It’s no secret that fizzy drinks – Coke, Lemonade, Fanta – aren’t exactly a health food. Yet, they’re something plenty of us drink on a regular basis, whether it’s as an afternoon pick ...

In early November, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Americans should eat and drink no more than 50 grams of sugar — roughly the amount in a can and a half of Coke — each day.

According to the FDA, Americans should eat and drink no more than 50 grams of sugar a day — roughly the same amount that's in a single can of Coke. But the reality is we consume far more.

Besides the different sweeteners, the amount of caffeine separates diet from zero-sugar sodas. Returning to the example of Diet Coke and Coke Zero, the former contains 46 mg of caffeine in a 12 ...