🚫 Sip Smart, Live Well!
This innovative product features 40 strips designed to detect non-diet soft drinks, making it an essential tool for diabetics and health-conscious individuals. With lab-grade accuracy, fast results, and a portable design, these strips ensure you can make informed beverage choices anytime, anywhere.
H**S
Tests for HFCS. Well worth the money
I am actually allergic to artificial sweetener... I can't count how many times I have been given a diet drink and told it was the real deal . Today I tested my drink, because the carhop seemed confused on which drink was diet this saved me from a possible er trip. These detect the presence of HFCS .
A**G
Perfect for diabetic.
Absolutely a life saver. When going to a drive through i have been given drinks with sugar and as a diabetic it can really be bad. These make it so much easier to be safe. Easy to use and worth the price.
C**Y
Works as advertised
These are a life saver! You know how many times they forget to give my kid diet soda? Happens a lot and it’s nice to have this as a backup. With him being diabetic I like to have extra piece of mind!
A**R
Would recommend
They work so great. Never had any issues with them not being accurate. Great to hand on hand
T**R
A need for T1Ds
These actually work! I switched to the coffee mate sugar free creamer and could not understand why my sugar spiked so much compared to the other brand I was using (Chobabi). Randomly decided to test it and immediately got my answer. Down the drain that went.
C**Y
Good product for diabetics
Being type 1 diabetic for 40 years these are great to check my fountain pop at a restaurant. I have these in all my purses & vehicles.
K**A
The answer to my prayers. (Specifically detects GLUCOSE!!)
I often found myself dumping full sodas that I had paid for because they "didn't taste right" and I didn't want to risk it; I am not diabetic but am trying to keep my calorie intake reasonable for my size and a large soda would be several hundreds of calories difference if given normal vs. diet. These are wonderful, and I love that you get two separate tubes of strips in each box so I can keep one in my car for drive-through trips and one at home for delivery foods!I do wish the strips and their case were a bit shorter; they don't need to be as long as they are which is wasting material + making the strips take up more space than needed. If they were shorter they could fit in a pill-case keychain which would be great! I would just trim my strips and put in a different case, but I'm not sure if the materials in my pill-case (metal of some sort) would interfere with the strips' accuracy, so I don't. Just the smallest of gripes and not a big deal, though. The strips are wonderful and I'll be buying these for the rest of my life I'm sure!NOTE: The manufacturer has a notice above that talks about how these work; they detect high fructose corn syrup which is the typical sweetener used in non-diet drinks. It MAY NOT WORK on sodas sweetened with other sugars. I'm a dietitian and the basics are that "sugar" can be many compounds."Table sugar" like you might mix to "test" these strips is 50% glucose, 50% fructose, and that molecule is bound together chemically. Thus, when it is in water in a cup, it is *still* sucrose, not glucose + fructose separately. It is not until after consumed that your digestive enzymes break that bond and turn the sucrose into glucose + fructose separately.Sodas in the US are typically flavored with HFCS, high fructose corn syrup. HFCS has different formulations, but in soda it is usually 55% fructose to 45% glucose. However, unlike in table sugar, this fructose and glucose have already had the molecules broken apart and is actually in solution as fructose and glucose before being consumed.These strips detect *GLUCOSE*, not sucrose (table sugar), fructose (fruit sugar), etc. Thus if you try to "test" these with a mixture of table sugar or juice you may find they are giving negatives because they are detecting unbound glucose. I have tested this myself since I happen to be a researcher in a nutrition lab which studies the effect of different sugars, so I have them all separate in bags. You can see in my images that I have made mixtures of water+dextrose (another name for glucose), water+fructose, and a diet soda. The only strip that had a positive was the dextrose (glucose) strip. And so if your drink has unbound glucose (such as in HFCS or pure glucose) it will detect it, but it may fail to detect other sweeteners with bound glucose.
J**.
Extremely handy for niche food emergencies
If you’re reading reviews about this product, it’s likely you’ve encountered a situation where someone dropped a soda off at your table and you couldn’t tell if it was diet or not. If you’re diabetic, have strict dietary needs, etc - this matters more than some others will give you credit for.The good: this works. The color coding isn’t super specific and you can’t get more than a good guess, but if the liquid has sugar - it will react. You’re buying some peace of mind, and for that I’ll make sure to always carry this in my EDC along with pain killers.The meh: this is a bit costly for what you’re getting, but I don’t find myself using more than one strip per week if any. I’m not a fan of the tube shape as it doesn’t fit comfortably flat nor does it feel small enough to forget about it (I’d love it if it fit in a wallet). Like with any other strip, you have to make sure the lid is securely closed (pop on, not screw top).
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