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[nio]

I am an ex-smoker, so the idea of getting 28 smokes worth of nicotine+ in a 1 shot bottle disgusts me.

[casey's moon]

I've heard that ,박카스 wasn't safe but I never knew why.... scary.

[Son Deureo!]

Read the label of your bottle of Bacchus a little more closely. You saw the 20mg of 니코티나미드 and got concerned.

Nicotinamide, however, is not another name for nicotine. It's another name for niacin, AKA vitamin B3, AKA nicotinic acid.

[quote=Wikipedia]Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid or vitamin B3, is a water-soluble vitamin whose derivatives such as NADH, NAD, NAD+, and NADP play essential roles in energy metabolism in the living cell and DNA repair. The designation vitamin B3 also includes the amide form, nicotinamide or niacinamide, whose chemical formula is C6H6N2O. Severe lack of niacin causes the deficiency disease pellagra, wherein a mild deficiency slows down the metabolism decreasing cold tolerance. The recommended daily allowance of niacin is 2-12 mg a day for children, 14 mg a day for women, 16 mg a day for men, and 18 mg a day for pregnant or breast-feeding women.[/quote]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide

At 20 mg per bottle it's a bit over the Recommended Daily Allowance, but it's not gonna kill ya.

[nio]

[billybrobby]

So it turns out that drinking 3 small bottles of a common beverage ISN'T going to kill me? shocking.

[djsmnc]

I'm sickened and angry that Koreans would allow so much nicotine to be put in their energy drinks. Don't they have any health standards??

This is why I constantly see people randomly collapsing and dying on the streets...It's the energy drinks!

[Troll_Bait]

[Horangi Munshin]

Which vitamins are fat soluble, do you know if they're in these kinds of drinks. My wife is always handing these things too me.

Yes I'm lazy.

[Jeju Rocks]

Once, this guy told me that he used to work at that factory. He and the other guys would take a whiz in the big vats of the stuff during thier smoke break.

[Delirium's Brother]

Vitamin A is fat soluble. You can poison yourself by taking too much. But you also need it in you diet to protect your vision among other things!

[wylies99]

[Gaber]

Lol, honest mistake.

A and D are fat soliuble. Vitamin A is the only one I've heard of causing any major incidents. The evidence around dangerous levels of D is pretty inconclusive. A will kill you if you take significantly more that a few grams, this most commenly occures when someone eats the liver of a large carnivore, as this is where A is stored. If you were to consume 30 grams in one siting chance are you'd be done for. Not sure about others.

[billybrobby]

[Hyeon Een]

[Guri Guy]