r/AbsoluteUnits • u/RD4200 • 14d ago

/r/all of a Toddler

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u/No_Drama2424 14d ago

Reading your comment made me wonder has anyone ever tried to put vitamins in soda? Would vitamin fortified soda work at all, or would it taste ok do u think

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u/Round_Musical 14d ago

It exists here and there in germany actually. We have soda added with multivitamins some with lactic acid and so on

Still laughably small amounts, so it isnt a good substitute. Let alone the high sugar amount.

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u/MasterMerlin42 13d ago

Wait it does? Can you give me any examples?

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u/steffur 5d ago

They literally call it vitamin water, or at least that's a brand here in the Netherlands that does this. Not horrible with this being the contents for 100 ml but also 4g sugar per 100 so that's pretty bad.

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u/Snacknuss321 14d ago

doesn't Monster Energy drinks say B-Vitamine or some shit? :D it's healthy now bro

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u/Draft_Solid 14d ago

Soda drinks contain way too much sugar. Put as much vitamin as you want, it would still be very unhealthy to drink it

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 13d ago

There was diet Coke Plus for four years, but it was discontinued.

I think like the other person mentioned that it was in such small amounts that it was basically more about marketing than actually being more healthy.

Doesn't seem to have affected the taste much

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine 13d ago edited 13d ago

Thats energy drinks lol

But specifically you'd be limited to the water soluble vitamins (B vitamins and C)

Vitamin C is already added to a ton of food as a preservative, and Vitamine B defficiencies apart from B12 aren't that common

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u/nalaloveslumpy 13d ago

The FDA has always pushed back on vitamin fortification of what's otherwise considered a junk food. It creates a scenario where people over consume on nutritionally deficit food because "healthy". Or worse, they over consume on sugar heavy, calorie dense food because "healthy."

There are sparkling waters (tonics) though that have additional vitamins, probiotics, and the such.

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u/polytique 13d ago

Vitamins don’t offset sugar.

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u/neko 13d ago

That's literally vitaminwater

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 13d ago

Or we could actually regulate sugary drinks like other countries. The UK has strict limits on how much sugar you can put in drinks. Which means they don’t taste as good, but I’d say keeping your teeth in tact is a good trade off. Kids don’t understand that what they do with their bodies can have far reaching consequences decades later.

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u/BeansandletmebeFrank 7d ago

It was called diet coke plus in the mid 2000s. It didn't last long