That shit about REDBULL!!!

Well..... this is the first post....needs a lot of energy.... so let us start with a can of REDBULL..... i recently received an email stating that redbull leads to slow death and it has been banned in several countries and all that stuff...... this was one of the most funniest "dark truth" emails i had ever received .....i was thinking who the author of this email could be.... and it primarily reminded me of Galloway's dialogue in Transformers 2.... "This fool is terribly misinformed" .... lolzzz.... it was a total loss of bits and bytes under the name of science.....

Excerpts from that email i got:-

" 1. It is dangerous to take it if you do not engage in physical exercise afterwards, since its energizing function accelerates the heart rate and can cause a sudden attack.


2. You run the risk of undergoing a cerebral hemorrhage, because RED BULL contains components that dilute the blood so that the heart utilizes less energy to pump the blood, and thus be able to deliver physical force with less effort being exerted.


3. It is prohibited to mix RED BULL with alcohol, because the mixture turns the drink into a " Deadly Bomb " that attacks the liver directly, causing the affected area never to regenerate anymore.


4. One of the main components of RED BULL is the B12 vitamin, used in medicine to recover patients who are in a coma; from here the hypertension and the state of excitement which is experienced after taking it, as if you were in a drunken state.


5. The regular consumption of RED BULL triggers off symptoms in the form of a series of irreversible nervous and neuronal diseases. "

To the one who wrote this mail:

Gosh man.... get a life..... i mean....... u could have finished it all in one sentence... "This is a crap mail"...... it would have at least helped us reduce the electronic junk out there....

well the following are the explanations to the stuffs mentioned in the mail:-

GUCURONOLACTONE: It is not a toxic compund, you must read this:

"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucuronolactone"
and moreover, it is a day to day compund being produced in our body to detoxify the blood!!!

Vitamin B12:
what the mail says?
"One of the main components of RED BULL is the B12 vitamin, used in medicine to recover patients who are in a coma; from here the hypertension and the state of excitement which is experienced after taking it, as if you were in a drunken state. "

This is the craziest shit ever..... vitamin B12 is one of the most important vitamins required for the living beings.... Yeast is a rich source of it, so are fermented foods like dosa, idly etc.

another point said in the mail:
"You run the risk of undergoing a cerebral hemorrhage, because RED BULL contains components that dilute the blood so that the heart utilizes less energy to pump the blood, and thus be able to deliver physical force with less effort being exerted. "

Blood should not be thick at all..... it is supposed to be diluted.... and the energy utilized by the heart has got nothing to do with the blood thickness.....

the reason it has been banned in some countries is that it contained trace amounts of cocaine in a batch sent to austria.....it has been theoretically stated that a person with a low tolerance for cocaine has to consume 2 million cans of redbull in a single sitting, in order to be critically ill coz of cocaine!!!

Otherwise Redbull contains 0.3 mg of Caffeine ...... Caffeine is the reason for coffee to be consumed ... coffee has 3 to 7% of caffeine varying by variety and processing protocols.......... and the rest of redbull is vitamin B and derivatives of it along with water!!!

So next time... when u hate a product.... hate it for the right reason....be informed!!! Thank you for the read..... god bless... :))

You ain't pissin of people.... u ain't doing science!!!

Hello all.... welcome to my blog..... m a btech in biotech.... and now m pursuing my mtech in food and nutrition biotech..... both being an essential science and yet not easily accepted by the society..... reason?? i feel its lack of awareness.... lot of stupid emails spreading stupid infos about all those products out there..... and all of those stuffs that are on demand in the market just because of false marketing..... well.... as a food process engineer..... i felt it was necessary on my part to just stop whining about all those mockeries happening and start educating people about the actual science involved.... and guess what..... this was the biggest folly of my life.... why??.... coz when "U ain't pissin off people, U ain't doing science" .... all my talks were either rubbished or i was deemed the mad guy.... but, yes there was one thing i was proud of..... the no. of people i pissed of is a lot..... so i was doing pure science..... now the issue isn't solved yet.... and today i decided to talk less and type more..... explaining the science of everything in and around us in a manner the lehman would like in....... so the result is this blog..... i would be posting a lotta stuffs here.... though the time interval between the posts might not be uniform.... every post will have some heavy stuff...... thank you for the read...... see ya soon..... god bless... :))