They've changed Lucozade. The CUNTS!!

[TheQueenOfWands]

I am ill. I needed Lucozade.

My beautiful, darling child trekked off to the local Tesco to get me some and...

...the fuckers have changed it. It tastes weird. Can't put my finger on it, but it's weird.

It's Winter. People are unwell. They NEED their Lucozade.

Why is everything changing? Can't we have ONE THING??

Soon the only vice left will be the classic version of coca cola. I even have to resort to the dishwater that is Pepsi these days as at least it just tastes mildly yucky, rather than yucky, with a lingering aftertaste for the rest of the day plus a headache for the finale.

I hate sweeteners. I'm a big girl and can sensibly manage sugary drinks in an otherwise healthy lifestyle.

Sugars have their uses for energy. Sweetners have no purpose at all as they don't even taste nice.

How come full fat coke and tonic water and stuff exists alongside diet versions and has done for decades vodka and slimline in the 80s but we can't have slimline and full fat lucozade?

Yes @GrockleBocs the fuckers!
Not to mention the massive controversy surrounding Aspartame

Oooh, yes not! With little bumps and a paper label. Or cans. I swear they always tasted better too.

Are you listening Lucozade?

The good people of mumsnet have spoken.

Agree, Madcatter. Cans are not good for taste either.

Original full sugar strength Lucozade has got me out of a few sticky wickets over the years. I actually think it has been life saving for me.

I am a type 1 diabetic and when I was first diagnosed, and prescribed insulin, I was advised by the HCP to get Lucozade. The original formula worked really well and really quickly to treat hypos.

The new version has half the amount of glucose as the old version, so you need double the amount to treat a hypo. I wish the original formula was still available. I don't regard it as a soft drink, I regard it as a vital part of my treatment for managing my health condition.

I know other things can be used to treat hypos ,but for me nothing worked as quickly as original Lucozade. I think this may be because it contained glucose rather than sucrose.

Anyway, the chemicals in the artificial sweeteners are just as bad for you. They are CHEMICALS!

EVERYTHING IS A CHEMICAL

blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/chemical-is-not-a-bad-word/
bigthink.com/neurobonkers/everything-is-made-of-chemicals
theconversation.com/kitchen-science-everything-you-eat-is-made-of-chemicals-56583

'Twas the best bit a our being a bit unwell as a kid in the 70s. Lying on the sofa. Lucozade bottled in that orange cellophane to hand...

It's becoming impossible to buy drinks without sweeteners. Mars milk drink was my drink for being ill/hungover and now they've taken the sugar out of it!
Also I liked high juice squashes as they were natural with no sweeteners and now they've all changed too!

It was perfectly OK when Lucozade came in the glass bottle wrapped in orange cellophane which we drank when we were ill. Then the marketers got to work and used sportsmen to tell us it would improve out 'performance.' Now, children are drinking a couple of bottles a day, when water would be much better for them

Are they! Seriously the ones I see are all drinking relentless and monster with the occasional spar 35p knock off energy drink and those are the cans I see littering outside schools and around parks.

@RavenWings - they’ve changed 7UP too! Now it has artificial sweeteners too and doesn’t tast the same.

As an aside my cousin has PKU and can’t have aspartame at all. He’s slowly being deprived of most fizzy drinks and cordials as more and more companies start adding it to them.

*Taste the same

I suspect in 20 years time there will a complete reversal as it will be found that aspartame causes more health problems than sugar.
I hate the no added sugar cordials/squashes/fizzy drinks they make me feel nauseous & give me a headache & don't quench a thirst.
Not that I drink that many of the above as it's mainly water, tea & coffee here.

People going on about wanting to have the choice, I'm afraid we lost that when obesity and type 2 diabetes became the biggest threats to health in the UK.

There's a study which shows that it's very likely that type 2 diabetes will be the downfall of the NHS within the next ten years.

Another recent study has shown that drinking carbonated drinks (and I think this includes water) suppresses our feelings of being full, and we eat more when drinking carbonated drinks than if we drink flat water or tea.

I too remember with affection the old glass bottle with the orange wrapper but I also remember having one overweight person in every class of 30 at school, and that was because of a medical condition. Everyone else was slim and ran around like mad things.

We need to change our behaviour radically and go back to fizzy drinks being a treat rather than a daily occurrence.

turbohampster me too on the tummy troubles. Also, we just don’t like the taste of sweeteners, and 7up was our go to lemonade for years as it didn’t have any sweetener in it. Not any longer, sad realisation this Christmas that that too now has sweeteners in it.
We are now buying ridiculously expensive artisan brands of very lemony lemonade, which doesn’t quite have the right taste but at least doesn’t taste of chemical.
By adding sweeteners manufacturers are still giving the consumer a high level of sweetness, this is not helpful in weaning people off of sugar. I find most pre baked goods too sweet for me, because I reduce the amount of sugar in most of my cooking. What is actually needed is to reduce the high level of ‘sweet taste’ in everything, regardless of whether that comes from sugar or sweetener.

Is t the name Lucozade a play on the words Glucose and Aid? In which case they're making a big mistake here!

Oh no. Didn't know this.

Never drink fizzy drinks except when I get a bad migraine and cannot keep anything down for days. Then Lucozade, Irn-Bru or Sprite are magical.

Childhood memories of Lucozade being given when ill.

Sweeteners taste horrible and give me tummy trouble

This happened last spring. There are petitions, were threads on here and the comments on lucozade energy's Facebook and twitter of people complaining and some poor social media person repeating the same tired phrase about it's new great taste , go back that far. For a while you could get both types on the shelves and people stockpiled. I enjoyed my last saved bottle over Christmas and will never drink it again. Tastes like nasty cheap sugar-free lemonade. In a bottle labelled 'original'. Sad days. Like others it got me through many hangovers, several pregnancies and a few tummy bug recoveries.

SO wrong.
I hate artificial sweeteners, and even the natural one, stevia. It TASTES like artificial sweetener, even if it isn't.

Lucozade is MEANT to have a whole load of glucose in it, that's its PURPOSE ffs!

As an aside, I use full-sugar ginger ale if I'm hungover/sick. That seems to work. Don't know if it's enough for Type I diabetics though, they might need to get those glucose tablets instead, if they're still available.

Tell me it’s not true and they aren’t doing this to Irn Bru?!?!?!

Does anyone remember when you only got one flavour and it came in a tall bottle with orange cellophane around it?

My DH, who hates the stuff, was ranting that it's the thin edge of the wedge and everything will change. Pisses him off, the government being bashed into submission by groups.

But surely the whole point of lucozade is that it has a ton of sugar in it? That's what makes you feel better!

My dad is type 1 diabetic , he's switched to those glucose tablets .
He tried the new Lucozade and said it also tastes shite.
Is nothing sacred !