Diet Coke uses phenylalanine
Coke Zero uses Splenda.
Facts on both: Phenylalanine as presented by great sites including Wikipedia.
phenylalanine, also called aspartame, is an amino acid. Specificaly, it's an isolated amino acid. Most amino acids are compound structures.It's a proteine that is found naturally but with other proteins to aid digestion. By seperating this protein out alone, and synthesizing it, we get aspartame. The natural form is called L- and the synthesized form is called D- form. the L- form is essential as it can be broken down by the body into tyrosine. D- form can only be covered by the human body into phenylethylamine. Usually this by product is expelled by the human body as it has no nutrional value and can be harmful if retained since it is a neuro toxin. However, some people have disorders in their body that prevent them from getting rid of this crap. Also, too much consumption of phenylalaine by ANYONE can cause the body to build up more of this crap faster then it can get rid of it. There is another use of this product in the production of PLASTICS and RADIATOR FLUID.
Drinking Diet Coke is bad. Look on the label of any diet product and you'll see in BOLD LETTERS "contains phenylalaine" as required by the FDA.
Now, Splenda has to be better right? Think again.
Splenda, aka sucralose, is a clorinated sugar molecule. "Say what?" is something you might be thinking. The idea for Sucralose came from SALT. Regular table salt is also called SODIUM CHLORIDE. It's a naturally occuring chemical bonding of sodium, which isn't consumable in pure form by humans, and cholrine which is a toxic gas in it's pure form. Together, they form an element essential to the human body. Also, the bond for regular table salt is so strong that it takes over 800 degree farenheit to start to break it. Or a voltage of over 10,000 volts. This is how chlorine gas it produced, by running a live current through salt water and collecting the gas vapors that rise off the water.
Now, sugar is already a naturally occuring chemical molecule with it's owm chemical bond. Some scientist noticed that while salt plays an important role in the human metabolism, it is NEVER BROKEN DOWN. Our bodies can not seperate the sodium from the chlorine which protects us from their dangerous effects and the toxicity of their pure forms. So this genius thought if they could add a chlorine molecule to a sugar molecule and get it to "bond" then the body may also have a hard time breaking it down.
After research, it was finally done with moderate success. This is how Splenda, aka sucralose works. It's a sugar moleule bonded with chlorine which changes it from sucrose to sucralose (the new name for it). This still leaves the "taste" of sugar and sweetness but without the ability for our bodies to break down the sugar and metabolise it. Without breaking it down for metaboling it into energy, we get no caloric value from it. Right? Wrong. The problem with Splenda is that the bond is NOT NATURAL. As such it is NOT AS STRONG. It's been proven the average human body can break down at LEAST 16% of any consumed amount of sucralose. Without breaking it down it wouldn't taste sweet at ALL. So what does breaking it down do? it gives us normal sugar (sucrose) and chlorine. YAY, just what I want in my body, when I'm trying to drink a "diet" drink. Calories and chlorine.
Why don't soda making companies just put Sodium pentinol in our drinks and be done with it already?
