How about my Splenda that I put in my coffee? Is that bad?
Favorite energy drink
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Costco products are more regional than you'd think. We have lots of Indian cuisine products in here in the Seattle area that I bet are not carried in Arkansas or Vermont Costco's.
My favorite energy drink is a double espresso with half and half.
Yes. Rehab is yummy.
Except many are adding sweetner like me...a Splenda for each cup.
Black coffee for me.
Correct when we see a item that may be less than 1% of a overall diet It becomes meaningless to me.
You think a person eating white bread 3 times a day be better well ya know its just bread
How would you know the percentage and based on what?
Some of these energy drinks have as much caffeine in one serving as 2-3 cups of coffee. So volume wise it may be 1%, but content wise it may be 2%-3% all of the sudden. And it starts to stack up pretty quickly once you have multiple serving per day.
Nobody ever said multiple a day and maybe have one once a week.
I'd defend alcohol the same way I may have beer on a Friday night that don't mean it's anywhere near my overall diet or my health.
I'd like to continue but I gotta get on the trainer and pedal 25 miles tonight.
Zone 2 to 3 tonight.
Thank you! Reading this thread, I was wondering if I say anything, because I didn't want to be the one odd outsider.
I've never drank an energy drink. never been a coffee person. Used to drink caffeinated soft drinks, but gave them up probably 25 years ago. Count me as trying to eat and drink relatively healthy food.
No surprise there.
Perhaps 20 years ago, National Geographic did an article on the harvest and processing of caffeine. Included was a short side article that described the effect of caffeine on stimulating the human brain. They did CT brain scans to show the level increase of brain activity from caffeine.
The research clearly showed that caffeine use increased brain activity, when compared to the brain of a person who does not use caffeine products. But the increase in brain activity is short lived. Even with continued regular caffeine consumption, the caffeinated brain is no more active than that of a person that has not consumed any caffeine.
So yea. Your experience is exactly what the science says.
Yup. Can't be healthy. Nothing is free. Take the benefit now, pay for it later.
Speculation on what percentage of a diet.
I will speculate anybody who drinks these drinks regularly, rarely drinks water at any time of day or with a meal.
You do know that alcohol is not good for you which brings you back to water again
To the contrary. Coffee consumption is associated with significant reductions in all cause mortality, lower dementia, lower incidence of diabetes and probably more than I'm forgetting.
Coffee is rich in polyphenols and is one of the most significant sources of antioxidants in the Western diet.
Early studies that suggested that coffee drinking increased heart disease and cancer failed to control for the fact that coffee drinkers are more likely to smoke.
I’m curious about this. What about when you order online is that the same?
There’s many more products on costco.com than what’s carried in the warehouse clubs.
I would be curious if the coffee I posted a picture of is sold on the West Coast
Never mind, I just looked it up. You can order the organic coffee even in Seattle Washington from Costco online.
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I have never seen it in the Seattle area and I would estimate that Costco here stocks 50 to 100 different coffee products if you include all the product categories. Seattle is still a coffee town
You can order from Costco online I just put in some ZIP Codes from the West Coast
Seattle has been circling the drain for the last 10yrs
Very nice! How long has it been out in Costco? I haven't been there in a minute. Kirkland French Roast Beans is my go to for making Cuban expresso at home. I'll have to try out that brand if it's available in MN.
I drink Brawndo.
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Hey! That's not what I said, LOL... even if it's true 
Not good. Poison IMHO.
"Splenda usually contains 95% dextrose (D-glucose) and maltodextrin (by volume) which the body readily metabolizes, combined with a small amount of mostly indigestible sucralose. Sucralose is made by replacing three select hydrogen-oxygen groups on sucrose (table sugar) molecules with three chlorine atoms"
I’m a coffee guy. But I’ll down a Jagerbomb (Jagermeister and Red Bull) or two when it’s getting late and it’s time to rally. Sometimes you just need some quick energy and a buzz to push through.