Why Soft Drinks Are Dangerous
Come, let’s try to understand why soft drinks are dangerous. We won’t talk about ‘secret ingredients’ here. The frequent contamination, such as the news that broke out quite some time ago, that pesticides were found in cold drinks.
This happened in 2004, 2006, and 2016. But this was unusual, it doesn’t happen normally. In this article, we’d like to assume, that the soft drinks we are discussing, have no such contaminations. And that it is the unaltered drink, as the company intends to make. Turn the bottle and check the ingredient list.
Take the example of Mirinda, is a brand of PepsiCo. Let’s continue with that example, but you can find a similar brand by Coca-Cola, Fanta. These are the 2 biggest companies. PepsiCo and Coca-Cola. Mirinda and Fanta are competitors. Let’s check their calories. It’s written that 100 ml contains 55 calories. So in a bottle of 600 ml, 55 x 6 = 330 calories.
To draw a comparison, in a bottle, there are as many calories, as in 2 aloo parathas. [potato stuffed bread, fried in oil.] Not only this, if you eat a masala dosa, with a bowl full of sambar, and coconut chutney, the amount of calories you consume, would be as much as this, if not less.
You might think that it is not a big deal. The point is that, when you eat aloo parathas or masala dosas, it will be your lunch. You will feel full with that. But if you drink a bottle of Coca-Cola or Mirinda, will that soothe your hunger? These extra calories are useless. You will need to have lunch or dinner in addition to it.
Also, in normal foods, there’s protein, sodium, potassium, vitamins, fibres, fats, you get many nutrients in it. But what do you get out of this bottle? Empty calories which have no nutrients. There’s only sugar. A high content of sugar. There’s so much sugar that you can’t even believe it.
