It’s meant to be something you drink before an intensive activity. having some sugar in it is a good addition, not a bad one. 110 calories per can is nothing, you can burn them by walking a few km.
But there’s always some derivative that comes with 0 calories.
Ughhhhhhhh the “aCtuAlLy” crowd. Give it a rest. You know this is illogical at best. Just because you’ve retained the commercial talking points doesn’t mean you understand the underlying situation.
This piss is 26% sugar my guy. And WHO recommends not to ingest more than 25g of added sugar per day.
I’m sorry, but your comment is so stupid it hurts my feelings.
Edit: I realised it’s not 26%, because it only gives the amount per serving instead of 100 milliliters, so it’s harder to understand how much sugar is actually in there. It’s still piss with way too much sugar though.
Yeah, but how many kids do you see nowadays on the way to school with a can in their hand? It may be intended for that, and yeah a lot of people do use it for that (exercise), but there’s also a lot of people who don’t use it for that.
Yeah, probably not enough to burn through 26 grams of sugar (maybe more depending on what they eat for lunch/how many tins of the terrible stuff they have before or after school)
That’s 100% their shitty decision. But even if you don’t buy a red bull for exercise, it’s still only 110 calories. The can says 53% sugar, which is about the same as the amount of carbs in bread. You can easily eat more calories with bread.
Oh I 100% agree it’s their poor decision. The only thing I would say is just because the % of sugar is the same, it doesn’t necessarily mean the same quantity. For example, this white bread company claims only 3 grams of sugar in a loaf of bread (obviously it won’t be the same in every loaf, though I’ve never heard of a loaf of bread containing 36 grams of sugar - though I could be wrong).
The percentage isn’t a percent of the can, it’s a percent of your “Daily Value” which is how much an average person is supposed to have in a day. 100% means it contains the amount you are supposed to have in a day. Not that the can is 100% sugar. So a soda that has 50% DV has the same amount of sugar as bread that has a serving marked as 50% DV.
That’s interesting, I hadn’t known that. But given the maximum daily intake of sugar is around 40 g, I guess that would make sense mathematically. May I ask, is that percentage purely in terms of mass, or is it also in terms of calories?
So since the majority of consumers that drink red bull are sedentary, you’re saying Red Bull would be fine with losing 90% of their market share because their product was intended to be used before intense activity?
Or are they perhaps marketing to exactly that segment because they are as callous as people say?
It’s meant to be something you drink before an intensive activity. having some sugar in it is a good addition, not a bad one. 110 calories per can is nothing, you can burn them by walking a few km.
But there’s always some derivative that comes with 0 calories.
Ughhhhhhhh the “aCtuAlLy” crowd. Give it a rest. You know this is illogical at best. Just because you’ve retained the commercial talking points doesn’t mean you understand the underlying situation.
“Some sugar”
This piss is 26% sugar my guy. And WHO recommends not to ingest more than 25g of added sugar per day.
I’m sorry, but your comment is so stupid it hurts my feelings.
Edit: I realised it’s not 26%, because it only gives the amount per serving instead of 100 milliliters, so it’s harder to understand how much sugar is actually in there. It’s still piss with way too much sugar though.
26 grams, not %, but yeah I agree nobody would rightly say to ingest that much sugar in one go in any case.
Yeah, but how many kids do you see nowadays on the way to school with a can in their hand? It may be intended for that, and yeah a lot of people do use it for that (exercise), but there’s also a lot of people who don’t use it for that.
Kids at school are going to get more exercise than most office workers just by going between classes, not to mention PE class.
Yeah, probably not enough to burn through 26 grams of sugar (maybe more depending on what they eat for lunch/how many tins of the terrible stuff they have before or after school)
None, They can’t buy them due to their age.
Where do you live that Red Bull is age restricted? I’m curious, because anyone can buy it here.
Oh they find ways…
That’s 100% their shitty decision. But even if you don’t buy a red bull for exercise, it’s still only 110 calories. The can says 53% sugar, which is about the same as the amount of carbs in bread. You can easily eat more calories with bread.
Oh I 100% agree it’s their poor decision. The only thing I would say is just because the % of sugar is the same, it doesn’t necessarily mean the same quantity. For example, this white bread company claims only 3 grams of sugar in a loaf of bread (obviously it won’t be the same in every loaf, though I’ve never heard of a loaf of bread containing 36 grams of sugar - though I could be wrong).
The percentage isn’t a percent of the can, it’s a percent of your “Daily Value” which is how much an average person is supposed to have in a day. 100% means it contains the amount you are supposed to have in a day. Not that the can is 100% sugar. So a soda that has 50% DV has the same amount of sugar as bread that has a serving marked as 50% DV.
That’s interesting, I hadn’t known that. But given the maximum daily intake of sugar is around 40 g, I guess that would make sense mathematically. May I ask, is that percentage purely in terms of mass, or is it also in terms of calories?
So since the majority of consumers that drink red bull are sedentary, you’re saying Red Bull would be fine with losing 90% of their market share because their product was intended to be used before intense activity?
Or are they perhaps marketing to exactly that segment because they are as callous as people say?
If you are sedentary, don’t buy it. Or buy an alternative with 0 calories.