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I know the headline sounds funny, but remember that could kill a diabetic.

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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Put cocaine back in it.

[-] diffusive@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

This was orange juice not coca cola zero (the headline is misleading)

If i have to guess the gymnic was that they add zero additional sugar (but oranges still have sugar).

While I hate these misleading names and i am in favour of this kind of actions; i suspect diabetic people are familiar with this BS and would have read the nutrition facts

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

Lemonade, not orange juice. And no, it was a zero sugar lemonade, artificially sweetened, and they put sugar in it accidentally.

But I agree, the headline should have been worded better.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

so they made it taste like shit for no reason

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I see you're familiar with the Coca-Cola company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 140 points 1 day ago

Coca-Cola has voluntarily recalled 13,152 cases of Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade because it discovered during an internal investigation that cans labeled as Zero Sugar contain full sugar.

Not Coke, it's the lemonade.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

Minute Maid is owned by Coke. That's why the headline says Coke is pulling the drinks.

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 35 points 1 day ago

Headline could be written better, I warned my friend who's sister is a diabetic before realizing its just the lemonade

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

Could've recalled it for being Minute Maid too.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

13k cases is like 30 seconds of production 😂

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You aren’t far off. I’ve been in the Anheuser Busch plant in Cartersville GA about 20 years ago and I swear one line bottled 600 a minute…. Remember thinking how it took two of our plants to keep one of theirs going. You couldn’t see the bottles they moved so fast.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 57 points 1 day ago

The recall was initiated on September 10…

Yay! An urgent thing that happened over a month ago! I sure am glad that people get timely notifications of these events.

[-] myusernameis@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Fun story, the recent meat recall (the second one) affected some salads I bought early September.. we got an email long after we'd eaten them letting us know, and to call "this number" if you'd like a refund.

Sorry, I lied, it wasn't a fun story.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

You should just shit in a box and mail it to them.

[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I'm not quite sure how this would done in a timely-er fashion. Signage in the stores? In theory, anyone paying with plastic could have been contacted through the card company.

That would involve the manufacturer alerting the store, the store alerting all the various card companies, then the card companies alerting the customer. That's a lot of infrastructure to keep running and to do so fast enough that the customer finds out within a day or two of the recall.

Expensive. Worthwhile given the potential to save lives or hospital stays, but you know how companies are.

This would also involve admitting all your purchase history is collected and stored in a way that is not anonymized, which I don't think people would quite like to be explicitly told about.

[-] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago

In Germany, supermarkets typically post product recalls right on the doors or over the shelves of the section that has the affected products. I guess if you bought something you might be less likely to go down that aisle again next time and come across the sign, but (barring a big empty space at the entrance) I think that's the most reasonable place for them to be

[-] Deway@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Same in Belgium and the Netherlands. On the stores website too.

[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Do you ever find there are a lot of these signs at any given time? Having them in a designated area by the entryway then maybe again by the shelf where they stock it seems like a good combination.

In my head I worry it might become overwhelming to the point no one reads them anymore. Though I suppose that could be mitigated with a large image of the recalled product, to make it easier to check at a glance without having to stop and read for a minute. I can't remember ever seeing signage at the shops near me. I wish we had that.

Maybe I'm overthinking it and it's a rarity to ever have more than a couple products be recalled at a single time. Can't say I've put much thought into any of this before.

[-] linuno@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

in my experience, it is rare to see two recalls at the same time in the same store. and yes, there usually is a rather large picture of the product. standard size paper (din a4) where the top half is a picture and the bottom half a description of the recall with info as to why and which batch numbers are affected.

[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Ah okay, I like that implementation. Good to have it be eye-catching and not just a bunch of text. Thanks for letting me know.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

I never even mentioned alerting individual customers. The publication date on the story is TODAY. We can certainly do better than that.

[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

I understood that from your comment. I wasn't contradicting you or challenging what you said, just wondering aloud how we might go about it and pointing out some flaws in my own point.

That said, even if this article was published the day of the recall, I imagine only a minority of the affected purchasers would ever see it. I couldn't say I've ever looked at a recipes website to inform me of important consumer news.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 6 points 21 hours ago

This might possibly be the most civil, respectful misunderstanding I’ve ever seen. I appreciate it.

[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Par for the course with online discussions, I'd say. Always difficult to discern the tone of a comment when it's written down. No harm done.

Cheers!

[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago

Check the label before you drink it, especially if you're watching your sugar intake for medical reasons.

Umm. How would checking the label help? If the drinks were labelled correctly, there would be no reason for a recall.

[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 1 day ago

In this case, they're probably referring to the lot number. The affected numbers are FEB1725CNA and FEB1725CNB for Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade.

If I was told to just check the label, I'd probably also assume they meant the nutrition information. In that case you'd be correct that it wouldn't help you identify the affected drinks because they would be marked as having 0g sugar.

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My favorite zero calorie drink is water.

I feel bad for people's whose stomachs get upset when drinking water, they have to turn to solutions like sugar-free drinks whether they like it or not.

As @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world astutely points out, it's a big deal for a lot of people with dietary issues, diabetics being the most prominent.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago

I have a hard time believing someone can be sick from water but artificial sweetener in water doesn't cause that. Has to be psychosomatic.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago

No, water is really bad if you have unmedicated GERD. I am fairly certain that if I miss a day of meds, the swift intense heartburn is not psychosomatic. I don't know why, but anything with carbonation is much less intense.

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[-] banshee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sugar or high fructose corn syrup?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

HFCS is sugar. Just not cane sugar. And at the end of the day, sugar is sugar and we shouldn't be having it all the time.

[-] banshee@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Yes but I like making cheap jabs at the drink industry.

On a serious note - you're absolutely right to avoid sugar, and I stopped drinking sweetened beverages many years ago. From what I understand though, people would develop fewer health problems if they consumed cane sugar instead of HFCS. Apparently the unbound fructose makes a difference when consuming sugar at such a high volume.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

I'm afraid that HFCS and cane sugar affect your health equally.

https://www.popsci.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup-sugar/

[-] banshee@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Well that was an interesting rabbit hole. There have been a number of new studies in the past decade, and researchers are still investigating the effects of free fructose in sweeteners.

This study is fairly recent: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188419/

This study notes how the actual amount of fructose varies from the expected amount in popular beverages: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900714001920

Every study I read continues to point out that sweeteners with free fructose taste sweeter and have negative health effects in large quantities while stating how results are inconclusive due to excessively caloric intake. I'm still skeptical of HFCS for now.

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