I was at a picnic and a friend asked me to grab a drink. I pulled a Fresca from the ice chest and handed it to him. That's when he said, "I can't drink that, it has grapefruit juice in it and it'll mess with my heart medication. At first, I thought he was kidding.
Fresca can screw up medicine? So I made a few calls and it turns out, he's probably right. Grapefruit juice is the issue. Several drugs interact with grapefruit juice and cause an increase, or decrease in the drug potency. A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found "more than 85 drugs, most of which are available in Canada, are known or predicted to interact with grapefruit. The lead researcher in the study, David G. Bailey said, "Half of these drugs actually can cause sudden death Lemon and orange juice don't seem to be a problem, but lime and the juice from Seville oranges a type of sour orange are also considered dangerous.
It made me wonder what other common foods should people be careful with? Bananas are something I keep at our facility for people when they finish a workout. They provide simple carbohydrates and potassium. When a banana is combined with protein it's an excellent recovery food. But, people who take ACE inhibitors might want to skip them. ACE inhibitors work by relaxing blood vessels and decreasing blood volume so your blood pressure goes down.
ACE inhibitors also increase the amount of potassium in your body. When you combine that with the potassium from a banana, you might experience potentially deadly changes in heart rhythm or heart palpitations.
Other potassium-rich foods to avoid include oranges and salt substitutes with potassium. Cheese is widely used in lots of recipes, but some cheeses have high levels of tyramine which can cause blood pressure to spike. If you combine antidepressants that are monoamine oxidase inhibitors MAOIs with cheese, the combination can cause a sudden and dangerous increase in blood pressure and increase your risk of stroke.
Milk is a fixture at breakfast for millions of people. In moderation, it's not a bad choice, unless you're taking antibiotics.
It pours with effervescent carbonation and a bright citrusy scent, and gives subtle hints of grapefruit on the back of the palate once sipped. This is a good choice for those who don't like their grapefruit soda too sweet. Ting as in "the real Ting! Quite popular in its country of origin, it started making headway in the States after PepsiCo bought the company in Initially, it comes off quite sour, and if you stop there you'll probably say it's awful.
It is very strongly flavored, so some people might be hard-pressed to finish an entire bottle, but anyone who wants a grapefruit soda that really packs a punch should seek it out.
Goya makes a whole line of Latin American foods, including soda. Convinced his name would be too difficult for Americans to pronounce, he purchased the Goya sardine company and used that instead. Goya's sodas are more popular south of the border than they are here in the U. Regardless, their grapefruit drink is a decent example of the product, even if it split the tasting team. Some praised it for it strong grapefruit flavor and hints of lime zest, while others called it "funky" and "too sour.
Another brand highly favored in Mexico, Jarritos makes highly carbonated sodas in a variety of fruit flavors, including some more unusual choices like tamarind unusual to Americans, anyway. The brand always uses sugar cane as its primary sweetener, although often the resulting soft drink can come off cloyingly sweet. That's the case here, where the amount of sugar outweighs any presence of tartness. The grapefruit flavor also tastes a bit artificial.
That said, it's entirely decent, and while it may not have garnered the highest marks with the tasting group, it also didn't earn any low scores. Kickapoo Joy Juice is instantly recognizable for its neon yellow-green glow and the L'il Abner characters Lonesome Polecat and Hairless Joe on the bottle. In the comic strip, Kickapoo Joy Juice is described as "a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rose into the air, stiff as codfish.
Our reaction to the non-alcoholic version wasn't quite so extreme, but it wasn't overly positive, either. Without question, this was the sweetest, most syrupy soda in the lineup, with a peculiar muddle of flavors ranging from guava to banana to mango but not, curiously enough, grapefruit.
It skims dangerously close to Mountain Dew territory, so if that sounds like your kind of soda, and you like the sugar dial set to "extreme," then Kickapoo has your name written all over it. IZZE pronounced "is" prides itself on the amount of fruit juice in its sodas, using a ratio of 70 percent fruit juice concentrate to 30 percent seltzer water. This results in two servings of fruit in every ounce bottle. IZZE promotes most of its beverages as "sparkling juices" rather than soda, and their grapefruit variety falls under this nomenclature.
Two servings of fruit it may contain, but don't expect pure grapefruit juice. It's augmented by apple, white grape, and orange juice, and some of our tasters found the combination a bit confusing. Though it smells very much like an actual grapefruit, it tastes like an exaggeration of the fruit, with intense tartness and an acidic bite. If you're more of a juice person than a soda person, it might be your thing.
GuS, which stands for Grown-up Soda, is the youngest company in this taste test. Steve Hersh and Jeannette Luoh founded their New York City-based operation in , wanting to market a soda that wasn't as sweet as the rest of the offerings currently available. Now that we've tried it, we can confirm their mission accomplished.
Its website claims its soda is "the first made truly for adult palates. Some in the tasting group thought it was a bit too bitter, and noted an earthiness "like pureed grapefruit seeds" in both the scent and the flavor of the soda.
Exceedingly dry, we think this would work better as a mixer than as a soda to drink straight. That said, if you like to dose your seltzer with a squeeze of grapefruit, you may love this. Of course, every palate is different.
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