Monster Low Carb Drink Bad for Diabetics?
By craig on Aug 13, 2008 in Stupid Companies
Monster Low Carb is an energy drink that is loaded with taurine and some surprising ingredients to boost your energy. Surprising if you are a diabetic to say the least. I have tried a few different Monster drinks over the past several weeks, they are very tasty, however within minutes I began to feel ill. Didn’t like the feeling at all.
I happen to be a type 2 diabetic and thought maybe I was being affected by the sugar and carbs (although that has never happened to be before when drinking energy drinks or any other over indulgence of carbs & sugars). So my brother-in-picked up the low carb monster drink for me. I drank about half a can and the same thing happened to me. I poured the other half down the sink. My brother-in-law thought maybe I was having a bad reaction to the Taurine. We decided to check the ingredients to see how much Taurine was actually in one of these drinks.
We got our answer and one big surprise. The usual list of "facts" is there…
Lo-Carb Monster Supplement Facts (serving size - 8 fl. oz.)
Calories: 10
Total Carb: 3 g (3 g from sugar) - 1%
Riboflavin: 1.7 mg - 100%
Niacin: 20 mg - 100%
Vitamin B6: 2 mg - 100%
Vitamin B12: 6 mcg - 100%
Sodium: 180 mg - 8%
Taurine: 1000 mg
Panax Ginseng: 200 mg
Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet - Servings per container: 2
But what we also discovered is that where they list the ingredients they have something called the "energy blend" and the 2nd item is GLUCOSE! If we calculated this all correctly, there is over 2000mg of glucose in each can! Now if you know anything about diabetes, the last thing a diabetic needs to be drinking is glucose! Why is there no warning for this? How could a beverage loaded with glucose be considered low carb and low calorie? Not a doctor and not a scientist, but this seems just stupid to me!
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Old Bogus | Aug 22, 2008 | Reply
This could kill someone! Our tax dollars are certainly helping keep companies honest!
Damien | Sep 12, 2008 | Reply
Glucose and maltodextrin are figured into the sugars listed within the monster, 2000mg is 2 grams of carbs. Giving you roughly 1 Gram for maltodextrin. On a normal sized can thats 4 grams of glucose and 2 of other sugars…..
saying that 4 grams of glucose is making you sick is far fetched even for the completely insulin dependent.
PETER | Dec 27, 2008 | Reply
don’t drink the s@#% and never will! some people just don’t care about themselves, well i’m not perfect but i’m not stupid either and with all the bad publicity being said about these types of drinks you would have to be stupid to buy the next big energy drink, or maybe they are looking for early retirement? if you know what i mean! cheers
tommy | Mar 1, 2009 | Reply
haha.. seriously, 2000mg is only 2 grams.. 2 grams of sugar are not going to make your blood sugar go sky high.. ha, oh man.. talk about dumbbbb.
Evan | Apr 19, 2009 | Reply
LOL I drink it all the time and I have type two. Dude….I don’t get sick. I went to check it out and apparantly I have too many t-cells in the body. It eats up the sickness so I don’t feel it.
Laura | May 10, 2009 | Reply
OMG, there is roughly 13 grams of sugar in 1 tablespoon of sugar, yo. The low carb monster has 6 grams of sugar per serving and there is 2 servings. so thats about a tablespoon of sugar in one can which, to say the least, is less than what most people take in their am coffee. I’ve had Gastic Bypass and trust me, its not suagr in the Energy drink that made you sick bro. Caffine has been provin to stimulate insulin production. Maybe thats what gave you your dizzy spell.
dogwood | Jun 3, 2009 | Reply
i had one today and i got sick and im not diabtic good thing my friend took away from me she said my pupils were dialating it good tho to me anways but i think shes lieing do u think so