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Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by ravenstine on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:51PM (#16777785)
What diet soda contains saccharin? Also, that study only looks at saccharin. What about sucralose?
Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by zenophobia on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:06PM (#16777903)
The study investigates three non-caloric artificial sweeteners: saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame.

"To determine the effects of NAS on glucose homeostasis, we addedcommercial formulations of saccharin, sucralose or aspartame to the drinking water of lean 10-week-old C57Bl/6 mice"

"Notably, at week 11, the three mouse groups that consumed water, glucose and sucrose featured comparable glucose tolerance curves, whereas all three NAS-consuming mousegroups developed marked glucose intolerance (P , 0.001, Fig. 1a, b)."

The article probably only talks about saccharin specifically because, as the study states: "...saccharin exerted the most pronounced effect, [so] we further studied its role as a prototype artificial sweetener."

Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by Gregordinary on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:10PM (#16777926)
Besides Tab, Diet Coke from a fountain contains saccharin: https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2008/04/17/Coca-Cola-w...

(Trying to find another source, I believe Diet Pepsi from a fountain does as well, to extend shelf life.)

Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by therein on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:59PM (#16778217)
Wow that blows my mind. No wonder soda from fountain tastes different, and I am not even talking about only the low-calorie ones. I thought it was merely due to some sort of imprecision in dispensing the concentrate.
Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by amyjess on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:54PM (#16777802)
> What diet soda contains saccharin?

The only one I can think of is Tab. I tried it once, and I couldn't finish a can.

Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by r00fus on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:16AM (#16779487)
Pink Sweet & Low sweetener (saccharine) packets are in almost every coffee or brunch place I've ever been to.
Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by hinkley on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:50PM (#16778781)
Someone tried to rekindle the 1970’s saccharin scare in the early 90’s and a bunch of sodas and gums switched to aspartame. Which may be worse for you...