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Due to the consumption of soft drinks, it is estimated that they are 7 percent of the deaths in Mexican adults.
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Mexico is among the countries with the highest intake of sugary drinks per person.
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The harmful effects of the consumption of these drinks include metabolic alterations.
In recent days, there have been several cases of fake soft drinks that are being sold in various places in Mexico City. Product that has sparked a debate and that now through a video on social networks is shared as this not only happens in Mexico, but also in the streets of India.
Soft drink consumption is worldwide, according to data from the Statista Consumer Market Outlook, only in 2021, approximately 358 thousand 800 million liters of soft drinks were consumed worldwide.
And according to data from Yale University, Mexico is the first consumer of soft drinks in the world with an average of 163 liters per person per year, which means 40 percent more than the United States, which, in turn, occupies the second place with 118 liters.
Likewise, data from the National Institute of Public Health shows that, on average, a Mexican family allocates 10 percent of its total income to the purchase of soft drinks, 24 percent to other food and beverages, and 66 percent to housing, education, and clothing, among others.
This is how they prepare “pirate” soft drinks on the streets of India
Although it seems like a product that its creation process is very complex, cases of pirated soft drinks have arisen, and even in India it is a product that is marketed.
Through a video on facebook it became known how this practice was already experienced in India, to the extent that it is completely normal to buy a drink of dubious origin on the streets.
The viral video shows the express creation of a soft drink, and also the inhabitants of this nation consuming this pirate drink.
In the click you can also see the citizens enjoying the product, although the ingredients with which they prepare it are of dubious origin, since the merchant just takes a few liters of water, begins to put a little sugar and a strange liquid of green color to start mixing each one of them.
Then, not even five minutes pass when he is already serving said drink in the customers’ glasses.
The recording has gone viral and has sparked endless comments, where many questioned the healthiness of the drink and the ingredients they use.
These days it was revealed that pirated soft drinks were manufactured in a building located south of Mexico City, which were sold under the Coca-Cola brand, and the authorities have already confiscated hundreds of boxes of soft drinks.
But also, after that case of the alleged fake Coca-Cola soda laboratory in CDMX, they have also exhibited the apparently fake Pelón Pelo Rico candy maquila, which led the State of Mexico Prosecutor to lead the dismantling of a laboratory apparently of prohibited substances in the residential subdivision of Bosque de la Herradura in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.
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