. i finished off by drinking aload of the drink on last day before giving up.

feel better without drinking that or diet coke it all really is rubbish sure look at the label, its bascially sugar in a bottle and very high in cals. not worth drinking imo

slim223

I gave up lucozade because if I drink any amount of it, my nose gets blocked. I assume its got to do with all the sugar.

Gummy Panda

Do you remember when lucozade was a drink for when you were poorly in hospital and couldn't hold down much food?

now its just another soft drink

magicherbs

cut the lucozade out full stop.

donmaga1

There is about 8 spoons of sugar in a can of Coke. I drank 2 cans of Coke every day and lucozade every second day. I stopped one day. I didnt have craving that were bad. I stopped for health reasons. If you stop. 3 months later you will feel great and your weight with drop. Put the money you would spend on lucozade or coke in a Jar. After a month look at the amount you have saved. For me it was 20 euro a week.

I have stopped 6 months and over chrimbo I had a cold can of Coke the way I like it and can was rotten. When it leaves your system your taste buds will taste real tastes.

Going out at weekends it hard.

Diet Coke is by far the worst.

Nonoperational

donmaga1 wrote: »

There is about 8 spoons of sugar in a can of Coke. I drank 2 cans of Coke every day and lucozade every second day. I stopped one day. I didnt have craving that were bad. I stopped for health reasons. If you stop. 3 months later you will feel great and your weight with drop. Put the money you would spend on lucozade or coke in a Jar. After a month look at the amount you have saved. For me it was 20 euro a week.

I have stopped 6 months and over chrimbo I had a cold can of Coke the way I like it and can was rotten. When it leaves your system your taste buds will taste real tastes.

Going out at weekends it hard.

Diet Coke is by far the worst.

Why exactly?

April O Neill

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I really like drinking the Original Lucozade, would probably have 5 or 6 half litre bottles a week. I know its quite high in sugar and not doing my weight any good but is it really as bad as some people claim, and is 6 bottles a week excessive? I find its quite an addictive drink and when i cut back for a few days the cravings are very strong!

Is Lucozade as bad for you as Coke etc do you reckon?

Well, Lucozade contains more sugar than coke. Ask yourself, would you feel OK about drinking 5-6 half litre bottles of coke a week?

sethasaurus

I can understand the appeal of sugary pop (a glass of coke is like fireworks if you haven't had it for ages) - good with a pizza, but maybe once in a blue moon.
The carbonation is definitely a factor, I think.
but...
Stay away from the Locozade!

If you're not exercising, there's not really any point touching sports or sugar drinks.

Just plain old water is the best you can get. Instead of reaching for the Loco, next time you go to the shop, shuffle over a little and pick up one of those bottles of plain water (not the flavoured stuff, which is loaded with sugar as well).

Once you get used to drinking water, you'll feel better and realise it's better for you.
(It'll also save you some cash).

Stench Blossoms

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Do you remember when lucozade was a drink for when you were poorly in hospital and couldn't hold down much food?

now its just another soft drink

Was just going to say this. A friend of mines dad was going through chemo and couldn't hold down food and was given lucozade.

hardCopy

350kcal per bottle with no real nutritional benefit unless you're struggling to consume enough calories each day.

I'd rather spend those calories on something tasty and filling like a lasagne, stew, fillet steak.

siblers

If it help's make you feel better
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3664841.ece

donmaga1

Nonoperational wrote: »

Why exactly?

There have been independent links between Diet Coke are and infertility. Mainly in women. I think that is bad enough.

magicherbs

nonsense

KTRIC

magicherbs wrote: »

nonsense

Which part exactly?

Gummy Panda

donmaga1 wrote: »

There have been independent links between Diet Coke are and infertility. Mainly in women. I think that is bad enough.

Only thing I've heard of is women who are under going IVF are asked to cut out diet coke due to the levels of caffeine in it.

rubadub

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Do you remember when lucozade was a drink for when you were poorly in hospital and couldn't hold down much food?

+1. Lucozade has glucose in it, rather than sucrose ('regular sugar') like in coke on sale here.

Glucose is less sweet per calorie, but around the same calories per gram (sucrose is slightly more). So lucozade is not sickly sweet at this high concentration even though it has more calories. Honey is the opposite, sweeter than sucrose per calorie so useful if you like sweet things and want to lower calories.

Oryx

Original lucozade has far more caffeine than coke, another reason to avoid it.

magicherbs

donmaga1 wrote: »

There have been independent links between Diet Coke are and infertility. Mainly in women. I think that is bad enough.

no real evidence proving causation or corelation between cancer and cyclamates, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium or any other artificial sweetener.

pleaes provide evidence or don't say it. complete nonsense to say diet coke causes cancer

rubadub

magicherbs wrote: »

pleaes provide evidence or don't say it. complete nonsense to say diet coke causes cancer

nobody mentioned cancer in this thread, except you...

donmaga1

magicherbs wrote: »

no real evidence proving causation or corelation between cancer and cyclamates, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium or any other artificial sweetener.

pleaes provide evidence or don't say it. complete nonsense to say diet coke causes cancer

Dont say what? Have an option? I like your response......

Google it.

Read medical papers and you will see it Dont be making stupid remarks to something that IS AND HAS been studied in Trinity collage and and it Mayo Clinic. It was on the tv and was in the papers last year

The chemical, 4-methylimidazole, usually known as 4-MI and sometimes 4-MEI, is a byproduct of the chemical process soda companies use to create the artificial dye that gives the sodas their trademark caramel coloring. Studies linking 4-MI to cancer in mice prompted the state of California to list it as a carcinogen in spring of 2009. It's illegal to sell any food or beverage containing an amount of 4-MI that could increase the risk of cancer by more than 1 case per 100,000 people in California without a warning label. The CSPI alleges that the levels it found in sodas would increase the risk by as much as 4.8 cases per 100,000 people.

ebixa82

donmaga1 wrote: »

Dont say what? Have an option? I like your response......

Google it.

Read medical papers and you will see it Dont be making stupid remarks to something that IS AND HAS been studied in Trinity collage and and it Mayo Clinic. It was on the tv and was in the papers last year

The chemical, 4-methylimidazole, usually known as 4-MI and sometimes 4-MEI, is a byproduct of the chemical process soda companies use to create the artificial dye that gives the sodas their trademark caramel coloring. Studies linking 4-MI to cancer in mice prompted the state of California to list it as a carcinogen in spring of 2009. It's illegal to sell any food or beverage containing an amount of 4-MI that could increase the risk of cancer by more than 1 case per 100,000 people in California without a warning label. The CSPI alleges that the levels it found in sodas would increase the risk by as much as 4.8 cases per 100,000 people.

Unless your drinking buckets of the stuff there's no need to worry about any of the above. If they were actually dangerous in regular doses these drugs wouldn't get approval from FDA.

Anybody who drinks alcohol, or lives in a congested, polluted city should worry much more about that than a few soft drinks.

Lucozade 380ml bottle contains 52g of sugar (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/lucozade-orange-51783149), which is about 10 teaspoons...imagine giving someone 10 teaspoons of sugar and a glass of water and asking them to mix it up and drink it!

Gummy Panda

donmaga1 wrote: »

Dont say what? Have an option? I like your response......

Google it.

Read medical papers and you will see it Dont be making stupid remarks to something that IS AND HAS been studied in Trinity collage and and it Mayo Clinic. It was on the tv and was in the papers last year

The chemical, 4-methylimidazole, usually known as 4-MI and sometimes 4-MEI, is a byproduct of the chemical process soda companies use to create the artificial dye that gives the sodas their trademark caramel coloring. Studies linking 4-MI to cancer in mice prompted the state of California to list it as a carcinogen in spring of 2009. It's illegal to sell any food or beverage containing an amount of 4-MI that could increase the risk of cancer by more than 1 case per 100,000 people in California without a warning label. The CSPI alleges that the levels it found in sodas would increase the risk by as much as 4.8 cases per 100,000 people.

If you make a statement like that you should back it up with studies rather then put the onus on others to Google it.

donmaga1

Gummy Panda wrote: »

If you make a statement like that you should back it up with studies rather then put the onus on others to Google it.

Is this a forum or a school yard.
I think this got off topic.
Thanks for all the value and no one has given any proof I am work so where is your studies to show I am wrong. I will google that. LOL

Great post. Thanks for the value

Gummy Panda

donmaga1 wrote: »

Is this a forum or a school yard.
I think this got off topic.
Thanks for all the value and no one has given any proof I am work so where is your studies to show I am wrong. I will google that. LOL

Great post. Thanks for the value

Eh??