On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 5:05:41 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Christopher Helms" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 4:36:00 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> > "sf" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > >
> > > After reading this on Time.com
> > >
> > > If you haven't already, you may want to reconsider your diet soda
> > > habit-especially if you're trying to lose weight. A much-buzzed-about
> > > study published in the journal Nature found that non-caloric
> > > sweeteners such as saccharin (Sweet-n-Low), sucralose (Splenda), and
> > > aspartame (Equal) may mess with the gut bacteria that play a key role
> > > in healthy metabolism. Researchers found a link between these
> > > sweeteners, altered gut microbes, glucose intolerance and metabolic
> > > syndrome (both precursors to Type 2 diabetes) in mice and humans.
> > >
> > > I followed the link to this. It's nothing new, but worth repeating.
> > > http://www.health.com/health/gallery...ow-away-012615
> >
> > Not worth repeating at all and mostly just a bunch of hooey.
>
>
> Speaking of diet soda, though, I've got a question that maybe someone here
> can answer. Nobody at work knows what the deal is, and neither do I. Why is
> it that the 20 oz. bottle of Diet Mountain Dew that I buy at the little
> cooler thing lists 10 calories on the bottle, but the 24 oz. bottles of Diet
> Mountain Dew in the six pack that I buy at Kroger lists 0 calories on the
> bottle? It's the exact same stuff, presumably. It's not that I'm exactly
> sweating over 10 calories, but still, more Dew should get at least a couple
> more calories listed. Not zero, at any rate.
>
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> Just a guess but it might say no calories per serving and not per bottle.


Having checked that out during the course of my late night snacking, that does appear to be the case. The 24 oz. size is considered to be two 12 ounce servings and the 20 ounce is probably one and that's what they're probably going by. It looks like a legal hair splitting thing. They probably don't have to list the calories if its that low a number per serving.