Random question, but I usually stop and grab a bagel and a drink on my way to work in the morning. Lately my drink of choice has been Diet Green Tea with Ginseng from Arizona. It’s no carb, no calories…basically no nothing. Although it does have splenda in it (don’t know how many rats its caused cancer in).
But I realized that I’m drinking a pretty solid amount of it each week (a can is 23oz) so I figured I should see if there’s anything to worry about with it.
I think regular old green tea w/out sweetener is the way to go. I’ve only found one brand of bottled teas that are unsweetened; Teas Tea. They have seveal different brews and there is always a haiku on the bottle. Very oovy groovey I know , but I love it.
It seems as though “green tea” has kind of become a buzz word to connotate healthfulness; kind of like “oat bran” was a few years ago. Splenda and other artificial sweetener scare me. I don’t like sweetened drinks anyway, I’m sweet enough already 
Why would someone sweet the green tea?
Luis
The taste!
Check out www.adagio.com. My favorite is dragonwell. I also bought one of the intellitea brewers and it works great!
I totally agree w/ QRgirl and LODD. There is no reason to put anything in green tea. Just go with the real stuff. Yum.
I hope not, I’ve been using that as a substitute to get my coffee/diet coke consumption down. Good stuff.
I thought green tea had 0 calories??
I thought green tea had 0 calories??
The OP is talking about iced green tea which is sweetened either with sugar or sugar substitute (diet).
I thought green tea had 0 calories??
The OP is talking about iced green tea which is sweetened either with sugar or sugar substitute (diet).
and therefore . . .
Diet green tea = green tea + splenda
green tea = green tea + sugar
diet water = diet coke
water = coke
Tofu = pig lard
Green tea has a lot of antioxidants that are proving to be promising in recent studies. I think it is good that you choose the diet one - Splenda has been around a long time and has a safe status as a sweetener.
Most people don’t realize that over 50% of the added sugar intake in the US comes from beverages. Further, some studies indicate that beverage calories have little satiety and can cause people to consume too many calories without realizing it.
So, enjoy!
And what is the problem with drinking it how it is supposed to be done? hot and as soon as it get ready so you don’t loose any of the great propieties?
LODD
Just read the label. I know their other non diet concoction has high fructose corn syrup.
I’d think you’d do better with water.
Lauren
Just read the label. I know their other non diet concoction has high fructose corn syrup.
I’d think you’d do better with water.
Lauren
I’ll take a look, thanks. You’re probably right, I would do better with water. But I usually run before work and drink a quart of water when I get home. So by the time I get to work and grab a bite, another big bottle of water just isn’t appealing. I need a little flavor to keep me drinking.
“I need a little flavor to keep me drinking.”
I understand… everyone says this. The interesting part is that you get over this need for taste in everything. My clients who havee said this have been fortifying themselves with artificial colors and sugars for so long, they can’t truly taste too much - and they are used to flavored/sugared beverages.
If you can do it, go with water for a while. Trust me. Your body and tastebuds will get used to it, and you will also taste your food much better. You don’t have to figure out ‘which processed drink is better than the next processed drink’, because it won’t matter. You will do great WITHOUT the additives and crap which will gum up your finely-tuned machine: your body! Soon, you will lose your taste for the processed drinks… and the water will taste delicious anytime.
My humble opinion… and others’.
Lauren
Try Stash Chai Green Tea. It’s delicious. I even use it to flavor my Gatorade or Cytomax. Mixed into the citrus flavor of either one it makes them downright tasty. The little bit of caffeine in them helps keep the motor running. I’m brewing some right now, for this afternoon’s ride/run and swim.
Bering from Germany I think it´s hilarious that there is something as “diet green tea”
omg…
Axel
It’s no carb, no calories…basically no nothing.
They used to have something like that called…eh… oh yeah, water! You can pay for that, too, if you want, at least it doesn’t have the foul taste of green tea.
it’s an American thing, yes it is funny…
agree with Lauren, ditch the junk drinks (splenda ? ginseng ? what for ?) and either get used to water or at least go with plain old green tea. Brew it yourself, bottle it at home, save $5/day and get better tea.
I used to buy Ito En green tea by the case at Costco in Kona, sadly they don’t carry it in SF. Of course I can’t stand anything sweet in iced tea.
Yummy.