Soda on Keto?

#21

I avoid soda as well as I can but caffeine is hard to give up. That’s why I’m looking for an allulose soda brand. I don’t like coffee and tea doesn’t really do it for me.

#22

I cant do normal diet sodas like diet coke or diet mt dew. As much as I like them, I experience bad reactions when I drink things with aspartame.

(Joey) #23

*** ANECDOTE ALERT ***
(Caution: this post contains 0% science):

Had an office friend known to drink 6+ cans of diet Coke at the office daily. We teased him a lot, but he was otherwise trim, active, gym rat, ate low fat and limited sugar - hence the diet soda. Massive heart attack at 50 yrs old. Quadruple bypass. :shushing_face:

#24

There’s plenty of them that don’t have it. But you sure you have an issue with it? I was convinced I had issues with it for a while, same with Sucralose… I didn’t.

#25

Yea at first I wasn’t sure what it was, but I had similar reactions to crystal light and various other beverages and flavored water mixes. When I started comparing the ingredients the one unique ingredient that was common between them was aspartame. What brands do you use that don’t have it?

#26

Welcome to the forum. You have got some exciting work to do and health changes to go through when you get back on the keto plan.

Good question. And good answers. = good reading. Thanks everyone in the convo.

I wonder about food addiction factors within the mix as well. Gaining some insight into that aspect may see your further success.

I substituted out cola, and then diet cola addiction over a few years, moving on to soda water with balsamic vinegar (still some carbs, but mainly short chain fatty acids). It looks like a cola soda, and that goes someway to transition. The vinegar can help, I think, in blood sugar regulation. Most people may dress a salad with it. I use it to flavour soda water. Eventually I moved to apple cider vinegar soda s, and then to plain water.

From your comments, there is a clear hole in the soda market, I wonder if adding a caffeinated tea into a vinegar soda might satisfy even more, while feeding an alternate addiction? @Clarus_Nox, we may just be on the edge of a new soda pop empire for the 21st Century! You wouldn’t have had some work experience as a cocktail barman? That would be handy in this start-up enterprise. We could cut @SomeGuy in at a later stage when we move into spider floats and share with keto ice cream.

So good to read you will get back on the keto wagon again soon.

#27

Vinegar soda? Sure, what is the recipe for this enigma soda?

#28

Soda water in a glass. Put in a dash of balsamic vinegar. Start with a small amount. Build up to the cola colour over time. Drink when thirsty.

#29

Then is was mainly Zevia and all the non mainstream soda brands, can’t think of a single brand name right now, think Whole Foods Soda aisle… all that kinda stuff! Or you can go with real sugar ones but those would have to be pretty limited. They don’t have much but you’d probably be capped to 1-2 day.

Not sure what my deal was then, but it doesn’t happen now. I think it was convenient timing, OR losing all the weight I lost changed something and it just doesn’t bother me any more.

#30

If you’re willing to try making your own drink, you could try adding a few pieces of a low carb fruit to carbonated water. Like adding two strawberries to a whole bottle of carbonated water. Of course, the least fruit, the better, but this way you’d at least have full control of what you’re ingesting.

I hope you find what you’re looking for. I’ve read that allulose makes preparations thicker. Perhaps that’s why they don’t make drinks with allulose. There’s no allulose here, so I’ve never tried it.

I totally get it when you talk about costs. I think some people have no idea what a low budget means.

(Robin) #31

I personally think it’s up to each person where they “spend” their carbs for the day. Over time, we frequently are inspired to be more natural in our choices. But if it works for you, it works for you.

#32

Can’t stand Zevia’s erythritol after taste, was so hopeful for it. Was the 3rd brand I tried.

So treat it like infused water? I’m not sure the carbonation would last for the infusion process.

had to wait 5 hours to reply :L

#33

Oh that flour was totally worth it to me :smiley: I may be the poorest person on the whole site (though it may depend how we count it ;)), I definitely can’t afford beef every week and stuff but macadamia flour (I only could buy it for 1-2 years, I never found it again in this country) was super tasty, basically the only good tasting oily seed flour I met (coconut flour is okay too but it ruins the texture of baked goods to me. okay in tiny amounts though) :smiley: I used a bag for many months, it was just a tiny extra here and there. Keto isn’t about using “flours” though I made my own experimenting in the beginning (but I had no meat then)… But it’s the cheapest diet I ever met, of course it’s individual, depends on the person and the style of keto. I couldn’t do a “normal” diet this cheap as carbs make me hungry and I need my animal protein either way. Carnivore is even better but I can’t afford ruminant meat, way too expensive, even the cheapest cut is a once in a month thing for me. My country is big on pork, that’s the cheap and tasty and satiating meat. There are so many options! It may take time to find our way, we learn and change… I understand that. I half-lived on sweets on my first on/off keto years…
Now I eat way simpler normally. I can always complicate things, it’s fun but the base of my food is eggs, meat, some dairy, these things. Simple, tasty, good food. I stopped using flours long ago, sometimes I use some nuts, they are tasty unlike most flours anyway…

About soda… I don’t think it’s a good idea to use them but of course, we all have our own circumstances. But sugar isn’t good for you or probably any of us. Fortunately I cut out sugar way before keto, I still enjoy carbonated water though :smiley: 0 calories, 0 carb, cheap and good for my thirst
:smiley: Even if I wanted to drink a sweet drink, I would make it for myself. I had to do my dishes from scratch when I went low-carb… We don’t even have all those keto stuff here, we have paleo stuff but few and expensive, never bothered with them.

If you can’t cut out soda, maybe you can try to lower the amount or frequency…? While trying to replace it with something else? Some people don’t even consider sweet things good, I am definitely not like that but I think it’s good if we don’t depend on sweets (including sweet drinks) much… But it’s for myself, I don’t expect that from other people. Just saying as it may help. Sweet things may mess with us, one way or another. Especially sugar but not only that.

I’ve just read you need the coffeine… Tough. I hope you can find an allulose one. I never even found anything with allulose but it’s this country, we don’t seem to have that… I only could try out monk fruit due to a gift from an Australian friend (it was the worst thing ever, I hate all concentrated sweeteners. I mean the ones way sweeter than sugar). That’s why I need to make my own sweet things. Fortunately I don’t want cola as I obviously can’t make that.

#34

@Clarus_Nox, yes, like infused water. I think it is worth trying to see if it works for you, if you think the flavor would be satisfying. If you put the fruit in and immediately close the bottle, it could work. You could also cook the fruit, use a fork to make it more like a thick mash, then throw it like this in the bottle, to mix better.

#35

Well its worth a shot, maybe it’ll take the bitter bite off LaCroy and other carbonated waters I’ve tried.

(Laurie) #36

I water down my flavored soda waters (50-50). I use plain water because I don’t like so many bubbles, but you could use soda water. (Unless the “bite” comes from the soda water itself.)

#37

From my understanding, the ‘bite’ is due to the carbonation process.

#38

Oh I forgot I did that on parties a few times… It was more like 90-95% carbonated water in my case, I really couldn’t handle the sugar in drinks after years on low-carb. Yes, this may be an option too, to mitigate the problems…

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #39

You two are so good. I mix wine with my sparkling waters.

#40

I drink the fruit juice from the cans mixed with lots of carbonated water… My canned fruits contains only fruit (usually from my garden, no chemicals or big roads nearby) so that liquid is amazing. I get a glass of quite tasty, refreshing, sweet drink from 40-50ml fruit juice…

I am not one to water down a super low-alcohol drink like wine :smiley:
In the past my SO used vodka to water down too strong drinks, I tried that too but I don’t remember the results (and not because I drank much, nope, it’s my normal memory).