Effects Of Water On Naturally Sweetened Soda

Compensation effect does not take place when substituting water for naturally sweetened soda. A previous mentioned research shows that there is a one-third energy intake compensation for aspartame product, however, the same research also shows that using water as a substitution for naturally sweetened soda has almost no compensation effect (De la Hunty et al., 2006). In other words, when a person drinks an aspartame sweetened soda, he seeks to make up one-third of the energy that he did not consume from drinking that soda. However, if a person drinks water instead, that would be the end of that energy consuming action. Even though he did not consume any calories from the water, he would not seek more energy intake.