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
Crspy | Aug 16, 2009 | Reply
Nice…!
ted | Aug 20, 2009 | Reply
Craig, you are an idiot. Take some nutritional science classes man. They are not hiding anything. lo-carb cuts down the simple sugar’s that are in the non-lo-carb can. It’s significantly less and is definitely better for you! You’re getting sick because of a different ingredient.
That amount of sugar is not enough to get you sick.
Just Stupid | Aug 20, 2009 | Reply
ted – why so snarky?
greg | Aug 25, 2009 | Reply
im diabetic (2) and I replace a meal a day with monster low carb. the vitamin B12 is great for me because my med (metformin) is known for depleting it. Also, there are apparently a lot of new studies coming out correlating diabetes and the benefit of vitamins b6 and 12.
And I like the buzz from the stimulants
I feel sick if I don’t have one lol…which is probably not good either but I feel great and eat very healthy otherwise.
Mike | Sep 16, 2009 | Reply
I recently found out that I was type 2 as well. I did some experimenting and after some testing, I found that with me (maybe not for others) my morning fasting bloodsugar count will go down 10-15 points 15-25 minutes after drinking a Lo-Carb Monster. Why -I don’t know. I know that I am becoming a believer that this is way better for me than the “zero cal” crap that I’ve been sucking down filled with chemicals like aspartame. It’s probably not the healthiest drink but make someone sick….. seriously? If you can’t handle a “Monster buzz”, stick to drinks like unflavored water and sugarfree lemonade, Ned Flanders!
j | Oct 25, 2009 | Reply
Im a type one…and once again, the type 2 diabetics are both ignorant and frankly…how stupid are you…Lo-Carb Monster does not have enough sugars, carbs, glucose or anything else (other than the energy ingredients themselves) to do anything…unless…u drink maybe 10 or 20 of them…diabetes is treated based on carb counting…jeeze…morons u are all
Larry | Oct 27, 2009 | Reply
I drink 3 aday and love them! lost about 25 pounds between drinking them and working out and eating what I want.