When you compare the disadvantages of Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola, you may be scared. Both carbonated soft drinks are the best sellers around the world, doing billions of dollars in business. It is interesting though that coke does outsell Pepsi. They both have almost the same ingredients, and the public distinguishes them by their packaging and taste. Pepsi looks to be a bit sweeter, and Coke has a higher fizzy effect.

What’s in them?

Coca-Cola was first introduced to the public in 1886 and contained cocaine. Pepsi-Cola was introduced in 1893 and was intended to be used as a digestive drink. The ingredients in Pepsi and Coke are very similar. They both contain high contents of sugar, 39 grams or 3.3 tablespoons. This level of sugar can elevate your blood glucose levels. HFCS or high fructose corn syrup is another sugar ingredient.

They both have phosphoric acid and food dyes. Each can of coke have 140 calories, and Pepsi has 150 – also referred to as the ‘empty calories’. They provide no nutritional value. Just drinking a can, a day can cause a person to gain 12 pounds in one year.

Caffeine and caramel food colorings, phosphorous and aspartame found in both their regular and diet sodas. Pepsi is found to contain natural oils and flavors that contain alcohol. And because it tastes good, mentally, it’s relaxing.

Numerous Disadvantages Of Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola

The health benefits are almost nonexistent in either of these sodas. The disadvantages of Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola are numerous, and the harmful health effects are risky and can have results that can last a lifetime. And in some extreme cases, can cause death.

Prosperous or phosphoric acid can destroy your teeth and bones, causing them to deteriorate by depleting them of calcium. It may lead to osteoporosis in women, weak and brittle bones. As calcium eliminates through your urine, it can slowly form kidney stones.
Aspartame or Amino Sweet connect to diseases and health problems such as cancer, leukemia. And can cause bad headaches, chest pains, asthma, and skin rash, pain in joints, depression, seizures and blurred vision.
Diet soda contains aspartame along with formaldehyde that causes weight gain, brain cancer and damage to the immune and nervous system. Thinking that because it is ‘diet’ drinkers are allowed to drink more which causes the weight gain.
Dehydration is caused by drinking Coke or Pepsi because drinkers think it’s all right to drink them in place of water. These sodas contain caffeine that acts as a diuretic that increases urination. So the fluids that are essential for your body to function naturally are lost.
Increased blood pressure can occur when over consumption of the fructose in these drinks.
Caffeine in both sodas makes it addictive and can raise heart rate and blood pressure.
Drinking one 12-ounce can of an artificially sweetened soda per week can increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 33 percent.
Coca-Cola has a secret ingredient – FX that is truly a secret. There is no information available for what it is.
Besides finding the health problems caused by the ingredients, tests were done using coke to show the damage. It can do to your body by testing it as a household cleanser. It poured into a toilet and cleaned the stains. A tooth put in a glass of Coke, and the result was, the tooth was almost entirely ‘eaten’ away. The soda can also clean corrosion from your car battery terminals and remove grease from your clothes.

Branding – the good, the bad, the ugly

Both of these sodas were created for the same reason – to quench your thirst and create a non-alcoholic beverage. Coca-Cola boasts about how it labels its cans with all the ingredients and claims they are hydrating. Even though both sodas make a diet, low-calorie or no-calorie drink, neither of them will admit that their product is part of the obesity problem.

They market to each generation. Coke says it is the same great taste and says it is a drink fit for the family while Pepsi tries to appeal to the fun, youthful teen crowd. Both position the brands in the minds of consumers so that they think of the brand in the right or desired manner.

Pepsi recently has created a bottle that could secure favorable aromas when the bottle or can is opened; it releases these pleasant aromas to enrich the drinking event. Test results are not in yet as to what side effect this will have on drinkers.

There are many health alternatives like water, tea, and 100% juice. In any case, it is totally up to the individual to drink or not drink soda now that the disadvantages of Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola have been laid out for you.
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Author's Bio: 

Hey! I`m Shumriaz Shahid. I finished my certification in Sports nutrition (Future Fit College) from UK. I also completed advanced personal training diploma (Level-4) few years back.