Whilst acidic, these drinks will struggle to damage your teeth unless you keep a mouthful in your gob for a week. The actual concentration of acid is pretty low but yes moderation is of course advisable.

It's calorie free, slightly acidic carbonated flavoured water. There is nothing in it that warrants significant or specific health concerns particularly, as you have mentioned, in moderation. :smiley:

Where is it 'regularly 80p - £1'? It's been 89p in B&M recently, but other than that i can't recall it being less than 99p for about two years.

very hot, i buy this regularly and £1 a bottle is the standard 'deal'

Hot deal

Bargain!!! Thanks OP

Combined with staff discount even better.

Voted hot, proper supermarket deal available to ALL rather than the tedious "hot!!" Tesco chases that are available to the OP only, 99% of the time!!

Heat from me

Yes that will even make it cheaper at £0.60 per bottle.... :smirk:

Get some Russian Standard to go with this!

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/russian-standard-vodka-70cl-11-sainsbury-s-2300740

very hot, i buy this regularly and £1 a bottle is the standard 'deal'

Hot hot hot! Website says you can only buy twenty, so that means eighteen (6x3) is the maximum for this offer really.

£1 is the 'usual' price

Brilliant much better deals always available on Pepsi and is a better "mixer" than Coca Cola. -which probably why so many pubs seemed to have switched over to Pepsi these days ?

Where is it 'regularly 80p - £1'? It's been 89p in B&M recently, but other than that i can't recall it being less than 99p for about two years.

Will keep the kids happy :smiley:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/pepsi-max-diet-pepsi-regular-2lt-bottles-including-33-extra-free-only-69p-poundstretcher-2268207

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/pepsi-1-5litres-33-extra-free-89p-b-m-2261476

Been 89p in b&m and home and bargains for months, probably the same in pound stretcher too, it's 80p in wilkinsons at the moment

BTW i'm not trying to plop on this deal (voted hot), was just saying who needs 20+ bottles.

Not coming up in my M Local :disappointed: shows as £1 each reduced from £2.09

Voted hot though, wish there was a big morrisons near me

how much can you buy, is there a a limit?

Voted hot because this is a good deal but PLEASE ENJOY IN MODERATION; this stuff is highly acidic and will destroy your teeth. Also don't kid yourselves into thinking that, just because it's calorie-free, it isn't bad for you.

"unless you keep a mouthful in your gob for a week"

Made me Chuckle!!! :smiley:

​buy 3 and the till takes a£1 off.

Thanks for posting heat added!

I wonder if they Just don't want their Pepsi too hot XD

No i tried and it said £3. Only offer on screen was -1.09 under each bottle

Is this on cherry max too?

quite a bargain！

No limit, bought 20 bottles for Christmas parties, work an home

​Instore. Yes. On screen on fone/tablet/laptop etc...who knows

3 for £2, deal!

​What's funny about that.....I bet there is loads of idiots on here who post pathetic comments......

Aldi's coke zero is just as good and cheaper :smiley:

​me,when I'm in the mood I can down 6/8 litre of max/cherry Max a day

wilkos also have 2l for 90p each :smiley:

Lets not kid ourselves here this stuff is not good for you in any shape or form. Yes if you are addicted and have to drink it then as said previously in moderation. Normal and diet cola is contributing to our obesity rise.

Have a glass of iced water with a slice of lemon. Much cheaper, more refreshing and good for you.

Nothing beats a chilled 2l bottle of water stuffed with sliced lemons.

However these calorie free drinks are great to cut out sugar cravings, its especially helpful if you're dieting.

how on earth is diet cola contributing to obesity?

it's calorie free. sugar free. flavoured water. the perfect drink for losing weight.

diet drinks don't have sugar and calories.....doesn't mean there good for you. drank in moderation like anything else won't do you any harm though, if however you guzzle the stuff by the gallon thinking its fine as its diet then your kidding yourself.

​i agree,I used to drink a hell of a lot of full fat cola drinks. reached near 20 St and thought sod this I need to loose weight, cut out pot noodles, pork scratchings and switched to diet/max varieties and dropped to 13 St,now happily on 14st and still drinking sugar free varieties no weight gain.waters ok,but it's boring,cherry Max ice cold cannot be beaten

I think your statement that cola is contributing to obesity is something you need to back up before telling people to drink water, after all pepsi has been around since 1898 so thats 117 years to be precise. We live in a world that's not good for us in some way or another!

bring on the diabetes!

Mexico
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/mexico-soda-tax-sugar-obesity-health

I'm suprised noone has jumped in with how "aspartame is the devil poison and will burn your insides out" rubbish yet

Mexico really !

As stated the acid isn't great for you but the main baddies in this are caffeine (fine in moderation) and aspartame (nasty stuff - Aspartame: By Far the Most Dangerous Substance Added to Most Foods Today)

Brilliant Thanks, we get through lots of this and generally buy it in 6x2l from Costco which works out around 85p per bottle but its a good drive for us so this is great

yes. it's a well documented case where there is a direct relationship between drinking large amounts of fizzy drinks and obesity and diabetes.

just because it's not ingerlund it doesn't mean that fizzy drinks don't have the same effect on the human body.

i can tell your reward centres are completely ruined by sugar. you should be thankful high fructose corn syrup is banned in the EU.

I'm afraid this is definitely not available at Local Morrisons. 3 for £3.

Is it national?

Woohoo, rot your teeth and get fat for next to nothing. Ace :smiley:.

Is this a national deal?

STOCK UP

You do realise that was only in the USA right? :confused:

good deal but is this really worthy of hottest deal of the day?

​ohh i didnt actually know that, what about pepsi max has that also changed?

I went yesterday and bought 2 bottles- there were no signs for this promotion, otherwise I would have bought the third! :disappointed:

Also Pepsi max was labelled up as £1.99 for a 2l bottle, only Pepsi and diet Pepsi were labelled up as £1!

Hmmm, that doesn't make sense. All I can tell you is new Diet Pepsi bought in the UK about a month ago had a really unpleasant after-taste - everyone in the household commented on it and we haven't bought any since...

Tell that to Starbucks fans. There's less caffeine in a can of this than a cup of tea or coffee.

Also your link is to mercola, possibly the worst source of information ever. It's full of misinformation and pills to buy.

Is that in a country where the only easily accessible drinking water is in the capital and where there are no proven health benefits as of yet? Sales have gone down yes but what's to stop people switching to other high calorie alternatives like fruit juice? People can simply buy cheaper brands.

It's a regressive tax and one that would only work, in terms of likely reduction in obesity rates, with significantly higher rates of tax.

Key words there being "large amounts". The key to obesity, and thus generally diabetes, is calories. You can have a sugar or even carb free diet but if you consume too many calories of fat and protein etc, you will gain weight.

"Reward centres"? If you're suggesting sugar is addictive then that is simply not true and it seems to me that people tend to confuse the pleasure of enjoying something with "addiction".

HFCS is banned in the EU? What on earth have you been reading? It's not at all. It tends to be called glucose-fructose syrup or isoglucose in the EU. Sugar is sugar, one form can't be worse than another whether in fruit, honey or HFCS.

In the USA it did to try to combat falling sales even though soda consumption has decreased overall there I think. The recipe hasn't changed here thankfully. :smiley:

Maybe it was psychological? Or a bad batch? Switch to max, much better imo. :stuck_out_tongue:

I understand what your saying but i really don't think they help dieters. In fact it adds to your cravings because your body is expecting high sugar calories and it gets nothing but gas and e numbers.

http://www.emaxhealth.com/8782/diet-sodas-do-cause-obesity-study-finds

Cigarettes have been around since 1865 does that make them healthy?
Coca Cola and Pepsi are multi billion pound industries doing all they can to keep you addicted to sugared water. You don't really need hundreds of studies to understand that surely it cannot be good for your body ?

​sorry but as soon as you read "new study found that drinking diet sodas is a direct cause of obesity in at least one special subset of Americans" you know it's not a balanced and unbiased study. whatever the experts claim from personal experience 2000-2500 calories a day and as much diet/zero drinks as I fancy and my weight has been steady for years now.

Where does it say Pepsi ???

I agree I have drank it for years and its not made me gain weight or become a diabetic, and the so called link for emax health which was posted on the subject does not say pepsi, unless I missed it

Pork scrathchings ohhhhhhhhhhhhh love em, except when I chipped a tooth on them they had to go :smile:

That Poundstretcher deal turned out to be in only one store, if you read through the comments. The Wilkos offer is a store specific clearance offer, only the Cherry Max version reduced in mine. So there really hasn't been a better offer nationwide on Pepsi than this in a long time.

Please try to critically analyse what you read. This limited study consisted of 749 senior citizens, only 474 made it to follow up. A correlation was found which would perhaps warrant further study because a correlation does not mean causation. Crucially, the study does not count any other form of nutrition i.e. calories. It is also one small study, you have to look at all of the available evidence before you even think about making a conclusion. Here is a meta-analysis that looks at 24 studies if you fancy a long read but it showed that using diet drinks in place of high calorie drinks resulted in weight loss. There is nothing in diet drinks to cause weight gain and there is little evidence to support it.

You can't be addicted to sugared water and you can't be addicted to calorie free, flavoured water. Nothing is good for your body in large quantities.

There are many multi-billion pound companies and they all want you to buy their stuff. More importantly, no one is forcing you to buy any products. For example, advertising has llittle influence on making people buy things unless it is for a brand new product.

I pretty much just cleared out Morrisons in Scunthorpe with a friend. Took all the Cherry Pepsi and about 40 bottles of Pepsi/pepsi max.

No one battered an eyelid so max quantity doesn't seem to be an issue

Did not work in store for me at Morrisons in Mitcham! Bought 6 bottles, was charged £6, they said it had to be ordered on the website

​Advertising has little influence. You sir are trully brainwashed. Why do you think they spend millions on advertising? Sponsoring sports events to make it seem healthy. Come up with new names. Coca Cola Life

'no calories. no sugar. perfectly fine.'

I'm just going to leave that line there because it succinctly shows how much research you have done into the subject.

Why do so many of you think that weight gain is the worst thing a substance can do to you?

By that logic crack cocaine is a gift from the divine.

Yeah ignore all my points and pick one you think you can tear apart. :stuck_out_tongue: Ask any economist, they will tell you the same thing. Advertising is to increase market share of a product group. If coke doesn't spend millions, then Pepsi would be the only brand with advertising and increase its market share enormously. Think about toothpaste, pet food and toilet paper, or even clothes why do adverts exist for those? You already use toilet paper (hopefully!) and toothpaste, the adverts aren't trying to get you to start using them, they're trying to get you to buy their brand and increase their market share.


Coke doesn't sponsor sporting events to get a healthy image, and I don't know who thinks that or what they say to show they have a healthy image, they just have banners, commercials etc. It's mainly because sporting events are watched by billions therefore they get the most bang for their advertising buck.

Coca cola life is an attempt at being "healthier" but only what consumers perceive as "healthier" i.e. Less natural sugar and natural sweeteners.

What research have you done? It's a lazy argument to basically say "do your research". :wink:

? no, please explain

do you have a peer reviewed source that contradicts my claim?

they've done no research, because there is no evidence for the claims against artificial sweeteners, or diet sodas in general.

none.

if they want to prove me wrong, i'm all ears. just one peer reviewed study that concludes artificial sweeteners/diet soda is bad for humans in normal consumption levels will do. just one :smiley:

Not on offer in my local? Ticket £1.00 no mention of the offers?

I personally haven't done any research (I'm not a scientist), but you are just turning your head if you want to pretend that the effects of acidic soft drinks are negligible to the human body.

The acid will not your teeth and along with the carbonation will contribute to cause reflux. Anecdotal evidence can tell you that. The chemicals inside of diet soft drinks are not designed to benefit you. In fact there is absolutely no nutritional benefit to drinking diet soft drinks (even regular Coke or Pepsi is better for you in small quantities).

But I'm not exactly going to pull up articles from healthy living websites that you could easily find for yourself just to prove a point, At the end of the day if you're happy making yourself feel lousy, go nuts!

diet coke = flavoured, carbonated water, with caffeine and no sugar. that's it.

fruit juice is far worse - so much sugar, no fibre.

Just bought 21 bottles in total for Christmas and new year

Hot! Just got a few in my local.

Picked up 3 bottles of Pepsi Max for my rumathon later this month

​You believe that unnaturally flavoured chemical drink with caffeine is the better choice ?
The world has gone mad.
No sugar and thats it ? A chemically made sweetener added you seem to be forgetting.

You believe that because something is unnatural or "chemically made", when everything is made of chemicals, it's bad for you?

The world has gone mad. :stuck_out_tongue:

Look at all these chemicals in a fruit!


Sucrose is a chemical, ascorbic acid is chemical etc. "Chemicals" are not just used whenever someone feels like it. They are approved for use and regularly reassessed to monitor and ensure safety and suitability.

Seems to be the same at Morrison's Eccles too.

Good deal although I have discovered Vive cola ZX that Aldi do for 39p is pretty good having been a life long pepsi drinker prior!

I've been checking my local in Bath. A sign appeared yesterday. £1 a bottle or £2 for 3 bottles. Offer ends 20th October!

Deal was too hot for Morrisons to handle. Been in store today now £1 a bottle. No multi discount.