Diet Orange Crush has 4 grams of sugar per serving; 15 calories.
Anything else?
I thought you guys would be on top of this.
That seems to be the only one. Pepsi One uses sucralose yet somehow has one calorie per serving.
There’s an energy drink called Venom that has a little bit of glucose in it, along with other sweeteners.
Vault Zero has 5 calories in a 12oz can due to a little orange juice in the mix.
I don’t know of any, but I have wondered why “reduced sugar” foods are nearly always made with artificial sweeteners. Why don’t they just use less sugar? I bought some reduced sugar breakfast cereal once (can’t remember the brand) and it really did just have less sugar than the regular variety. It tasted fine – not as sweet as the regular version, but plenty of breakfast cereals are too sweet for me anyway. Then I bought some other brand of “reduced sugar” cereal only to realize too late that it was full of Splenda, which I hate. I’d rather have something made with a more moderate amount of real sugar.
Bingo. Even Gatorade, which has half the sugar of Coke, has become far too sweet for me in the last few years. I usually dilute it with at least equal parts water, sometimes more. I guess that saves me money by stretching it twice as far, but you can’t do that with some products such as cereal, yogurt, ice cream, etc.
Almost every ‘sugar free’ energy drink has about 10g of glucose added in their ‘proprietary energy blend.’
Several organic juice-based diet sodas in my supermarkets have <10 calories per serving.
Are you sure about that? Because glucose is a sugar (and so is fructose for those who insist on distinguishing between “real” sugar and HFCS), so I don’t think they could label themselves Sugar Free if that’s the case. The few I’ve looked at (Red Bull and Monster, IIRC), have been 0 cal. Which ones are you referring to?
Off the top of my head, Monster (the blue one) and Rockstar Sugarfree both have 10 calories per serving. (warning, site has a benign but annoying flash pop-up ad.)
ETA: Okay, looks like there aren’t official “sugar free” labels on these, but it’s definitely the diet product.
ETA again: Also, Wired’s product also has sugar. I’ve long suspected these companies all get their energy formula from the same distributor. I also notice I said “ten grams,” when I meant “ten calories.” Doh!
Thanks. I hate the idea of artificial sweeteners but I’ve cut most unnecessary sugar out of my diet, and I’ve got some long (6:00am - 10:30pm) days coming up this fall, so these might come in handy. I don’t drink coffee and don’t much care for tea, either.
And the reason I was asking about sodas is because I’m fine with drinking water most of the time but, damnit, every once in awhile I need some carbonation and flavor!
Edit: And the Diet Orange Crush with a little bit of sugar in it is by far the most tolerable product I’ve found yet, though I’ve noticed it gives me stomachaches (oh, the slaves we are to taste.)
Heh. Diet Orange Crush is a personal favorite of mine, as well. I get by without the gastrointestinal distress, though. You’re aware it’s caffeinated, right?
Out of curiosity, do you mind justifying your aversion to artificial sweeteners? This isn’t a personal attack, I’m just curious to people’s motivations on this subject in particular. Does aspartame, a big jiggly amine bother you more than sucralose which just has a hydroxyl->chlorine swap?
More tangentially it sure looks like that hexane ring confers the sweetness. I can’t believe I haven’t noticed that before.
I don’t like artificial sweeteners either. Diet soda just tastes so awful to me. Like it has insecticide in it.
I used to wonder how anyone could drink it but have since come to realize that not everyone can taste the chemical aftertaste.