If you drink diet soda by the gallon but worry about long-term health effects, the new Diet Coke Plus might ease your mind. Billed as a “health and wellness brand,” it has 15 percent of the B vitamins you need daily and 10 percent of the zinc and magnesium.
A Pepsi product called Tava, debuting this fall, will also have small amounts of B and E vitamins, plus chromium. The drinks are the latest in the fortified-food trend. (Orange juice, milk, bread, cereal, even bottled water—all “infused” with vitamins and minerals—came first.)
Nutrition experts caution that these drinks aren’t true “health foods.” While Diet Coke Plus has no sugar, fat, or calories, it does contain caffeine. (The artificial sweeteners in sodas have no health risks, the latest research shows.) Still, if you occasionally forget to take your daily multivitamin, a bottle or can of any vitamin-infused drink might help you out.
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Not sure if this is the best way to get your vitamins. First of all, healthy people are probably best getting their vitamins from nutritious foods anyway…
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There are so many multivitamins on the market so no wonder people usually have no clue what to select. The Nutrisearch Comparative Guide for Nutritional Supplements reviewed over 1500 multivitamin products using almost 20 criteria including completeness, potency, bioavailability and several others. The top rated best multivitamin for men and women is Usana Essentials.
Hi Barbara. I heard that Usana vitamins are really good. I tried to buy them in my local health shop but they said that they don’t sell Usana. Can you please advise me where I can get the usana products.
I live in Australia.