The video of Yang Kou Xian (a kind of beverage) being used as a condom went viral on the Internet and netizens were shocked to find they had been drinking "gelatin" for many years.

by mlwang on 2011-12-20 13:53:49

Recently, beverage giant Wahaha was embroiled in a "drinking" controversy. Its newly launched drink, which perfectly combines pure fruit juice with creamy milk, called Nutri-Fast, was recently exposed online with a message about using Nutri-Fast as a condom, sparking discussions among many netizens.

It is reported that the method of making a condom from Nutri-Fast was wildly praised by netizens on Tieba. Many netizens were astonished and commented, "How much 'gel' have we already consumed?" Some websites even held discussions on forums regarding the method of making condoms from Nutri-Fast. Wahaha issued a statement last night in response to the incident of using Nutri-Fast as a condom, stating that due to the high milk protein content in Nutri-Fast products, the dehydration process resulted in a normal protein gel phenomenon. Additionally, regarding the doubts about excessive additives in Nutri-Fast, Wahaha stated that the product labels and additives fully comply with all national safety standards.

Recently, a netizen conducted an experiment by pouring a bottle of Wahaha Nutri-Fast into a porcelain plate. Overnight, the beverage turned into a white gel-like substance. This news quickly caught the attention and raised questions among netizens, "The evaporation speed feels fast enough; water of equal milliliters would never completely evaporate overnight." A journalist who purchased a bottle of Nutri-Fast found that the protein content labeled on the product was only 1% (1.0 grams per 100 milliliters), far below the 3.3% figure for pure milk. Moreover, the bottle indicated a total of 11 food additives.

Renowned expert Wang Dingmian said in an interview with reporters yesterday that so-called "Nutri-Fast" is actually not nutritious. To improve the taste, these types of products require adding many additives. "The rubber-like substance that appeared in the netizen's experiment could likely be due to these additives not being sufficiently dissolved, reacting with each other to form a precipitate," said well-known food safety expert Dong Jinshi. Currently, there is no evidence proving that Wahaha's products have quality issues, as these 11 additives are allowed to be added. Due to enterprise technology and formula confidentiality issues, the state does not require enterprises to specify exact additive contents.

On the official website of Wahaha, Nutri-Fast is described as: "All-in-one nutrition, carefully developed by Wahaha Group based on the unique dietary structure and nutritional status of Chinese people, it is a completely new milk fruit shake beverage." The biggest feature of dairy-containing beverages is the low content of dairy components, with protein content mostly ranging between 0.7% to 1.3%. If strictly classified, it does not belong to dairy products but merely contains milk components, and its actual nutritional value is much lower than milk. Therefore, in the eyes of some industry insiders, the actual nutritional value of "Nutri-Fast" is far lower than milk.