Is McDonald's Sweet Tea healther then drinking Soda?

[Deano]

So just recently, I decided to try and cut soda out of my life and decided to place it with Sweet Tea. Now, I tried a couple of teas from the grocery store and they were terrible. I always enjoy McDonald's Iced Tea(enjoy though I haven't ate from there in a while). Last week, I believe I drank 2 gallons. I noticed they are only four ingredients listed: water, peoke cut black tea, sugar and orange peoke.

[ChristSavage]

I can't say for sure, as I used to work @ McD's a long time ago, and I never did try it.  It is McDonald's though, so keep that in mind.  My friend, whenever he goes there, since hes a vegetarian, he can only have the salads, the parfaits, and he digs the sweet tea.  It's probably better than Soda, but not THAT much better.

[Suriel]

I would say that the tea would be better since they use sugar instead of corn syrup. Recently I have started drinking Virgil's Real Cola (which uses sugar) and I really like that.  The only drawback is that it is expensive.

[donnay]

I would say that it is not good---they use refined sugar which is not good for you either.

Plus, Tea if not organic soak up lots of fluoride.

http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/fluoride.html

Tea

In their drive to fluoridate the public water supplies, dental health officials continue to pretend that no other sources of fluoride exist. This notion becomes absurd when one looks at the fluoride content in tea. Tea is very high in fluoride because tea leaves accumulate more fluoride (from pollution of soil and air) than any other edible plant.49,50,51 It is well established that fluoride in tea gets absorbed by the body in a manner similar to the fluoride in drinking water.49,52

Fluoride content in tea has risen dramatically over the last 20 years due to industry contamination. Recent analyses have revealed a fluoride content of 17.25 mg per teabag or cup in black tea, and a whopping 22 mg of soluble fluoride ions per teabag or cup in green tea. Aluminum content was also high--over 8 mg. Normal steeping time is five minutes. The longer a tea bag steeped, the more fluoride and aluminum were released. After ten minutes, the measurable amounts of fluoride and aluminum almost doubled.53

A website by a pro-fluoridation infant medical group states that a cup of black tea contains 7.8 mgs of fluoride54 which is the equivalent amount of fluoride from 7.8 litres of water in an area fluoridated at 1ppm. Some British and African studies from the 1990s showed a daily fluoride intake of between 5.8 mgs and 9 mgs a day from tea alone.55, 56, 57 Tea has been found to be a primary cause of dental fluorosis in many international studies.58-70

In Britain, over three-quarters of the population over the age of ten years consumes three cups of tea per day.71Yet the UK government and the British Dental Association are currently contemplating fluoridation of public water supplies! In Ireland, average tea consumption is four cups per day and the drinking water is heavily fluoridated.

Next to water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Tea can be found in almost 80 percent of all US households and on any given day, nearly 127 million people--half of all Americans--drink tea.71

The high content of both aluminum and fluoride in tea is cause for great concern as aluminum greatly potentiates fluoride's effects on G protein activation,72 the on/off switches involved in cell communication and of absolute necessity in thyroid hormone function and regulation.

[Suriel]

You have to be careful of white sugar though.  It causes cancer.  I stopped using white sugar a while back and now I only use Turbinado sugar. It's the good part.

I know that if you get DR Peper that is bottled in Dublin, TX it uses cain sugar.  The same goes for Coke from Mexico.  I can't remember the name of the sugar I use at home but I know that it is not bleached.

[Deano]

I would say that the tea would be better since they use sugar instead of corn syrup. Recently I have started drinking Virgil's Real Cola (which uses sugar) and I really like that.  The only drawback is that it is expensive.

I actually picked up a four pack of the cola and the root beer the other day at the local earthfare. I had a Rootbeer last night, which is good but has a funky aftertaste.

I tried the cola today but didnt like the taste at all

[Wanted]

buy some european brand soda if you have european immigrant populations in your area, which is way healthier than the cola brands. Also try steaz

[Deano]

buy some european brand soda if you have european immigrant populations in your area, which is way healthier than the cola brands. Also try steaz

Yes, but do they taste any good?