Diet Coke has negative calories? 'Cause reading the can of Coke Zero that’s sitting on my desk right now it clearly says “Calories / Calories 0” (this being Canada, our product packaging is bilingual, except that “calories” is the same in both languages yet they feel compelled to put it twice). Perhaps we get better Coke Zero over here.
Coke Zero has more potassium 31/12g , more phosphorous 36/18g and less caffeine than Diet Coke 23/31g.
From here. WARNING PDF!
Cherry Coke Zero is better than any other soda on the market, and I am not a regular diet soda drinker.
Oh, and Diet Coke is vile while Coke Zero is palatable. Diet Dr. Pepper is also very drinkable.
Pretty much. Diet Coke tastes like a diet soft drink. Coke Zero almost tastes like real Coke. It’s the closest I’ve ever tasted a diet soft drink come to the regular variety.
When they developed Diet Coke back in the '80s, Coke’s first attempts were to simply replace the sugar out of normal Coke formula with aspartame, but the results were not very good, so they created a whole new formula and thus a whole new flavor.
Zero is supposed to be what they originally wanted to do with Diet Coke from the beginning, with 15 years of research in getting the formula “right”. To me, Zero is much more drinkable than Diet Coke and does taste like a reasonable facsimile of the original but is still too “chemical-y” for my tastes. I have my fingers crossed that eventually they’ll release a Splenda version and eliminate that damn NutraSweet aftertaste, and I’ll be able to drink the “real” stuff without worrying about the empty calories.
Well, I have here a genuine bottle of Coke Zero which I picked up at the sandwich place today for lunch. (In addition to a sandwich.)
I have to say I like it quite a lot. It tastes almost like regular Coke, but it does suffer from that slight aspartame-aftertaste that Diet Coke has. It’s pretty damn good though.
I think Coke Zero has the right balance of artificial sweeteners. I don’t like Nutrasweet on its own, and I don’t like Splenda on its own (I don’t know how to describe it, but it leaves a weird “round” taste/feel in my mouth). However, Nutrasweet with Ace K seems to perfectly balance the sweetness for me while eliminating most of the chemically nastiness.
Where I live, Diet Coke with Splenda came out last summer but was on the shelves for only a few months before being pushed out by Coke Zero. However, it’s not completely gone. The Safeways around here are still selling 12-can boxes of Diet Coke w/ Splenda but I don’t know for how much longer.
I tried a bottle of Coke Zero Plus last week and, to me, it tasted sweeter than Coke Zero (almost like Pepsi). Did it seem that way to anybody else?
:eek: AAAAGH MY EYES MY EYES MAKE THE PDF STOP!!11!!!
No seriously, that’s cool about Coke 0 having less caffeine. Now I will choose it when it’s available, especially since Caffeine Free Diet Coke usually isn’t.
I enjoy the chemical aftertaste of D C, and think the oily aftertaste of C 0 is vile. Sadly, Tab isn’t around anymore (at least here).
Diet Coke is good, Coke Zero is evil. It’s not the taste, it’s the aftertaste.
As of last year, Tab was still being shipped on special order to a few loyal customers. For some reason it’s particularly beloved of middle-aged New Yorkers, particularly men.
Ha! According to Wikipedia, Diet Coke with Splenda was only because Wal-Mart wanted it. And they gets what they wants.
I don’t have access to a bottle now, but their is some caloric content.
It might actually be KiloJoules instead of Calories, but Coke Zero had more than Diet Coke.
And no, it does not contain zero calories : Coca-Cola Zero Sugar - Wikipedia
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Depending on the country in which it is made, it has about 0.2 to 0.5 calories per 100 mL (3.4 US fl. oz.)*
I haven’t seen any Coke Zero Plus yet, but I have seen Diet Coke Plus. These “vitamins and minerals” are just small amounts of vitamins B3, B6, and B12 with some Zn and Mg. It’d probably be cheaper and more effective to take a multivitamin.
Well, we do take multivitamins, and I make sure the kids eat reasonably healthy foods, and such. But I’m figuring if they’re going to drink soda anyway (and Diet is all we ever bring into the house), they might as well get the added vitamins. It’s a 25% RDA of Niacin, B6 and B12, and 15%RDA of magnesium and zinc. Not a big deal, in the scheme of things. But my middle daughter drinks probably two or three cans a day (and unlike her father and I, she prefers the straight Diet Coke/Diet Pepsi to the flavors), and that hardly makes the vitamin counts insignificant. At the same time, it’s nothing that’s going to hurt her if she gets more than she needs (like Vit A would). My youngest, though, only drinks maybe a half a can a day. So she’s not getting so much out of it. But it sure is easier to buy the same kind of soda for both of them (and then I have to get Diet Vanilla Pepsi for the hubby, and then I have to get Crystal Light Orange Sunrise for me, because we’re all strange).
According to wikipedia as well, Diet Coke - Wikipedia, diet coke also contains calories:
(which works out to 0.4 Cal / 100mL)
The only thing I could find about the US version was a blurb on the Diet Coke website stating that “An eight-ounce serving or Diet Coke contains less than one calorie.”
Being able to put 0 Cal on the can for either one is the result of built-in rounding error.
Blacks don’t like Coke Zero.
I had a bottle of Coke Zero and a bottle of Diet Coke.
Here in the Netherlands there were more calories in Coke Zero.
I find it quite strange that the caloric content is different in different countries.
All in all they both barely contain calories anyway.
Really, why?
You are evil, you know.