It has previously been researched how useless it is with soft drinks with sugar and without.
The substance found in sugar -free soda, but not in “regular” soda is aspartame – a substance that most people agree that it is useless. The EU has a limit value on how much aspartame you can get according to it can be harmful. In soda with sugar, it is instead the sugar itself that is the culprit.
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So if you want to drink soda after all, which variant should you choose?
The Danish scientist Nicklas Brendborgwho wrote a book and runs a podcast about health, says in a feature of Denmark’s radio that there is actually a variant to prefer from a health point of view.
-Light soda is preferable to the sugar-containing soda. There is no doubt about it, he tells the radio.
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But why?
According to Brendborg, aspartame does not deserve the bad reputation it has received over the years.
– When you hear all these studies that aspartame can be harmful, it is mostly based on the fact that there are some who have done studies on mice and rats, where they have provided huge doses of aspartame in levels that you would never ever consume naturally.
Brendborg also points out that one should not replace your water intake with soda, regardless of variety.
– What we must of course remember is that when we say that artificial sweeteners are “useful” or are “okay”, so it is in relation to something. There is no doubt if you compare with the light version with a lot of sugar, it is a definite yes, he says to the radio.
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