Huffington Post - Caramel Coloring in Soda: What You Should Know About This Innocent-Sounding Ingredient

By Michael F. Jacobson, Center for the Science in the Public Interest
February 16, 2011

"Food marketers have long had a special knack for euphemism... One such case is an innocent-sounding ingredient that appears on Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and other soft drinks: 'caramel coloring.' Now, I've long urged Americans to drink less soda. It's a nutritionally worthless beverage that provides nothing of benefit to the diet, but whose sugars promote weight gain, obesity, diabetes, and other health problems. Another typical soda ingredient, phosphoric acid, rots teeth. Caffeine is a mildly addictive stimulant drug..."

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