Listen, Mr. SnarkyPants, I asked a simple question about aspartame and got of bunch of medical advice.
No, nobody explicitly said “drink your pepsi”, but I certainly got links to a bunch of studies suggesting that aspartame will actually lower blood pressure, which has left me, understandably, IMHO, confused, so take your snooty tone and stuff it.
With all due respect it wasn’t a simple question. If you had left it at “What diet drinks do not contain Aspartame?” you would have been spared most of the commentary in this thread. However, it was followed up with what might well be non-factual medical information. That made the medical rebuttals you’ve seen relevant to the OP.
You say tomato, I say tomato (that loses something in this medium, huh?)
The medical information is fine - interesting, even - but getting snarky with me when I express confusion is totally uncalled for.
It is possible that switching from sugar to aspartame caused a weight loss which led to the lower blood pressure, rather than the aspartame itself, if you see what I mean.
I don’t know what kind of sweetener is in it, but the reason it tastes more like regular Coke is because Diet Coke has a totally different formula than regular Coke, and Coke Zero uses the same formula as regular Coke. I have been wondering if they were able to do that because the regular Coke formula doesn’t taste good with Nutrasweet, but since Splenda tastes more like sugar, they are able to substitute it more easily. But I keep forgetting to check the Coke Zero label in the store to see what is in it.
I’m such a doofus, because I don’t even drink diet soda at all…I just am really interested in Coca-Cola & their various products & marketing! 
Of course. However, that doesn’t really apply in my particular circumstances, and the researchers weren’t able to conclusively say which it was, so I’m sort of confused.
Obviously my OP was poorly written, but at the end of the day I am the patient that’s been advised something by her physician which I’m trying to follow. If I’m offered a bunch of contradictory information here, it not only makes sense that I might be confused, but also that I might be concerned because it is MY BP being discussed in this particular thread, even if, to the people posting to it, it’s only hypothetical patient X.
Ya know what I mean?
O.E.D. lists -e as a valid alternative. I don’t have any Tab here to check coke’s preferred orthography.
Diet Rite has 0 sodium. It also has 0 carbs, caffeine, and calories, which makes it the uber diet soda in my book. Tastes better than Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi. It’s at least as good as Coke Zero, which goes flat remarkably quick. All that AND it’s almost always on sale at Kroger for $2.99-$3.33 per 12-pack.
So can you get it in Canada? I’ve never seen it, but perhaps some obscure store?
Then there appears to be some variability in the formula; my Diet Pepsi bottle lists potassium benzoate as the fifth ingredient. Sodium isn’t mentioned explicitly, so it must be among the natural flavors.
Since the first part of the OP has been answered, and the OP has the benefit of informed opinions from other posters(including a real doctor)about the second part of the OP and choses to disregard it, leaving this open serves no useful purpose.
Closed.
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