• SilentStorms@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Prime Energy, which has come under scrutiny in other countries, contains 200 milligrams of caffeine per can or the equivalent of six cans of Coke or two Red Bulls.

    …or one large coffee. This is deceptive wording.

    Why is Starbucks exempt from these rules? A lot of their drinks would definitely exceed 180mg of caffeine.

  • Anticorp
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    1 year ago

    What’s the big deal? They contain as much caffeine as 2-3 cups of coffee. If people want to drink caffeine then they should be able to. People don’t need the government telling them which forms of caffeine are acceptable.

    • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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      The article linked actually says in every instance it was a double whammy of a concern about caffeine, but that the actual reason was because they did not have bilingual nutritional information on the can.

    • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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      People don’t need the government telling them which forms of caffeine are acceptable.

      But they do need the government telling food companies to properly label the shit they sell