Why is soda pop so addictive?!


Question: Why is soda pop so addictive!?
I know I shouldn't drink it at all!. I try to limit myself to one per day & then drink water & Gatorade the rest of the day!.Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
Because they're chemically engineered to be delicious!? Same thing with fast food!. They spend a LOT of time in food science labs trying to figure out how to make you really want their goods!. Personally, I don't really like soda!. Every once in a while I get a craving for root beer or red pop but I rarely finish a bottle!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Caffeine!. It's hard to stop your body will have caffeine withdrawls causing head aches, mood swings etc!. I know some people who drink 4 or 5 a day!. I guess one is better than several!.

Don't switch to diet it is worse for you than regular cokes!.
What the consumers were not made aware of was that it contains many different ingredients that are a health hazard!. Diet Coke contains Aspartame/NutraSweet, Saccharin, Carbonated Water and Phosphoric Acid!. The main ingredient in diet coke is aspartame, making up 50% of the diet coke product, which infact does not help lose weight at all! Diet coke has falsely informed the consumers that it is a healthy alternative to Coca-Cola although this isn't the case!. Diet Coke is the 4th most-popular carbonated soft drink in the world making the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Brazil the top five markets for the product!. Other than these countries, diet coke is also sold in 144 other countries!. It is also predicted that diet coke will eventually over take Pepsi and Coca Cola as the number 1 selling soft drink in USA!.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet which has more of any other ingredient in a single serving, is supposedly the ingredient that makes diet coke sweet!. This is theoretically wrong as aspartame isn't a sweet ingredient at all, it actually sends messages to your brain which makes you think that it is sweet!. This then triggers your brain to crave for high calorie foods making the product non-diet!. Surveys and tests show that more than half of everyday overweight people put on weight after the first 2 weeks of a "diet coke" program which required participants to consume 1 can of diet coke a day, for 2 weeks!. Although artificial sweeteners have always been known to make you crave things high in calories, it is also known that aspartame is a type of artificial sweetener!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

gatorade is bad for you too
it has all of those chemicals in them
soda pop is addictive because of the caffeine and sugar and etc!. in them
soda pop also damages teeth tooWww@FoodAQ@Com

Caffeine!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

They just seem to have an very nice enjoyable taste to them that satisfy my taste buds ;pWww@FoodAQ@Com

Carbonation!. And now I have the sudden urge to go get an orange soda!.Www@FoodAQ@Com





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