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Has anyone tried mountain dew ice? I actually like it a lot. It's a lemon lime flavored dew, it's basically 7up with caffeine. I say 7up cus it tastes closer to that imo than sprite or whatever pepsi lemon lime soda is called these days.
Thing is though it has way less sugar than regular mountain dew, almost half as much. A 20 ounce bottle has 160 calories and 41 grams of sugar vs 290 and 77 for regular. Both have 91 mg of caffeine. I drink diet dew regularly but it has a lot of weird additives like bromiated vegetable oil. Ice has sucralose in it instead of aspartame. I'm not sure if one is better than the other for you.
Anyway it's a nice change of flavor from diet dew while still getting my caffeine buzz and not putting me in a diabetic coma from sugar overload.
Thing is though it has way less sugar than regular mountain dew, almost half as much. A 20 ounce bottle has 160 calories and 41 grams of sugar vs 290 and 77 for regular. Both have 91 mg of caffeine. I drink diet dew regularly but it has a lot of weird additives like bromiated vegetable oil. Ice has sucralose in it instead of aspartame. I'm not sure if one is better than the other for you.
Anyway it's a nice change of flavor from diet dew while still getting my caffeine buzz and not putting me in a diabetic coma from sugar overload.
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because that's how it's listed on the nutritional info? Pop in the us comes typically comes in cans that are 12 ounces or bottles that are 20 ounces. Companies used to list the larger bottles as containing 2.5 8 ounce servings, but they came under pressure to change the labeling since most everyone drinks the whole bottle. A pint is 16 ounces so a 20 ouncer is 1.25 pints.
Sugar is still listed in grams on the side. I don't know why, it just is. 41 grams is supposedly more than you should have in a day but it's not that much. 20 ounces of orange juice for example has more sugar.
Sugar is still listed in grams on the side. I don't know why, it just is. 41 grams is supposedly more than you should have in a day but it's not that much. 20 ounces of orange juice for example has more sugar.
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Presumably it's just because 41 grams is 1.44 ounces, which is a bit unwieldy. Imperial measurements tend to break down at that scale. You could give sugar in teaspoons and convey the same basic information, but that's not a standardised measurement so probably doesn't meet regulations.
I've been working my way through a 2L bottle of Mountain Dew over the past few days. The nutrition information is based on a single serving of 355 mL, which is what is contained in a bottle of Jones Soda. I don't have any pop cans immediately to hand to check how many mL they have now, but I just checked my Clamato juice cans and they have 341 mL.
Thank goodness for metric. This whole go-around with pints and ounces doesn't make any sense to me.
Thank goodness for metric. This whole go-around with pints and ounces doesn't make any sense to me.
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Well it doesn't make sense because american's mix everything up. Some drinks come in liters, others in gallons and others still in fluid ounces.
A gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 128 ounces. But soft drinks come in 2 liter bottles so it's roughly a half gallon but not exact.
Back to original question, has anyone tried dew ice?
A gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 128 ounces. But soft drinks come in 2 liter bottles so it's roughly a half gallon but not exact.
Back to original question, has anyone tried dew ice?
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Picked one up last night. You're right. It's good if you want a 7up with caffeine.
Canada went metric decades ago, so I can't even visualize what a gallon, quart, pint, or ounce even looks like anymore.
That 2 L bottle of Mountain Dew is sitting within arm's reach as I type, though, and I expect to finish it this afternoon. After it's done, it will go in with the other empties to eventually end up at the depot, as it's worth 25 cents.
I never heard of it. I would probably not try it, based on your description. The only reason I have this one bottle of Mountain Dew is because the store ran out of root beer.
I am very glad that I drink nothing but water and tea.
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Mountain Dew in Canada never has caffeine, so it's not as big. At least with me. It still tastes good, but I don't think people have much inclination to try different flavours. I mean, mountain dew is mountain dew, you drink it for the taste. It's not like it has caffeine or alcohol in it or anything. The taste is what matters, so when I get dew, which isn't often, I reach for the original. If I want a different flavour, there's all sorts of other brands, a lot of which do have caffeine.
I remember that my mother didn't mind if I drank the occasional bottle of Mountain Dew or 7-Up when I was a child, as long as I drank every bit of whatever milk, water, or juice she and my grandmother ordered me to drink.
Not that I mind milk; I've got quite a bit in my fridge right now. But I'm not really a Mountain Dew fan anymore. It'll suffice if I want pop and the store is out of my favorite stuff (Dr Pepper or root beer).
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