Coke and Pepsi Among Major Soda Brands Hiding Alcohol Content
Every can of Coke contains about 10 teaspoons of sugar—an inflammatory, an energy sapper, and a leading cause of tooth decay—but it’s the 10mg of alcohol in every liter that might concern consumers the most. A new report reveals that many leading soda brands — including Coke and Pepsi — contain a small amount of alcohol per bottle. The findings are particularly startling for those who object alcohol for religious or spiritual reasons and may be unknowingly consuming it through Coke and Pepsi beverages.
French Scientists Find Alcohol Hiding in Coke and Pepsi
On June 27, Paris-based National Institute of Consumption (INC) revealed that half of the most popular sodas contain minute traces of alcohol - including incredibly popular Coke and Pepsi. In addition to Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola, Coca-Cola Classic Light, and Coke Zero also contain the minute alcohol content. Many cheaper supermarket versions are actually alcohol-free.
Admittedly, 10mg per liter isn’t much (it’s about 0.001 percent alcohol). Because the Qur’an forbids consumption of alcoholic beverages, though, some Muslims may take issue with that small percent, even if the Committee of the Mosque of Paris deems it still in line with their religious beliefs. Others who have decided to abstain from alcohol may also be outraged.
So, what is alcohol doing in soda? Michel Pepin, the scientific director for Coca-Cola France, says that traces of alcohol come from the process of making soda rather than the initial ingredients of its secret recipe. The amount is, however, legal. In fact, even orange juice has some alcohol because ethanol occurs naturally in many citrus fruits, particularly toward the end of harvest season, when the yeasts have had more time to convert sugar into alcohol.
Massive Sugar Content Spikes Disease Rates
Meanwhile, sugar and artificial sweetener consumption has been linked repeatedly with obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. A 2009 study even found that almost half of high-fructose corn syrup (usually in the top two ingredients of soda) contained toxic mercury. So no matter how you look at it, soda is definitely a health destroyer.
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The average human digestive system produces 3 grams of ethanol a day anyway.
I think you mean 10 micrograms (mcg) per liter, not milligrams (mg). The former would mean that Coke and Pepsi contain 1% alcohol, which is implausible.
Where did you go to school?
A liter of Coke weighs approximately 1 kg.
There are 1000 milligrams in 1 gram.
10 milligrams is 0.01 grams, therefore its percentage as expressed as being a part of a liter is 0.00001 or 1/100,000th part.
For it to be 1% there would have to be 1000 milligrams or 1 gram.
Perhaps you were confused with milliliters?
When I was a kid eating meat on Friday was a damnable act; it made no sense from any perspective, but logic wasn't part of the equation. And in this God-fearing state of Massachusetts, the Blue Laws forbade stores from opening on "the Lord's Day". So, people did their shopping in New Hampshire on Sunday, and enriched that state. Most people long ago retired their religious prohibitions, or reinterpreted them with the changing times.
Soda should by law be clearly labelled with regards to the health risks associated with drinking them, and advertising should be severely regulated, just like the tobacco industry…
Alcohol is an inflammatory and asthma trigger for me since having s severe toxic exposure almost 24 years ago. Truth in labeling is as vital for me than h=those with peanut or milk allergies, etc. Now I know why I rarely drink any soda, and many other processed foods that contain formaldehyde producing products like MSG which is another ' trigger'. This is potentially life =threatening as one of my accepted diagnoses at federal workers compensation is chemically induced pneumonitis. How dare they lie and let my medical conditions be aggravated. My discrimination compliant with the office of civil rights for HHS goes unanswered and so does the ones filed every 180 days, When I filed the first one in 1/08; the regional manager in Dallas called and laid me out cold for blowing the whistle on the FDA and the other offending parties. Getting legal help is virtually nonexistence as no one is willing to take on billionaires who have gotten permission from the govt to lie to the people. Thanks so much for the warning! Purified water will be my drink of choice from now on! I used to be able to tolerate a small glass of Pepsi, but that has changed in recent years, too as can taste something inflammes and is harmful, to me. We the people have the right to life and that means we have the right to truth in labeling for everyone of us as many have different kinds of allergies and sensitivities and we need the right to protect our lives and health. Even the attorneys that started a class action suit against Tropicana have pulled back . Guess they didn't realize FDA gave that permission for tobacco flavorings chemicals were permitted to be labeled as natural flavorings in 1992. Linda Joy Adams
I guess the religious are hellbound now.
Wait until they find out how much nicotine they've been eating in their food too.
@night train and anyone I guess who says: the religious are hellbound now.
No They are not in short my friends according to Islamic law anyways..
.. and as one learned Muslim Brother Abdullah Edwards Put it (Who is no longer with us) once said: There is two Types of ignorance in this world:
1) Where you know and understand what's being intended to be done.Either to yourselves or others, ie us and the rest of creation.
2) Where you don't know and don't understand what's being intended to be done.Either to yourselves or others, ie us and the rest of creation.
So to anwser in short @all..The first one We are answerable for the second we are not…
Most Muslims for instance know that things beond there control.. are not of there doings and are not answerable for…
So The muslims now have several things to do before excepting as fact the statement of topic.
Confirm this by examination.
If Proved incorrect:
Only Then will we try and change what we can with our hands to denounce this behaviour and if we cannot do that then we will try to speak out to denounce this behaviour and if we cannot do that then we will at least hate it in our hearts and that for us would be the weakest of acts in our faith..though still an exceptable act.
If Proved correct:
Only then When we all know' we will stop using it.Then and only then will we try and change what we can with our hands to denounce this behaviour and if we cannot do that then we will try to speak out to denounce this behaviour and if we cannot do that then we will atleast hate it in our hearts and that for us would be the weakest of faith..though still an exceptable act.
So in a nut shell you don't know till you know and to know is to understand clearly and truthfully with out a shadow of doubt.It's Called evidence based on hard facts that calculate a given said act.
Though this site i frequent often i see no reason to doubt it's validity
And the author is correct this will cause a stir indeed..
Some of those said companies if not all as some suggest are run by the same satanic worshpping elite we have come to know for some while now.. so for some of us in the muslim world this kind of information is well appreciated .Thank You.
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