"Dew Fuel"

[soundofwater]

Although Mountain Dew in the United States has one of the highest caffeine contents of soft drinks on the market, Mountain Dew in Canada has always been caffeine-free, because Canadian law prohibits caffeine from being added to soft drinks that don't contain caffeine naturally

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[kadenza]

Mountain Dew in Canada has always been caffeine-free, because Canadian law prohibits caffeine from being added to soft drinks that don't contain caffeine naturally.

I've always wondered about that! The warning was quite amusing. Do we still have regular Mountain Dew? I never liked it anyway.

[soundofwater]

I haven't seen regular Mountain Dew sold in stores lately, but soda fountains at fast-food places still have the old Mountain Dew logo. I wonder if those drinks are caffeinated or not.

[pandaxian]

Wait wait wait, 'medicinal ingredients'? What the hell!! Man, I have a friend sneaking over a case of for real mountain dew to me at the end of april. I never liked Mountain Dew, but lately i've had the urge to drink it just because canada says I shouldn't. I guess it's still ok, because it's the illegal one that's called a soft drink, not the one with the health product label...

Canada's got some really dumb laws hehehe.

[soundofwater]

Oh yeah, that's the other funny part. They list caffeine as medicinal.

I want to drink bootleg Mountain Dew!!

Reading farthur on the label

[sjh]

I'm disturbed that they say "do not consume more than 1000mg of caffeine per day", implicitly saying that you could consume up to 11 bottles of mountain dew/dew fuel and not have arrythmia and all sorts of bad things.

Oh well, you only have to over-consume coffee/cola once to learn why you shouldn't do it again.

Re: Reading farthur on the label

[nastajus]

what happens when you totally overconsume cola and coffe? i've never done that in my life, it's like all water all the time for me.

Re: Reading farthur on the label

[sjh]

I've personally experienced heart arrythmia (painful and discomforting in a "omg, am I going to die?"-way); sensitivity to sound, noise, and light; "coffee/caffeine rage" (similar to "(ste)roid rage", but not as aggressive and more transient); and, headache and nausea. The last two cases of over-indulging were at about five or so moderate sized cups of, admittedly, strong home-brew. In my defence, I kind of lost track of my consumption, and didn't space out my consumption--so I ended up drinking two within five minutes of each other; I personally find it takes about 10-15 minutes for a cup of caffeine to take affect.

There are documented cases--if I trust the internet--of people overdosing on cafeine and dying. If you search for "LD50 caffeine"--"leathal dose for 50% of the population"--results come back as being: 4-5 *Grams*, 75mg per kg of human (or 5 *grams*), 150mg per kg of human (or 10 *grams*).

Coffee is typically around 60-75mg of caffeine or so, IIRC.

Re: Reading farthur on the label

[soundofwater]

Remember Neumann from #tpu? He said that a kid at his school isolated caffeine in the chemistry lab, ingested it, and died of an overdose.

Caffeine content in coffee varies widely. A large cup of coffee at Starbucks or Second Cup contains 400 mg of caffeine.

My parents thought it was horrible, perhaps even a sign of addiction, that I prefer caffeine tablets over tea or coffee. But then I pointed out that with tablets, you know exactly what dosage you're getting, and you're probably not getting contaminants like pesticides and herbicides. They ended up picking up a bottle of Wake-Ups for me the last time they visited.

[nastajus]

I've seen a pack of gum contain the letters MAY CAUSE CANCER when I used to work at a dollar store. My nutrition instructor said it's probably because it contained a syntetic sugar. I'm just flabergasted and floored, man that's terrible. WEll, it's interesting and terrible, i guess

Thank the gods they got it over the border somehow!

[kyrrdis]

When we visited Sarnia last weekend, we were desperate to find Mountain Dew. My partner doesn't drink coffee, and detests Lipton Tea in all its varieties. We finally went by a Mac's and explored the shelves. We were disappointed to discover that only the decaf version was in the soft drink section. Just as an FYI, most people in Kentucky don't see a point to drinking decaf versions of soft drinks. Then again, smoking is a legally protected activity here, so health is not high on the KY priority list.

My partner was the one that put it together. She went to the 'energy drink' section and picked up some of the Dew Fuel. We were soooooooooo happy to discover that it was real Dew!

It's not really a health product, but it does get rid of the caffeine deprivation headache in a flash...