Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda Pop (2014)

Re:Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic His... by milesvp on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:10PM (#17979709)

I was under the impression it's all aluminium cans that need a chemical buffer to prevent aluminium from leeching into the fluids. Long term Aluminium poisoning is probably worse than diabetes since it tends to eat away at your brain.

Either way I'm not particularly fond of the flavor that aluminium cans seem to impart on drinks, and have been starting to avoid them more as I get older.

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Re:Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic His... by subcosmos on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:21PM (#17979802)

Yup - bisphenol-a containing resins are the precise lining that is used to prevent the aluminum from getting eaten by the carbonic acid.

There was also this fascinating study showing that BPA drove liver fat accumulation much more profoundly than fructose, which I find interesting. Both are clearly bad, but futzing with hormones is especially bad : https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0300483X120036...

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