Detects Non-Diet Soft Drinks Before Accidental Consumption - A Must Have for Diabetics and The Health Conscious - 40 Strips Per Box

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.

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.

Works great! Has saved me multiple times when I went through a drive thru and they gave me a non-diet beverage. I will be a forever customer.

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.

I have type two diabetes and was recommended this on a chat group. I was on to check out beverages to see how they really affect you even if the beverages say they are zero sugar or diet. This helped me double check things to make sure as it’s a relief to know you didn’t accidentally get a regular soda versus a diet. I’ve tested it on a lot of things at home such as coffee creamers, ice tea, pickle juice, soda’s it definitely does work. I would definitely recommend it. Lets me know what I can drink and what I should stay away from just if something is marked as zero or light or diet does not necessarily mean it’s good for a diabetic I would definitely recommend and would get again. I feel the reason reasonably priced and work very well and they gave me a good piece of mind.

Love this! I get migraines and one of my triggers is sugar. So finding zero/diet drinks in the world is so hard. But at restaurants/fast food I trust no one. I can tell if it’s sugary or not and people tend to not believe me. No I can save my head with strips!(The BK is regular sprite.)

I use these to make sure my drinks are not diet. I can't have artificial sweeteners and these have stopped me from having reactions more times than not.

These have saved my type 1 son more times than I can count! I am about to buy my sixth box. ONLY and I mean only complaint is the lid. It pops off in his supply bag with just the usual jostling around at school and all the strips fall out. I still use the strips that I can save but I wish it was more of a screw off lid or something else.