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Coca-cola famously tried to sell bottled tap water in the UK as Dasani, but they abandoned it after they were very quickly exposed and ridiculed.
Uses:
- Pregnant women who would like a sugar-free cola beverage but can’t consume large amounts of caffeine.
- People with anxiety, insomnia, or other conditions that are worsened by caffeine who would like a sugar-free cola beverage.
- Anyone who would like a sugar-free cola beverage without caffeine?
Mind your own and let people enjoy their lives (and their sugar-free cola beverages).
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”.
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)
I think they only put aspartame in Diet Coke but I could be wrong
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.
Isn’t there a difference been “diet” and “zero”? Like doesn’t one use aspartame and the other use a different “fake” sweetener?
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.
Typically, zero sugar versions include aspartame AND acesulfame K to improve the artificial sweetener flavor, where diet versions only contain aspartame.
This somehow implies Kryptonite is made of/has caffeine on its composition.
This is the perfect soda. All the flavor, with no drugs.
I don’t know what soda as caffeine to begin with.
Almost every cola has caffeine as a given
I mean, there’s still the cola taste?
And dissolved gas
Rather not.
Can is full of water
The “zero sugar” usually means they replace the sugar with something worse (that’s often also a laxative).
Is there any actual evidence that artificial sweeteners are less healthy than sugar? Sugar in drinks contributes significantly to obesity, which in turn significantly increases the risk for a lot of health problems.
It seems like sucralose is not very unhealthy.
However the big name brands like Coke use aspartame which is a carcinogen and should be avoided.
cracks open a can of Coke Zero
Beats sugar though.
There’s evidence that it’s less healthy than drinking water, not sure about any studies about the long term effects that would consider also the obesity related issues. If you’re obese, manage to use artificial sweeteners to cut down on sugar, lose a bunch of weight doing that, and then drop those too, artificial sweeteners might literally save your life. If you don’t have a weight issue, it’s probably best not to start consuming them out of the blue.
I don’t think it’s very common to use alcohol sugars to sweeten drinks, you might be thinking of candy or gummy bears?
I mean I used to regularly have a Cuba Libre made with Caffeine Free Coke Zero. I’d definitely say it has a use; rum and Coke with lime after a nice dinner is fucking delicious, and the zero caffeine doesn’t keep me awake at night.
I haven’t seen Caffeine Free Coke Zero in any of my local stores for years so I’ll be on the lookout for this new “zero caffeine, zero sugar” version.
there’s still salt
It has a use. Tasty fizzy drink with basically no calories, and caffeine fucks with my cannabis high. I get Canadian store brands tho.
I’m kinda pissed the Coca Cola recipe that was recently reverse engineered was the sugar version instead of zero.
Smoking a joint while drinking coffee this very moment 😅
I envy you it reminds me of my childhood. I’m currently enjoying a cider taking a break in from the heat doing yardwork.
Must’ve been an interesting childhood…
Sorry I should have quantified that younger than 30 to me was my childhood lol. I didn’t clean up until I had kids.
Think it’s ironic you find cider over a joint cleaning up. To each their own.
One cider does not a drunk make but one joint will get me stoned. 3 drinks a week at this point compared to a joint or 3 a day. Was a pretty big shift.
Lucky! The combination gives me anxiety attacks these days. I can have one or the other but not both idk why.
That’s a bummer. Though I an curious, flower or concentrates?
For the past 2 years I’ve been using concentrates via 510 carts in Canada, unscented/no flavour additives. Before that I used a dry vape with cheaper pre-ground flower, but short battery life and maintenance got annoying plus dosage control is worse. Smoked before legalisation.
I love the no fuss delivery of concentrates, but found they randomly would cause me to have anxiety or paranoia. Went back to joints and haven’t had an issue since.
It’s the same experience no matter how I consume it personally but we’re all different. I’m just an anxious person in general.
I’m guessing zero is a lot harder, but maybe that guy who did it needs a new objective
LabCoatz for those interested but he never said anything about zero sugar that I can recall so when it comes to difficulty I have no idea since I’m not a chemist.
what turned out to be the secret ingredient in the end?
For the mystery “natural flavours,” mass spectrometry was used. He got the essential oils and their quantities down: lemon oil, lime oil, tea tree oil, cinnamon oil, nutmeg oil, orange oil, coriander oil, and a natural pine–like flavour called fenchol.
Was still missing coca. Then he realised they were basically tea leaves and the mystery flavour was actually tannins, which are non-volatile, so using mass spectrometry tannins won’t show up. He found wine tannins are commercially sold in a water–soluble powder form, and this was the key pretty much.
This mix then had to be heated to blend/mature the essential oils, and then left to sit for 24 hours before being used in the final recipe to exact match the flavour profile.
thats amazing!
Quantity of sugar is on the label, chemical replacements are not
Just a new can. They’ve been selling caffeine free Coke Zero for 15 years, and caffeine free Diet Coke for even longer.
The new can is really cool though. I definitely would buy this is I saw it in a store. The marketing would work on me.
We used to get caffeine free Diet Coke or Pepsi in the 80s for elementary school pizza parties.
It made the best burps.
Yeah… I don’t drink Coke often but I like caffeine free diet coke / coke zero. I don’t want the sugar and I don’t need caffeine.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯It’s just soda then?
🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Yeah yeah I know what Coca cola is. I’m asking what’s left in it after removing caffeine and sugar.
A bubbly cola favored beverage.
Various chemical compounds that make most of the flavour of the drink, sugar free sweetners and that’s it
It’s a cola flavored sugar free soda.
- Diet coke w or w/o caffeine = aspartame
- Coke Zero w or w/o caffeine = aspartame + Ace-K
Different artificial sweeteners with slightly different taste profiles.
Homeopathic cola
Tastes delicious and isn’t 250 cals a bottle you nerd.
Next up - Coca Cola Still: all the same refreshing taste of Coke, but without any carbonation! Life is busy, just be Still.
Not going to lie, that’s a good tagline.
I know, I’m kinda ashamed of myself.
No no, don’t be! Unless it’s like your kink or smth then uh… Go ahead?
Nothing that complex, I just think Marketing is just sanctioned official bullshit and wish it would go away. Informational advertising I get, but Marketing? Fuck no. That’s just the sharp tip of consumerism trying to skewer you.
Ey, I agree with you. Marketing shouldn’t exist
hmm, new: coke null!! no caffeine, no calories, no sweeteners, no carbonation, no added color, neutral ph…
Available at faucets everywhere.
i always let the carbonation escape before i drink it, as i don’t like it. i like the taste however
alt: illustration of a can labeled “diet double dew”. it also says “half the sugar[,] half the caffeine of double dew”. “dew the math!”
Half of a double? There might be a less verbose term for that.
