Good advice for sure. I suppose I should make sure the tums in my center console won’t kill me
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FYI dont drink Diet soda thats been left in hot places. Aspartame degrades to some nasty compound.
Coke delivery guys make sure to rotate the diet soda when they deliver it (my wife took a day-in-the-life tour when she was at coke)
Aspartame breaks down in to methanol (which is then metabolized in to formaldehyde) when heated.
This sounds bad, but it's worth keeping in mind that plain tomato juice has something like 6x methanol in it than diet sodas. The quantities involved are tiny. Aspartame is metabolized in the same way when consumed cold. The big reason soda manufacturers are concerned about heat is that it loses its sweetness.
(all that being said, it's probably still a good idea to avoid anyway)