Il Portogallo considera il divieto di vendita di bevande energetiche a under 16
https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/09/30/portugal-considers-ban-on-sale-of-energy-drinks-to-under-16s
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Il Portogallo considera il divieto di vendita di bevande energetiche a under 16
https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/09/30/portugal-considers-ban-on-sale-of-energy-drinks-to-under-16s
di euronews-english
9 commenti
They’ll have to wait until they reach their prime.
>Nutritionists and paediatricians have also been warning about the very high levels of sugar and caffeine in these drinks. A 500ml can contains the equivalent amount of sugar to 14 four-gram packets of sugar. As for caffeine, it’s the equivalent of five 330ml cans of Coca-Cola.
Yeah, that’s definitely a problem. I’d take a simple coffee without sugar over that if I wanted a boost.
Over 10 yrs ago a girl in my middle school died from a seizure in her sleep. It was most likely an undetected health issue, but she routinely drank multiple monster energy drinks a day and we believe this could have brought on the seizures so suddenly and unexpectedly. These energy drinks always gave me a bad vibe even before that and I won’t touch them.
Good for Portugal.
It would be great if this was an EU wide ban, having know of at least to kids who have been hospitalised due to excessive use of energy drinks it is very working the use of them by kids
Under-18s pls. Not better at all than smoking.
>Given this data, the DGS emphasised that “the consumption of energy drinks should be avoided by risk groups such as children, adolescents, pregnant women, nursing mothers and people with cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, hypertension or mental disorders, as they are more susceptible to the adverse effects of caffeine”.
Yeah, that’s caffeine related, all right. Are they going to ban cafes, restaurants and shops selling coffee to teenagers as well? No? Ok.
>14 four-gram packets of sugar
So… 56 grams of sugar? Who wrote that article? Abraham Lincoln?
But to actually add to the conversation, some other commenters mentioned that Poland already has such a ban. To add to this: Hungary, Latvia, and Lithuania also already have age restrictions, all at 18 years.
A 250ml can of RedBull (one of the most popular energy drinks out there) has less sugar than 250ml of Coke and about double the amount of caffeine, about 80mg which is still less than an average cup of coffee (100mg) and slighly more than than a cup of black tea (50mg).
This has nothing to do protecting the kids (otherwise they would ban all sugary drinks for kids) and more about government gaining even more power and controlling people.
Hungary already did this.
Children just buy (canned) coffee as it is exempt from the rules and a lot of manufacturers changed some of their products to fit the rules. As a last resort, they just drink coke as it also has the same amount of caffeine, just in a bigger package.
They basically gave the shit a slap and called it a day. Nothing changed, as kids now cant buy a 20mg/100ml caffeine content energy drink, but they can buy a 40mg/100ml coffee.