February 28, 2007, - 1:02 pm
Caffeine Content Soon to be Posted
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If you drink a lot of soft drinks, it may interest you to note that caffeine content will soon be posted on their packaging. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, here is the caffeine content of some popular drinks:
Coca Cola Classic . . . 34.5 mg
Diet Pepsi . . . 36 mg
Pepsi . . . 37.5 mg
Diet Coke . . . 46.5 mg
Mountain Dew . . . 54 mg
Diet Pepsi Max . . . 69 mg
Full Throttle . . . 108 mg
Tab Energy . . . 108 mg
Tags: Coca Cola, Debbie Schlussel, Pepsi, Wall Street Journal
Personally I’m selfishly glad this is happening. I’m hypersensitive to caffeine and knowing this information will be useful in trying to limit my intake.
That being said, I know I’m in a minority. A pretty small minority. And labeling everything and its uncle in detail just isn’t practical. Just listing it as an ingredient should be sufficient and the burden really should be on me to find out what the caffeine levels are for a give product.
jpm100 on February 28, 2007 at 11:24 pm