Study found that soft drink plus caffeine induces children to become addicted

According to British media reports, new scientific research has found that some soft drink manufacturers are adding caffeine to their products, which will increase the likelihood that children will become mildly addicted to caffeine.

Professor Russell Exter of Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, and his team found that tasters could not tell whether the drink contained caffeine in any way. Beverage makers claim that the caffeine added to their drinks is less likely to be addictive because the bitterness of the drinks neutralizes the sweetness of soft drinks. According to the survey, more than half of the soft drinks on the market contain caffeine, and cola drinks have a particularly high caffeine content. Custer's team concluded that caffeine has nothing to do with the taste of drinks, and that beverage manufacturers may be adding caffeine to their products to change consumers' habits. Custer has called on authorities to ban the sale of caffeinated drinks to children. He worries that if not, children will have an increased risk of becoming addicted to the drink, and once they become addicted to the drink, they will eat more sugar and make them fat.