Don Simon Pineapple and Coconut Juice, 1.583 kg

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The launch follows the rollout of Disfruta sugar-free juice drinks into Morrisons early in October. Sweetened with sodium cyclamate and saccharin, they contain 50% fewer calories than traditional juice drinks. Some non-alcoholic beverages are often referred to as soft drinks [ 30]. Soft drinks are water-based flavored drinks than can be sweetened, acidulated, or carbonated [ 30] and frequently colored [ 41]. They are mainly consumed by all sexes, ages, socioeconomic classes, and religions probably due to their affordability, taste, and thirst quenching potentials [ 30, 41, 42]. As such, they are one of the most consumed beverages in Nigeria [ 39]. Due to increased demand of soft drinks, the quality may be compromised [ 39]. Heavy metals, such as chromium, can cause a reduction in glucose tolerance factor and increases cardiovascular diseases [ 52]. High doses of cadmium could lead to liver, kidney, and bone disease conditions [ 14, 58, 59]. Cadmium has been linked to several disease conditions including skeletal, and kidney damage [ 4, 33, 57], gastro-intestinal irritation, and pulmonary effects [ 13], vomitting, lung damage, and even death [ 16]. Copper is one the essential heavy metals that cannot be formed in human body [ 44], but is required for physical and mental development [ 56]. It is usually ingested from food and fluids during consumption. Copper concentration exceeding 5.0 mg/kg body weight is toxic to humans, especially to the gastrointestinal system [ 44]. The major organs that excess copper can damage includes the liver and kidneys. Some of the observable symptoms associated with copper toxicity in humans include vomiting, hypertension, and gastrointestinal distress. However, the deficiency of copper could lead to hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and increased low density lipoproteins [ 4].

Canned beverages (Picnic Soymilk, Remmy Rankky Orange, Sprite Soft Drink, Star Pino Pineapple, Star Mango, Godys Malta Drink, Chinchin malt milk drink, coca coloa, Glorietta Lemonade orange, Sagiko pink guava, original precious juice, Fanta orange, sobela mixed fruit drink, sweet heart mixed fruit, Gold quell multivitamin, luna milk, three crowns milk, peak milk, lino and top milk and Lino and Holsten malta drinks)The piña colada: naff or not – and even if you are a fan, is it one of those drinks that’s strictly reserved for holidays? Which other retro-classics deserve rehabilitation? Heavy metals have been reported to cause several types of diseases in the human body and cause damage to organs, such as kidney, liver, and bones. Heavy metals have the tendency to alter different systems in humans, including respiratory, endocrine, nervous systems, skin, blood, colon etc. Excessive heavy metals in the body could lead to toxicity or deficiency of other trace metals in the body [ 43]. For instance, Iwegbue et al. [ 4] opined that cadmium has the tendency to substitute copper and iron in cytoplasmic and membrane proteins. Excessive absorption of zinc could hinder copper and iron absorption [ 1]. Lanre-Iyanda and Adekunle [ 56] reported that cadmium could interfere with zinc and inhibit its enzymatic and nutrient utilization. The environmental occurrence, industrial production and uses, molecular mechanisms of toxicity, and carcinogenicity for some of these metals, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury, have been documented by Tchounwou et al. [ 13] and the occurrence, exposure, and dose in mercury, lead, arsenic, and cadmium have also been documented by Jarup [ 33]. Some heavy metals of particular concern in relation to human health include mercury, lead, arsenic, tin, cadmium, etc. [ 57].

Several diseases have been associated to heavy metals. In Nigeria, recent environmental studies have been documented in possible heavy metal diseases associated with the consumption of potable water with high heavy metal concentrations [ 14] and fishes from Nigeria surface water [ 17]. Typically, all heavy metal-related diseases are basically similar irrespective of the source of the heavy metals provided their exposure period is long enough to cause disease. Slight variations in diseases caused also exist within the oxides of the heavy metals and its forms i.e., organic and inorganic. As such, this section of the paper focuses on the diseases associated with heavy metal concentrations in alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages sold and consumed in Nigeria. Although we were well supported in Ocado and Asda, several retailers expressed concern about consumers trading down in the category,” said Richard Cawood, marketing manager at Don Simon owner J Garcia Carrión. “Ultimately, sales were not strong enough to justify the range.”Beverages consumed in Nigeria are produced locally or imported. Some local beverages widely consumed in Nigeria include palm wine (produced from the Raphia palm and oil palm tree) [ 7, 8], zobo (a food-drink produced from the leaves of Hibiscus sabdariffa) [ 9], kunu (produced from cereal, such as sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor), millet ( Penisetum typhoides), maize ( Zea mays), rice ( Oryza sativa), wheat ( Triticum aestivum), and acha ( Digitalis exilis) [ 6, 10, 11, 12]. Typically, non-alcoholic beverages, such as zobo and kunu, are vended in public places, including markets, motor parks, streets, outside schools, hospitals, and even expressways [ 2, 5, 6]. Generally, beverages are sold in restaurants, bars, supermarkets, and shops, or served at social functions, such as festivals, funerals, naming, weddings and marriage ceremonies. Beverages are also consumed at home by families during relaxation. However, the choice of beverages depends on individuals and locality.