Take the familiar category as an example. A brand of rock candy Sydney has a heat of 246kj per 100ml, and the capacity of each bottle is 500ml. Drinking a bottle of drink is equivalent to eating two and a half bowls of rice.
Now more and more people know that eating too much sugar is harmful to their health, so they pay special attention to the choice of eating.
A series of sugar-free drinks that have gradually become popular in recent two years are examples.
Are there any good sugar-free drinks on the market?
I divided them into two parts according to the drinks I bought.
First, sugar-free tea drinks
Oriental Leaf, Suntory, China Tea and Itohen are common brands of sugar-free tea drinks in the market at present.
I drank this sugar-free tea drink with oriental leaves when I was very young, and I didn't have a good impression on it. Last year, Oriental leaves were also selected as one of the five most unpleasant drinks (the other four are: white snake grass water, Gowasu, black pine sand and red scream).
In fact, the taste of sugar-free tea drinks is basically the same, so the taste of these tea drinks can be imagined.
I spent a long time writing this comment on diet drinks. All the comments I can give are probably bad or even worse. Of course, if you have the habit of drinking tea, maybe you can praise it a little. However, people who really like tea also disdain this "fast food" way of drinking tea. Tea set, water temperature and the quality of tea itself all have requirements.
Although the taste of this kind of tea is not as good as that of brewed tea, it is still active in major supermarkets and convenience stores because it is sugar-free and healthy.
After all, after drinking so many bottles, even if it is not good, you can choose a bottle with a slightly outstanding taste.
I left this highest honor to Ito Eun's barley tea:
It tastes like roasted barley and smells inexplicably good.
It is worth mentioning that there has always been a saying about tea that the higher the content of tea polyphenols, the higher the quality of tea.
What I want to tell you is that this statement is wrong and there are no qualifications. First of all, it depends on the category of tea: the higher the fermentation degree of tea, the lower the content of tea polyphenols.
Therefore, in the same grade of tea, the content of tea polyphenols is distributed as follows: green tea > oolong tea > black tea.
If it is the same category of tea, under the same tea concentration, the higher the grade of tea, the higher the content of tea polyphenols.
This is because phenols generally grow on the freshest leaves. The more tender the tea leaves are, the higher the content of tea polyphenols will be. With the growth and aging of tea, the content of tea polyphenols will decrease.
The raw materials used in high-grade green tea are generally one bud and one leaf or one bud and two leaves, with high bud content. They are the most tender parts of tea, with short growth cycle, closest to sunlight, full photosynthesis with sunlight, the best growth trend and the greatest advantage. More phenols can be synthesized in leaves, so the content of tea polyphenols in high-grade green tea is the highest.
Second, sweetener drinks
This category refers to all kinds of diet soda and zero-calorie soda. Soda water may have fewer additives, so it is not as sweet as the other two kinds of soda water.
Among these models, the zero-calorie sprite tastes slightly better. But compared with ordinary Sprite, there is still a slight gap. Sweeteners such as aspartame and acesulfame K have long aftertaste, which is not a good thing. It's strange that the mouth still tastes sweet for a long time after drinking it.
However, it tastes sweet, especially these two kinds of soda. Why dare you label them with zero calories?
Because although sweeteners do have calories, the amount added to drinks is very small.
Take aspartame as an example, the sweetness of 1g aspartame is equivalent to 180g sugar. There are about 60 grams of sugar in a bottle of drink. If aspartame is used instead, only about 0.3g is enough. The calorie of aspartame is only 4 calories per gram, so the calorie of each bottle of sugar substitute beverage is almost negligible. In China's food packaging standards, when the sugar content per 100ml of beverage is less than 0.5g (that is, the calorie per 100ml does not exceed 4 calories), zero calorie can be marked on the outer packaging.
But because these drinks are extremely low in calories, you can assume that they are healthy and then drink them unscrupulously?
Of course not! Although sweeteners do not provide calories, long-term drinking will reduce our sensitivity to glucose. For example, it is no problem for normal people to consume 25g of sugar every day, but long-term intake of sweeteners is likely to cause diabetes.
Secondly, after drinking this sugar-free drink, the body thinks that it has eaten something, but in fact, the calorie is zero, which is equivalent to not eating, and the body feels dissatisfied, so it unconsciously increases appetite and increases food intake afterwards, which may easily lead to obesity in the long run.