A very good edition of the Diet Detective weekly e-news, discusses claims, fact, and fiction about various "power" juice on the market, including Minute Maid enhanced orange juice and Promise energy drinks. With many of them, you're better off just eating fruit as they have extra ingredients including sugar and more calories than you'd want.

Drinking green tea has numerous health benefits for the skin, digestion, and cardiovascular system, with beneficial effects on blood pressure and cholesterol. The benefits of green tea for dieting have made green tea or green tea extracts a common ingredient in many weight loss supplements.

South African scientists at CSIR isolated the active ingredient in these specific plants, and obtained a patent on the molecule in 1995. It is a steroidal glycoside, which they named P57.

Diet pills use natural ingredients capable of prolonging life and containing alcohol used in medication or flavoring. That is advisable to avoid taking diet pills as substitute for cutting calories without the doctor's recommendation.

Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components: methanol, phenylalanine and aspartic acid. When ingested or heated, the methanol (wood alcohol) converts to formaldehyde (an embalming fluid) then formic acid (the active ingredient in household limescale remover).

Diet Coke Plus (also known as Coca Cola Light Plus) is a new formulation of Diet Coke fortified with vitamins and minerals. It is sweetened with a blend of aspartame and acesulfame potassium, unlike regular Diet Coke which only contains aspartame. Diet Coke Plus was introduced in April 2007 in select areas for test marketing.The drink is currently available in 20-ounce (591 ml) bottles and 12-ounce (355 ml) cans in the USA or 330 ml 'sleek can' and 1 liter PET bottles in Belgium. Each 12-ounce (355 ml) serving of Diet Coke Plus provides 25% of the daily value for niacin and vitamins B6 and B12, and 15% for zinc and magnesium. The first ingredient is carbonated water and the second main ingredient in diet coke plus is magnesium sulfate.The flavor is slightly different from regular Diet Coke, the antioxidant Diet Coke Plus is flavoured with green tea.The drink was released in the United Kingdom in October 2007, available in two variants, one with vitamins B3, B12 and vitamin C, and the other containing antioxidants with added green tea and vitamin C. It is only available in 350ml bottles. Although Diet Coke Plus Antioxidants is labelled as sugar free, it actually contains 0.1 grams of sugar in the green tea powder per 100ml. References^ http://www.dietcoke.com/index.jsp^ http://snackspot.org.uk/thread.php?story=0710122207daa^ http://www.brandrepublic.com/BrandRepublicNews/News/674348/Diet-Coke-Plus-target-health-conscious-consumers/