One of the many trends that have taken off on TikTok: mixing Diet Coke with a Fairlife protein shake. Here’s what one expert thinks about whether the trend is healthy or not.
There have been many food trends that have taken off on TikTok: There was the sleepy girl mocktail — a mixture of magnesium, seltzer, and tart cherry juice — scrambled pancakes, baked feta pasta, and people seeming to put cottage cheese in everything from eggs to ice cream.
Volpe recommends choosing whole-food sources of protein whenever you can — especially to ensure you are absorbing the protein adequately. For people under age 45, she says, theabsorption in one sitting is 20 grams of protein. For those over age 50, that number is around 30 to 35 grams of protein in one sitting.
However, it’s important to keep track of what you are eating, as you might be consuming other sources of aspartame in things such as other diet sodas, sugar-free gum, cereals, and sugar-free or diet juices.One can of Diet Coke has 46 milligrams of caffeine in it; however, many of the people concoting their protein-Diet Cokes are almost filling up a 32-ounce plastic cup before adding in the protein shake.
Volpe is more concerned about the ultra-processed nature of Diet Coke than Fairlife, however she still encourages people to turn to more whole food ingredients to get in their protein.
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