• betanumerus@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    In the 80s, they called this Caffeine Free diet Coke and it was even free of kryptonite.

    All that really changed is that “zero” is now more catchy than “diet”.

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      7 hours ago

      Diet coke retains the “new coke” recipe but with aspartame whereas coke zero is the “classic coke” recipe just with ace k and aspartame

      I think, idk what I’m talking about I just like coca cola (the drink, not the company)

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          2 hours ago

          My source tells me both have both aspartame and ace k (Acesulfame potassium), but their flavour formulation is different. Diet Coke is meant to be a little different from Classic Coke, while Coke Zero is meant to mimic Classic Coke. So we were all a little right and a little wrong.

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      20 hours ago

      Isn’t there a difference been “diet” and “zero”? Like doesn’t one use aspartame and the other use a different “fake” sweetener?

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        19 hours ago

        So up until recently I thought the same. I thought “Zero Sugar” used sucralose (Splenda) and diet used aspartame. Compared them at the store and Discovered that both Mountain Dew zero sugar and diet mountain dew are sweetened with the same fake sweetener, aspartame. The two drinks taste different to me. Maybe other brands do use different sweeteners but not Pepsi it seems.

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          Typically, zero sugar versions include aspartame AND acesulfame K to improve the artificial sweetener flavor, where diet versions only contain aspartame.