Green Coke? Soft drinks with stevia usually contain a lot of sugar

The consumer center warns: Cola with stevia still contains a lot of sugar
Soft drinks are increasingly sweetened with the natural sweetener of the stevia plant. The customer is thus given the impression that the drinks are low in sugar. The consumer center of Lower Saxony warns against such a mistake. The opposite is the case.

New in the drinks shelf and matching the summer season: The Coca-Cola Life is here. The green label suggests naturalness. The Verbraucherzentrale Niedersachsen has tested eight soft drinks for their sugar and calorie content and comes to the conclusion: "There is no trace of naturalness."

Sweet from Stevia
In the Coca-Cola Life water, sugar, flavor and colors are just as contained as in the normal Coke. The only difference is an addition of steviol glycosides. These are obtained from the stevia plant and have a strong sweetening power - but without any calories. But despite Stevia addition contains the Coca-Cola Life, according to the consumer center "still just under eleven cubes of sugar per 0.5 l bottle (about one third less than the normal Coke)." It gets the nutritional value label thus a red.

Still too much sugar
A small bottle of Coca-Cola Life (0.5 liters) contains a total of 34 grams of sugar. With one bottle a day, WHO's recommendation to not take in more than 25-30 grams of sugar per day (25 grams per adult woman, 30 grams per adult man) is well exceeded. The sugar bomb is anything but healthy. Against the background that even adolescents often consume trend drinks, this form of advertising is questionable. For 12-year-olds, the recommended maximum sugar level is even lower (22.5 g). (pm, sb)

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