The nature of caffeine reveals that it is a bitter white crystalline alkaloid. It is a common ingredient in a variety of drinks (soft and energy drinks) and is also used in combination with various medicines. In order to maintain the optimum level of caffeine, various spectrophotometric methods have been developed. The monitoring of caffeine is very important aspect because of its consumption i...

Because energy drinks are becoming more popular in the United States, family physicians should be familiar with them and their potentially harmful effects. Energy drinks are distinctly different from soft drinks or sports drinks. Soft drinks (e.g., Coke, Pepsi) contain flavorings, sugars or artificial sweeteners, and often caffeine; sports drinks (e.g., Gatorade) contain sugars and electrolytes...

Simmering beneath the bubbles of your regular soft drink are issues social class, subjugation, and injustice. Sugar is a commodity it this component when added to drinks that now attracts taxation liability under Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) which was introduced in UK April 2018. In critical article, we argue UK’s capitalist state using excuse concern with workers’ health justify taxing com...

OBJECTIVES A high soft drink intake may promote, whereas intake of cheese may reduce risk of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), but will cheese intake blunt the soft drink versus MetS association? DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING The Oslo Health Study. PARTICIPANTS Among the 18 770 participants of the Oslo Health Study there were 5344 men and 6150 women having data on cheese and soft dri...