Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

nature.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 218 posts

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

#4

Post by Piskvorrr »

Yver wrote: post #3

Is that a lot or...? Without a frame of reference I don't know if it's more than a litre of coffee or a litre of asparagus water from Whole Foods.

Well, it's a lot compared to a litre of water ;) But indeed, a comparison to other beverages would be useful, or even a breakdown ("20% of that is from packaging"). Perhaps it's given by the high sugar content?

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

#5

Post by evgen »

You keep using this word "used", I do not think it means what you think it means...

Fresh water is one of those strange things, where consumption is not necessarily destruction. You 'used' a glass of water that you drank this morning, then excreted it over the rest of the day as urine and water vapor where it became an input for another part of the cycle. The water did not go away when you consumed it, and in this case most of the water 'used' in the production of a litre of sugar-enhanced carbonated water was never lost.

Re: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

#10

Post by cpach »

evgen wrote: post #5

You keep using this word "used", I do not think it means what you think it means... Fresh water is one of those strange things, where consumption is not necessarily destruction. You 'used' a glass of water that you drank this morning, then excreted it over the rest of the day as urine and water vapor where it became an input for another part of the cycle. The water did not go away when you consumed it, and in this ca…

Perhaps it would be more illuminating to see how much energy was used to create the soft drink.
Post reply on HN