Why don't they add vitamins and minerals to Coca-Cola or

Cost
Taste

>>8801678
Real sugar is expensive enough why would they bother making their product more expensive. That's what "energy drinks" are for.

if coke or pepsi had anything besides water + HFCS, restaurants wouldn't be able to buy it for $1 per 2 gallons.

>>8801678
Vitamin Water already exists.

>>8801688
>cost
Negligible cost, and if there is cost, it could be a 5% more expensive variant.
>taste
Most of things could be added without changing taste.
I see some bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke_Plus but it had only B3, B12, and vitamin C.
Not 15 vitamins and minerals there could be there.
>>8801704
Energy drinks have maybe B2, B3, B6, B12.
Why not add everything else?
Small amounts, proportional to calories.

>>8801688
Pretty much this. Also, it would be kind of a waste to add vitamins or minerals to these drinks. The unhealthy shit would just counteract them and make them pretty much useless, resulting in an enormous waste of money on the consumers part, as well as the corporation. Besides, drinking poison and not getting any immediate damage from it adds to the timeless consolation of humans to believe they are invincible.

>>8801729
I don't think you know what you are talking about.

>>8801729
You can overdose on some vitamins (mostly the fat-soluble ones like A), so they could either just add negligible doses or risk damaging the health of their consumers.

>>8801764
>You can overdose on some vitamins (mostly the fat-soluble ones like A), so they could either just add negligible doses or risk damaging the health of their consumers.
Doses proportional to RDA and calories. 2000 calories, 100% RDA. 500 calories, 25% RDA.

>>8801729
>Negligible cost, and if there is cost, it could be a 5% more expensive variant.

5% of a multibillion dollar industry is "negligible"...
Don't ever try to open a business. I'm not paying 5% for some shitty vitamins, there is already other garbage in other "enriched" food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt is extreme success.
Why don't they add anything to soft drinks, beer, and white bread?

>>8801785
That doesn't prevent some fat slob to drink 10 cans of 'coke extra super duper'.
These drinks would be marketed as healthy, so dimwits will drink extra large amounts.

Realistically you can only add vitamins you can't overdose (like vitamin C) - and you don't need to add that to your coke because it's already added to a ton of products.

>>8801824
What can you overdose? Maybe Vitamin A and Iron. But almost everything else is harmless at 1000% doses.
>That doesn't prevent some fat slob to drink 10 cans of 'coke extra super duper'.
If someone drinks 2000 kcal of soft drink, it would be better 2000 kcal with nutrition. Same as 2000 kcal of normal food.

>>8801740
>Besides, drinking poison and not getting any immediate damage from it adds to the timeless consolation of humans to believe they are invincible.
- Make cars automatically crash when exceeding speed limits
- Add paracetamol to codeine tablets; add methanol to alcohol
Those are not good ideas

>>8801678
FDA CHEMICAL SHILLING IS REAL.
LITERALLY GOOGLE THESE THINGS YOU MASSIVE FUCKS
and skip the fucking wikipedia page.
Try cameo chemicals.

At least 10 of those things are rated as hazardous to humans.

This fucking thread is a joke.

>>8801870
>skip the website with citations and curation and go to my spook conspiracy website

>>8801879
>CAMEOCHEMICALS.NOAA.GOV
>SPOOKY CONSPIRACY WEBSITE

This topic is full of fucking morons.

>>8801852
High doses of vitamin A, D and B3 can be harmful. And a permanent high dose of water-soluble vitamins only produces one thing - expensive urine.

Face it: specific synthetic vitamins will never top a balanced diet where you get your vitamins plus fiber and secondary plant products.

>>8801909
Is this... Actually..

Someone..
Who understands..
That synthetic vitamins are different..
And naturally occurring versions have zero negative side effects?

This might be the happiest day of my life.
They're learning. The Americans are actually learning stuff.

>>8801909
>High doses of vitamin A, D and B3 can be harmful.
What high doses? 100% RDA per 2000 kcal.

>water-soluble vitamins
Now that's a valid point. Can't add everything to water, it's not soluble. Maybe to bread.

>Face it: specific synthetic vitamins will never top a balanced diet
Yes, but talking about real malnutrition in population.
Most of my diet used to be bread, margarine, cheese, cola. That was in kitchen.

>>8801945
>Maybe to bread

Thats what got us wonderbread and look what that did to food in America.

>>8801678
That's not how that works.

>>8801729
Cause you'll die faster from too much vitamin than too much sugar

The reality appears to be that in the US, 0.58/100,000 people are dying from malnutrition in America per year. 2014 Data.
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrition/by-country/

http://www.ffinetwork.org/global_progress/

The entirety of west Africa has enrichment programs but also hundreds of deaths per 100k.
I'm not sure if these sites lump starvation in with malnutrition, but probably.


How can you justify these differences and poison ALL THE FUCKING FOOD IN AMERICA because half a person dies of malnutrition per 100,000 per year?

That's like making every single american wear a helmet all day every day by law because one shitty parent let him ride his bike on the interstate.

So we all have to be dosed with chemicals because one mother of a niglet smoked crack instead of feeding her child, and it's starvation was called malnutrition and added to the data?

MALNUTRITION DOES NOT EXIST IN THIS COUNTRY, it is literally a scapegoat for starvation. Not a complete lie, but when you group deaths from both things together, the data is muddled in favor of calling every death malnutrition related, a ploy to get you to eat more chemicals and enjoy eating them.

1474 People per year? Less than fucking bee stings and aspirin and we can still justify doing this?

Looking at the above sites will easily show you that this is about access to food and starvation, not "OMG PEEPULS DYIN CUZ THEY AIN'T EAT THESE CHEMICALS."

Use your fucking brains. Every case of a death from starvation is labelled as malnutrition.
So did they die of hunger? Or did they die because they didn't have "MUH B VITAMINS?"
You decide.

>>8802036
>not many people die from malnutrition in the US
>therefore malnutrition isn't a problem
Oh, well I guess lead poisoning isn't a problem either because not too many people die from that

>>8802036
>MALNUTRITION DOES NOT EXIST IN THIS COUNTRY
Obesity is malnutrition

>>8802036
Who said anything about US?