Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Kirk Bender Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Mountain Dew. Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:39:04 -0800 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 60 Message-ID: <36E62FA8.55E44FA@znet.com> References: <86ogm1ltbv.fsf@finance0.mel.cybec.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: scts1-22.znet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; U) Toby Hutton wrote: > > Mountain Dew in Australia doesn't have caffeine, but I understand it > has plenty in the US..? Can someone confirm this for me? How about > in Europe? If I'm right I want to know why the hell they took it out > for us. > -- > Toby (who dislikes coffee, loves Dew but drinks Coke to stave off siesta). Yep, it's got plenty caffeine here in the US, although Jolt Cola has more. They took it out in Canada too. The Mountain Dew commercials here all involve some kind of frenzied activity-- drug pushers. Actually in an upcoming X-files episiode, the global conspiracy of caffeine experiments is revealed. (joke!) from the caffeine FAQ: http://www.cs.unb.ca/~alopez-o/Coffee/caffaq.html#HowMuchCaff According to the National Soft Drink Association, the following is the caffeine content in mgs per 12 oz can of soda: Afri-Cola 100.0 (?) Jolt 71.2 Sugar-Free Mr. Pibb 58.8 Mountain Dew 55.0 (no caffeine in Canada) Diet Mountain Dew 55.0 Kick citrus 54 (36mg per 8oz can, caffeine from guarana) Mello Yellow 52.8 Surge 51.0 Tab 46.8 Battery energy drink -- 140mg/l = 46.7mg/can Coca-Cola 45.6 Diet Cola 45.6 Shasta Cola 44.4 Shasta Cherry Cola 44.4 Shasta Diet Cola 44.4 Mr. Pibb 40.8 OK Soda 40.5 Dr. Pepper 39.6 Pepsi Cola 37.2 Aspen 36.0 Diet Pepsi 35.4 RC Cola 36.0 Diet RC 36.0 Diet Rite 36.0 Canada Dry Cola 30.0 Canada Dry Diet Cola 1.2 7 Up 0 I myself prefer "Pocari Sweat" from Japan, no caffeine, lots of electrolytes, and MSG! This message brought to you by the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Kirk Bender kbender@znet.com http://sj.znet.com/~kbender http://www.scea.sony.com/net/yaroze/pages/kbender.html