Irnbru...

**lentil89** · 14-12-19, 02:31 AM

Whats peoples thoughts on the new old recipe irn bru? Think its very foamy but its Top shelve stuff

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**AND** · 14-12-19, 09:22 AM

Not tasted it yet but I lurve Iron Bru...made in Scotland from Girders, you know

**RASTA** · 14-12-19, 10:02 AM

The new old recipe?

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**RASTA** · 14-12-19, 03:55 PM

Well this is the one with low sugar content....not the same as it used to be, but still good to help with hangover

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**Valentina** · 14-12-19, 04:32 PM

What - either, people don't realise, or people realise but capitalise on, is that, when the body detects the sweetness (from sugar or sweetener), the body releases insulin.

Long story short the body's response goes into a death-spiral and to cut to the chase, type 2 diabetes. Sugar or sweetener makes almost no difference in THAT sense.

What makes sweetener worse is that ther is one where one of the metabolites is METHANOL. Yeah, that blue methylated spirit stuff. That stuff that can make people blind.

If I must have a fizzy sweet drink, I would rather have the old recipe sugary stuff and throw in plenty of ice.

Snag is that that sweetener is everywhere now. Even drinking yoghurt!

How businesses capitalise it, is more clear in energy drinks. Drink one, the body releases insulin to bring blood sugar down, person feels tired, drink one more, more insulin is released, feels tired again, drink and another one, and so on. The sugarless version means you have to drink EVEN MORE for the caffiene to prop the person up when their blood-sugar is basically, in effect, supressed from all that sweetener (goes back to how the body responds).

What the means is that it's a lot of money for the shops and a very messed up pancreas and adrenal glands for you.

**M_C** · 14-12-19, 04:47 PM

I am convinced, that within my lifetime, these sweeteners will be classed as a poison!

**Valentina** · 14-12-19, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by M_C

I am convinced, that within my lifetime, these sweeteners will be classed as a poison!

I'd bleedin' hope so.

Once upon a time, I read in a book that, some boffins fed diet coke to lab monkeys to see if there was any toxicity. Long story short, the calculations translated into over 1500 cans a week (?) for it to be "harmful".

I don't remember much else from that study now, but I do think that the "tree huggers" are not entirely "wrong" when it comes to that fuzzy interpretation of "chemicals".