It seems like opting for the diet version of your favorite carbonated drink doesn’t mean that your getting decaf. Diet Blog lists the Top 10 Most Caffeinated Diet Drinks and you have to be amazed at the numbers.

Who would have thought that Diet Pepsi Max (the top of the list of mg/12 oz cans) contains more caffeine (69 mg) than a teaspoon of instant coffee powder. Sure, you may not get sugar high, but you’d get a jolt from caffeine (that is, if you’re still affected by caffeine).

What’s amazing is that you’d probably expect that it’d be the cola drinks that would occupy top spots but at the number 2 and 3 spots respectively are Sun Drop (69 mg) and Mountain Dew (55 mg) which are citrus drinks. Another shocker is Diet Coke. Who’d expect that the diet version has more caffeine than the regular Coke.

I’ve practically stopped drinking carbonated drinks in general since 1) the regular versions contains too much sugar and 2) the diet version contain aspartame which is reported to cause cancer. I want to live just a tad bit longer than my folks (diabetics and dead) so I’ve been sticking to good old water as my drink of choice.

Via Lifehacker.