Speaker 1: Do you love a sweet, bubbly drink on a warm
Speaker 1: summer's day. Perhaps you're one of those ones that's addicted
Speaker 1: to diet coke, but you're looking for a better alternative. Well,
Speaker 1: on today's episode, we have you covered as we look
Speaker 1: at a growing range of healthier carbonated drinks to the supermarket. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Leon Ward and I'm Cuzy Burrow, and as two
Speaker 1: of the strays leading dietitians, we bring you the Nutrition
Speaker 1: Count Product Review, a weekly chat on new products and
Speaker 1: old favorites that you can find. I'm right here in
Speaker 1: our supermarkets. So, Susie, I'm very curious there's a bubbly,
Speaker 1: sweet drink something that is found in your household.
Speaker 2: Well, Liam, we have to be honest, don't we as dietitians,
Speaker 2: we don't love soft drink. Now, I will be completely
Speaker 2: honest with the listenings here to say that I do
Speaker 2: like a cheeky diet coke, but I do try and
Speaker 2: limit consumption because I'm aware of the research that diet
Speaker 2: soft drinks in general and it's artificially sweetened. But we
Speaker 2: want to be honest here with our listeners, so I do,
Speaker 2: but I do try and limit it. You know, a
Speaker 2: couple of times a week at most. I certainly don't
Speaker 2: encourage them at home for the children, but we do
Speaker 2: at my house drinks soda, water, barkling water. My husband
Speaker 2: does prefer the ones that have got like a flavor
Speaker 2: through them, but that's more something he'll buy it like
Speaker 2: the server. I don't buy them through the week at all,
Speaker 2: but I do have clients who do need or prefer
Speaker 2: some flavor with their fluid. So I think this is
Speaker 2: a great discussion because I love the products that you've
Speaker 2: chosen because they really showcase a few key points that
Speaker 2: we would want our listeners to take home when it
Speaker 2: comes to sugar sweetened drinks. Sorry, drinks that are low
Speaker 2: calorie and sweetened with alternatives to sugar, but are they
Speaker 2: really healthy? Because I see these at the kids' parties
Speaker 2: all the timely end, and I have to be honest,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty distressed at times to see that. You know,
Speaker 2: in our friendship circle, even with kids, they're often still
Speaker 2: consuming soft drinks at parties. So hopefully our listeners will
Speaker 2: find this really helpful for their own families and.
Speaker 1: Definitely in our household. My happy love he's not a
Speaker 1: big water drinker. I've tried every strategy under the sun, Susie,
Speaker 1: but the bulk of his dart is very healthy, thanks
Speaker 1: for his lovely dietitian wife. So he does like a
Speaker 1: little bit of sort of a diet soft drink or
Speaker 1: something a bit sweeter as well. We're not big alcohol drinkers,
Speaker 1: and you know, we have pretty clean and lean made meals,
Speaker 1: so he does regularly have like a lower sugar alternative,
Speaker 1: and one or two that I put in here today
Speaker 1: are the ones that I sort of encourage him to
Speaker 1: get as well. So we do have a little bit
Speaker 1: of sort of what i'd call that sweetened bubbly you drinks,
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, mineral water, soda water there,
Speaker 1: or a completely different thing. What I really look for
Speaker 1: today is some of the better alternatives to regular soft drink.
Speaker 1: I haven't done the mineral waters or the sparkling waters today.
Speaker 1: So the first one that I thought was just important
Speaker 1: to put in is just the standard you know, zero
Speaker 1: sugar soft drink, because I think most of us know
Speaker 1: there's barely any catalies in there from a diabetic perspective,
Speaker 1: you know, low sugar perspective, where of course most of
Speaker 1: us are better to go for a low sugar variety,
Speaker 1: particularly if you're diabetic. So the one that I added
Speaker 1: today was the Swepts Raspberry zero sugar. So it's one
Speaker 1: point one liters and it's two dollars fifty at wolworst,
Speaker 1: so it's nothing, you know, outrageous in terms of price
Speaker 1: all that sort of thing. When you look at like
Speaker 1: one of those body bottles of cokes, if you're buying
Speaker 1: that at the movies or something like that, year easily up,
Speaker 1: it's of four or five dollars. So this is over
Speaker 1: a litter and it's a raspberry flovor, which I chose
Speaker 1: on purpose. And if you look at the ingredient SUSI,
Speaker 1: it's mostly AUSI made like ninety nine percent of serrain ingredients.
Speaker 1: We've got carbonated water as our first ingredient flavors, followed
Speaker 1: by food acids sweetness nine fifteen, nine five two and
Speaker 1: nine five five which are artificial sweetness. We've got preservatives
Speaker 1: in there, and color one two three. Looking at the
Speaker 1: nutrition label, I think today we'll do per hundred mills,
Speaker 1: even though there's really not much of anything in these ones.
Speaker 1: So basically energy, you've got five killer jewels. You were
Speaker 1: like one calorie. There's no protein, there's no fat, there's
Speaker 1: no carbs, there's no sugar, there's obviously no fiber because
Speaker 1: there's nothing in it, and there's just a small amount
Speaker 1: of sodium in there. So basically we're seeing nothing much
Speaker 1: on the nutrition label, but we are getting a fair
Speaker 1: whack of these artificial colors in there. So color one,
Speaker 1: two three in some other countries, such as America, has
Speaker 1: really been banned or sort of taken out of a
Speaker 1: lot of products. The UK has made a big shift.
Speaker 1: It hasn't necessarily banned it, but it's made a big
Speaker 1: shift to just recommend that parents don't really give this
Speaker 1: to kids too much because there has been i would
Speaker 1: say a small amount of research to say than some
Speaker 1: children and adults or more sensitive these types of artificial
Speaker 1: colors can cause, you know, behavioral disturbances ADHD type symptoms.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting that we're still in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: adding artificial colors into different products, particularly like soft Trick.
Speaker 1: So this for me, I don't care that it has
Speaker 1: zero calories and zero sugar. I would not be recommending
Speaker 1: it to my clients because of the added colors.
Speaker 2: I agree one hundred percent so when you look at
Speaker 2: the research around zero type soft drinks with artificial sweetener,
Speaker 2: it's not great, you know, in terms of certainly if
Speaker 2: we can find natural sweetness, and this hasn't got just
Speaker 2: one artificial sweetener, it's got three different ones to give
Speaker 2: that incredibly sweet flavor. Which is the last thing, because
Speaker 2: let's be honesty, and this is a product really marketed
Speaker 2: for kids and teenagers, like it's bright red, So certainly
Speaker 2: that level of sweetness is not what I would want
Speaker 2: to encourage in any young person across the board. And
Speaker 2: I'm with you one hundred percent. And it's actually the
Speaker 2: artificial sweetness combined with that preservative, which is too a
Speaker 2: lo in which some of the neurological research has been
Speaker 2: done and it's early stages, but they believe there's an
Speaker 2: interaction between the artificial sweetener and the preservatives in diets
Speaker 2: of drinks. But that color is what we would call
Speaker 2: an artificial color. I think they should be banned in
Speaker 2: the food supply as soon as I see to have
Speaker 2: a heart attack. So it's also you see it in
Speaker 2: the bright orange, the bright blue. There's a blue fanter
Speaker 2: out at the moment, slurpies and notorious for that, and
Speaker 2: at a party I was a recently, the kids are
Speaker 2: walking around with slurpies and with had a heart attack.
Speaker 2: So anything that is not the natural color of food,
Speaker 2: you know, this bright pink, this bright blue, it's not
Speaker 2: good for us. You know, I don't think you need
Speaker 2: a degree in nutrition to think that's probably not the
Speaker 2: best thing for growing small children, let alone any of us.
Speaker 2: And I think they should be banned these colors in general.
Speaker 2: So absolutely it would be an absolute no grow from me.
Speaker 2: And I am quite strict with that with my kids.
Speaker 2: I've said before, I'm not overly strict in my kids
Speaker 2: in terms of dessert or treats, but I will not
Speaker 2: have any kind of soft drink or color drink ever
Speaker 2: that I'm in control of. And as you can imagine,
Speaker 2: if it slips in through grandparents have a heart attack.
Speaker 2: So certainly it's a big it's a big no from
Speaker 2: me on anything that's bright pink and red. And for
Speaker 2: those reasons, the artificial color and also the mix of
Speaker 2: artificial sweeteners.
Speaker 1: And then the next time of Tros and Susie is
Speaker 1: an interesting one because David really likes this one, and
Speaker 1: I said to him, right if you're gonna have this
Speaker 1: in the house, and you know, me is going to
Speaker 1: grow up knowing that had daddy.
Speaker 2: Likes this sort of stuff, I want to.
Speaker 1: Have something that's a little bit better. So we sort
Speaker 1: of settled on this one because it does have a
Speaker 1: little bit of artificial sweetness in it, but it's much
Speaker 1: more natural from a color perspective, and it doesn't have
Speaker 1: that overly sweetener that artificial taste of the sweetness as well.
Speaker 1: So it's the Waterford's mineral water apple berry. But to me,
Speaker 1: even though it's a mineral water, it tastes like a
Speaker 1: soft drink, and I'm not a big soft drink drinker.
Speaker 1: So a very small glass of this at dinner, watered
Speaker 1: down with just a little bit of cold water and
Speaker 1: some ice, to me is like a really really lovely
Speaker 1: treat Like it definitely doesn't have that terrible artificial sort
Speaker 1: of sweetness taste afterwards, which is nice. So it's a
Speaker 1: dollar nine if I have at woolworst for a litter
Speaker 1: and if you look at the ingredients. So I've gone
Speaker 1: the waterfalls the apple berry one. They also do a
Speaker 1: lemon lime one, and I think there's from a memory
Speaker 1: like a lime flavor as well, or maybe a mango
Speaker 1: or something. There's a couple of different flavors in the range,
Speaker 1: so this one's an apple berry one. Carbonated water is
Speaker 1: the first ingredient, followed by reconstituted juice, so it's got
Speaker 1: apple four point nine percent and raspberry point one percent,
Speaker 1: so it's actually flavored with a little bit of reconstituted juice, which, yes,
Speaker 1: from a sugar perspective, there's a little bit in there,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's the worst thing. When I
Speaker 1: run through the nutrition label as well, there's also a
Speaker 1: little bit of food acid, some natural flavor, some preservatives,
Speaker 1: some sweetness, same as the one before, nine two five,
Speaker 1: nine five five and nine point fifty, with a little
Speaker 1: bit of black carrot concentrate, some natural color source from
Speaker 1: black carrot, so they're adding the color in there in
Speaker 1: a more natural way. So this is far better than
Speaker 1: the added color one two three in the previous SWEPS
Speaker 1: raspberry one that we've seen. So going to the nutrition
Speaker 1: panel again, I'll do per hundred miles, we have twelve
Speaker 1: killer jules in terms of energy, so what's that four
Speaker 1: calories zero proteins are a fat zero point five grams
Speaker 1: of carbs zero point four grams of that being sugar,
Speaker 1: So yes, there is a little bit of natural sugar
Speaker 1: from the reconstituted juice, but it's zero point four grams
Speaker 1: per hundred mils. So if you're just having a small
Speaker 1: cup of this or a small amount of this, or
Speaker 1: you're watering it down with a little bit of water
Speaker 1: like I like to do, it's only a very small
Speaker 1: amount of sugar compared to something like a fool sugar
Speaker 1: soft drink, and obviously no fiber with fourteen milligrams of sodium,
Speaker 1: which is barely anything. So I like this one as
Speaker 1: a little bit of an in between between then you know,
Speaker 1: really artificial type soft drinks and then also the ones
Speaker 1: with the added colors. So yes, it has some artificial
Speaker 1: sweetness in there. There's a little bit of natural sugars
Speaker 1: as well, and of course it's free from the added
Speaker 1: colors as well, So I don't mind this as sort
Speaker 1: of like an in between option. And definitely this is
Speaker 1: David's favorite one from like a taste perspective. He often
Speaker 1: has this one. And if we do have you know,
Speaker 1: friends over all that sort of thing, I will pull
Speaker 1: out this if I have friends that are pregnant or
Speaker 1: not drinking all that sort of thing. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a nice sort of in between one, and I
Speaker 1: do sometimes recommend this one for my clients as well.
Speaker 1: Despite there being a little bit of added sugar in there,
Speaker 1: it's nothing like the teaspoons and tea spoons that you
Speaker 1: would find in a normal soft drink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. This has been around for a
Speaker 2: really long time, this brand. I remember when I first
Speaker 2: worked in the hospitals and this came out, this product,
Speaker 2: and you're right, it does have quite a nice flavor
Speaker 2: and looks like anything in moderation. I wouldn't be against it.
Speaker 2: It's not my go to pick, but I'm not the
Speaker 2: consumer of this brand. I think a lot of it's
Speaker 2: to do with taste, because I think if things taste good,
Speaker 2: and obviously said David quite likes it, so it's got
Speaker 2: a nice flavor. But if I was being nutrition purist,
Speaker 2: I would say, where possible, seek out and naturally sweetened products.
Speaker 2: So as soon as you see those nine fifties, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be keen and I certainly wouldn't be keen for
Speaker 2: children to be consuming those based on the evidence that
Speaker 2: it primes us to want more sweet food long term,
Speaker 2: and as such we also to wrap up our products.
Speaker 2: Have found probably what we would call the standout. So
Speaker 2: if we were rating then we would say, well, the
Speaker 2: artificial color and sweetness sort of the ideal of the worst,
Speaker 2: followed by then the artificial sweetener. But then you've been
Speaker 2: great and found what we would probably call the gold
Speaker 2: standard if it comes for a sweetened drink, which is
Speaker 2: the next range, and they've got a growing range in supermarkets.
Speaker 2: I've seen with a much well, I think it's a
Speaker 2: much better nutritional panel. And you would have seen these
Speaker 2: bottles because they're right through supermarket. It's the next bar
Speaker 2: drinks range. They've got a really extensive range. I want
Speaker 2: to say, they've got butcher, they've got water.
Speaker 1: They do, yeah, they've got cans, they've got the soft
Speaker 1: drink bottles.
Speaker 2: A lot of different products in supermarkets. So you've picked
Speaker 2: the sugar free pineapple sparkling infusion. Has David had this one?
Speaker 1: He has? He really likes. We often had this and
Speaker 1: the pineapple flavor. I'm just going to put it out there, guys.
Speaker 1: Is delicious, it's nice.
Speaker 2: And it's actually and well, is it more expensive? No,
Speaker 2: it's about the same.
Speaker 1: We're two dollars fifty. It's on sale at the moment.
Speaker 2: We can't get them on sale, so that's a bonus.
Speaker 2: So two is fifty if it's not on sale. Always
Speaker 2: liked to buy things on sale. Perserved twenty killer or
Speaker 2: so next to nothing. They're no protein, fat as you'd expect,
Speaker 2: minimal carbohydrate in significant at zero point one, and no
Speaker 2: sodium actually, which is interesting because I think in the
Speaker 2: other examples they've had a little tiny bit, which is interesting.
Speaker 2: This has got absolutely none. But if we look at
Speaker 2: the ingredied, it's a much cleaner list. So we've got
Speaker 2: purified sparkling water the next, but natural sweetener blend which
Speaker 2: is a erythrotol, and Stevia citric acid, which is just
Speaker 2: to get the bubbliness right of the water. Natural flavors,
Speaker 2: natural pineapple flavor, natural color, very important, and it's said
Speaker 2: that the erythrotol is naturally produced by the fermentation of
Speaker 2: starches and fruits and vegetables. So it's got no preservatives,
Speaker 2: which is a major standout for me because preservatives in
Speaker 2: small amount amounts aren't bad for us, but sometimes as
Speaker 2: chemicals they do interact and as I said, there is
Speaker 2: some research to show that sodium benzoate, which is a
Speaker 2: common preservative in soft drink, can interact with sweeteners and
Speaker 2: they believe has some neurological impact long term. So as
Speaker 2: I said, it's in its early stages of research, but
Speaker 2: that has been flagged in studies before. So to have
Speaker 2: a product like this with no preservatives, let alone sodium
Speaker 2: benzoate is really fantastic and made in Australia from ninety
Speaker 2: five percent of Australia ingredients. So if I was recommending
Speaker 2: a product, I generally say I don't go for WATERFS
Speaker 2: because it's got artificial sweetener. Certainly, I'm a much bigger
Speaker 2: fan of this range of drinks, and you can find
Speaker 2: them freely in supermarket, which is important because you need
Speaker 2: to be able to pick them up as part of
Speaker 2: the weekly shop and not have to go to specialty
Speaker 2: stores to find these products. So that is absolutely I
Speaker 2: think you would agree with me our standout. If you
Speaker 2: like a sweet drink, really seek out, particularly for children,
Speaker 2: the natural sweetness and no preservatives and natural colors. Now
Speaker 2: we would always say water should be the drink of choice.
Speaker 2: If you were giving this to children, I would say,
Speaker 2: no more than one very small cup a day. But
Speaker 2: it's like anything, it's personal choice how you run your
Speaker 2: family and their intake, and this would be our pick,
Speaker 2: particularly if you're having parties and you wanted to give
Speaker 2: the kids something that was a bit sweet up. This
Speaker 2: would absolutely be my pick, even over for juice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and personally, I mean, I can't talk to me.
Speaker 1: He's not at the age where she would have this,
Speaker 1: but I like to think that I wouldn't even be
Speaker 1: giving this to me, even in a small copper day.
Speaker 1: This would be more like a treat based thing, even
Speaker 1: though it is a lot a lot healthier. There's no
Speaker 1: sugars in it because just as you mentioned, it is
Speaker 1: so overly sweet. If I did give her a little
Speaker 1: bit at absolutely water, and I would still treat this
Speaker 1: like a you know, sometimes treat based food or drink
Speaker 1: versus something that's like regularly sort of available as well.
Speaker 1: So as she grows up, I will be very careful
Speaker 1: that David is limiting the amount of these sorts of
Speaker 1: things that we do have in their household, because, as
Speaker 1: you've said, it's very easy once they become teens and
Speaker 1: they make their own money for them to then go
Speaker 1: to you know, places like seven to eleven and get
Speaker 1: a slurp. You'll go to McDonald's and get one of
Speaker 1: the iced you know, rispberry drinks or something like that,
Speaker 1: And I think as kids and teens, they have a
Speaker 1: hard time knowing that this really sweet yellow drink is
Speaker 1: any different to the sweet red drink that they'll get
Speaker 1: at a birthday party as well. So I think limiting
Speaker 1: this overall for our children is really important. But definitely
Speaker 1: choosing the healthy arrange if it is a bit of
Speaker 1: a celebration or a birthday party or a bit of
Speaker 1: a treat for the week as well. So I definitely
Speaker 1: this is one that I recommend for the majority of
Speaker 1: my clients as well. It's a really great brand and
Speaker 1: it's bussy. It's made from Austrainan ingredients as well, which
Speaker 1: I think is great, great find, wonderful all right, guys, Well,
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