Testing Drinks for sugar...

[Stuboy]

I've said the same thing in another thread just now, but thought i'd post here too.. for anyone who doesn't read the resturant eating forum...

If you have an Accu-Chek Compact Plus meter (the black one) then you can use it to test drinks for sugar... you know, when you go to a resturant and you have doubts about your diet coke actually being diet...

The meter reads ERR if it's diet, but either "HI" or a number if it's not.

[dar917]

Really? That's cool! Do you know if it works with the Aviva as well or just the Compact Plus?

[notme]

I wonder if this works with all soft drinks or just some of them. Interesting!

[Stuboy]

i dont know about which other meters work... but it's worth finding out if your meter does... as i found out tonight after i was served (and drank most of) full fat coke. I think the meters that read sugar in drinks will read sugar in any liquid.

If you try it with your meter... try it with a diet and non diet drink so see if there is a difference in the readings.

It's worth posting here if you find that it does... we can build a list of known meters that can test sugary drinks! It's a very useful tool to have for eating and drinking out...

[notme]

My worry is Splenda vs Nutrasweet and other artificial sweetners may have an effect on the results. I guess I should have asked my question a bit better.

I think it would be interesting to test this out.

[Stuboy]

well next time i have some tea with sweetener... i'll test that vs tea with sugar and let you know how that goes... i use splenda sweetener...

[notme]

Cool. Thanks Stu. I am going to check my flash meter too. This is good stuff.