Always Coca-Cola. (Coca-Cola)

Member Name: LoolooMe

Product:	Coca-Cola
Date:	30/07/09 (25 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great taste.

Disadvantages: Health benifits, a tad pricy.

Coca-Cola is the original and quite simply the best cola drink out there. Interesting pub quiz fact the name derives from the original recipe where the Coca leaf was used until .

*Why is it the best?*
It's all in the taste. It comes in plastic bottles (Large 1.5l, medium 1l and personal size 750ml) Small glass bottles and cans. I can not stand the taste out of cans, love it out of glass bottles -or poured into a glass, and it's fine out of plastic.

*What Coke is good for?*
Soft-drink cravings, marathan running, a quick burst when you need quick sugar.

*Why is it bad?*
- the sugar will rot your teeth (don't believe me do the classic shell into coke and watch it dissolve)
- Your body, as much as I love it then it can't be good for you as it has such a low pH.
- the sugar will make your kids go hyper! Or you if you are prone to it.
- The caffine will keep you up.
- I know stories of people becoming addicted to it, my guess is due to the caffine.

*My Experience with it*
I drink it very rarly for two reasons. Firstly I recognise that it isn't as good for you as water or fruit juice -in fact it's positivly bad for you, so I don't like drinking too much of it. Secondly I only enjoy it when I have a craving for it.

As I drink it so infrequently I suffer none of the bad health side effects such as roting teeth. I make sure that I don't drink it after 6pm as the caffine will keep me up.

Marathan runners once told me that they walk the track the day before and leave coke cans with additional dissolved sugar at certain points so that it gives them the quick sugar that they need. I know diabetics which also use it when they have low blood sugar, but as they drink the diet one they don't actually like the taste of regular coke.

*Should my children have it?*
I had it lots as a kid, my parents did moderate my intake so that I didn't stay up too late, but I still probably drank a glass a day and I haven't noticed any bad side effects and I still have all of my teeth.

So in moderation it's fine. Don't give it to kids which are sensitive to sugar or who need to sleep. For an adult make your own choices based on health.

*Value for money*
As stated above coca-cola is the best tasting coke. I can't explain why, the other ones just taste a little bit flat and too sweetened. You do pay for it though, but as it should only be a rare treat then it is probably worth that little bit extra.

*Life saving advice*
If you don't have any rehydration salts on you, then subsitute coke for them. Also when travelling in countries with unfit water then I always drink coke as it is hard to fake, and watered down coke is instantly recognisable. Well truth be told now that I've grown up I drink alcohol instead.

Summary: A good treat in moderation.