Diet Irn Bru

[echokilo]

I have recently discovered the above ..... and I now seen to have a genuine addiction to it. Not a problem from a calorie point of view, but fizzy anything is not great for you generally and I wondered if anyone had any idea if there is a specific ingredient in this that makes it addictive. I am drinking it even when not thirsty!!! Can't be good surely?

[nungate]

Just don't spill any of it on a white or pale coloured worktop! It's difficult to get the stain out without using bleach or baby bottle steriliser! Daughter and husband are very fond of this stuff too - though I don't know about being addictive, I can take it or leave it...............prefer diet coke

[echokilo]

Thanks Nungate - I will be extra careful. Don't normally drink fizzy drinks as know it's rough on teeth, but for some reason this has me properly hooked!! Doesn't help that the local "cheap" shop seems to have bought the European mountain of the stuff and so it's 29p a bottle!!!

[Buenchico]

The ingredients are listed as:
Carbonated water, citric acid, flavourings (including caffeine and quinine), sweeteners (acesulfame K, aspartame), preservative (E211), colours (E110, E124), ammonium ferric citrate (0.002%)

There's nothing in there which I'd recognise as addictive (other than caffeine, of course). Equally, there's nothing that's obviously 'bad for you'.
Your craving for the stuff could either be entirely psychological or it could be that a genuine medical condition (such as type 2 diabetes) is making you thirsty and your brain is simply selecting something which it associates with quenching thirst.

Chris

[erin-x]

Diet Irn Bru is the devil! I don't drink it often but when I do it can't be diet =s

[Smowball]

I hate the stuff lol.

[Buenchico]

>>>Don't normally drink fizzy drinks as know it's rough on teeth

It's mainly the sugar in fizzy drinks that might present a dental problem. The stuff you're drinking is sugar-free. (As 'QI' pointed out, eating potatoes is more likely to lead to dental decay than consuming sugar).

[echokilo]

Interesting points Chris - thank you. No concern re diabetes as I am drawn to drinking the stuff when not even thirsty! May it's the caffeine as I don't consume anything else containing caffeine at all. Thanks again :-)

[nungate]

I believe the recipe for Irn Bru is a secret know to very few!

Hey Chris, have you found another feline companion yet?

[Buenchico]

>>>I don't consume anything else containing caffeine at all

Is that POSSIBLE????

At college I used to drink 30 mugs of coffee per day, with 3 teaspoons of Nescafe in each one. (i.e. the equivalent of 90 mugs of coffee per day). I'd sometimes top that up with an entire packet of ProPlus tablets!

I consume less caffeine now but I couldn't live without it!

[erin-x]

I don't have any caffeine either.... Well apart from Pepsi Max. I hate tea and coffee...

[nungate]

I get through about 4 cans of diet coke a day - a couple of which are "unleaded" i.e. caffeine free

[Mamyalynne]

I grounded my 15 year old daughter when I found Pro Plus under her pillow, have never been allowed to forget it lol

[Buenchico]

(With apologies to Echokilo)

For Nungate:
I've been fortunate to get quite a bit of casual work over the past few months, which has meant that my financial position is rather better than it's been for several years. But that's been at the expense of working away from home for up to a week at a time, so I've not been able to invite a new cat into my home.

However I'm sure that I heard a little 'miaow' when I went outside earlier this evening, so your post has prompted me to reach for a tin of catfood so that I can leave a bowl out on the front step. Perhaps I'll have a new friend by Christmas?

[Mamyalynne]

Oh Chris do hope so - that would be great.

[echokilo]

No - no caffeine at all as don't drink tea or coffee and only very very rarely drink diet coke, and only then if there is no option as not keen on it.

And Buenchico: No problem!! And I hope you do have a new furry friend from Santa!! That would be lovely!

[nungate]

Fingers crossed Chris. Good to hear you've been in gainful employment for a while this past wee while, I had to retire early due to my arthritis, retirement is ok but you never seem to get a day off as they say. Life with our four cats is "interesting" only two cats really, the other pair are juvenile delinquents! It's never dull at any rate

[nungate]

I admire your ability to go without caffeine Echo, I can't manage without a daily fix - I'd sleep all day long I think.

[echokilo]

I don't sleep well as it is Nungate so if I ever started drinking it I could probably pass the SAS sleep deprivation training with my eyes closed, so to speak!! ;-)

[Smowball]

I dont think I drink caffeine at all either . I drink caffeine free tea/coffee/coke/pepsi.