Now, Diet Coke with Splenda . . . It’s a little hard to spot; it’s got a blue borderon the silver label. Ambrosia. Low-calorie softdrink of the gods. Amazing. Almost without diety-taste. Coke has cracked the secret formula. Found the diet soda Holy Grail. Brought the diet pop of the future to us, here, today.
I wonder if the lack of a snazzy different name and the low-key labeling means that they intend to phase out normal Diet Coke in favor of the Splenda version?
Just to be sure to give Pepsi a fair chance, I got another Pepsi One today. Bleh. Tastes just no better or worse than plain Diet Pepsi.
I don’t think I’ve ever tried Diet RC.
And, FTR, I haven’t really liked any of the other Splenda-sweetend products I’ve tried: Diet V8 Splash, various uncarbonated flavored water products, etc. I guess it’s all in the way that you use it.
I’ve been drinking Diet Rite cola, and it tastes okay to me. I just tried Pepsi 1 with Splenda and it tastes about the same. I’ll have to try Diet Coke with Splenda.
Funny you’d bring it up; I tried Diet Coke with Splenda just last night for the first time, and flipped right out. Awesome. My girlfriend and I got one of each, Splenda and the regular aspartame just in case we didn’t like it, but like it we did.
Just to keep all you Splenda fans updated on the latest soft-drink reformulations, the maker* of Diet 7 UP said about two weeks ago it will switch to Splenda; the new version will hit store shelves on May 23.
Disclosure: I own stock in Tate & Lyle Plc, the sole maker of Splenda, and so urge all of you to chug away to your hearts’ content.
*Cadbury Schweppes Plc’s Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages unit, for the other business and financial geeks.
I had to quit drinking diet sodas because I was having really painful daily headaches that stopped when I quit the aspartame. Does anyone know if the Splenda would have the same effect? I’d like to get back to sugarfree sodas, if I could do so without the headaches.
Huh…I find a night-and-day difference between the two – Diet Pepsi is revolting (as are all diet sodas), while I quite like Pepsi One.
I just started drinking it two or three months ago, and was thrilled to find a one-calorie drink I liked. Less than a month later, they changed the formula. :smack:
Fortunately, the new Splenda-based version has grown on me (hopefulls, it won’t cause me to grow nads out of my forehead in 20 years or something…)
I’d bet dollars to donuts, that it wasn’t the switch from aspartame that got you, but rather a lack of caffeine. Many of the sodas that were early adopters of splenda were the sort that had no caffeine in them either.
I get headaches if I don’t get my requisite does of caffeine by about noon time, and avoid the “cheap” soda in the store, because, though it has the sweetener I like, it doesn’t have the drug I want!
The Butler household uses splenda to make Kool-aid, much better for you than the sugar version.
C2 has aspartame, acesulfame, and sucralose (Splenda).
Coke is supposed to be coming out with a new product “Coca Cola Zero” this summer. It’s supposed to taste “just like coca cola classic” but with zero calories. However it’s flavored with aspartame and acesulfame, so I doubt seriously it will taste “just like coca cola classic”.
If the problem had been only taste, I would have suggested giving up sugar entirely. I can taste aspartame and previous sweeteners, too, and I hated them. Splenda is much better, but giving up sugar made everything seem a lot sweeter in comparison. I reduced my sugar intake to just a couple of cans of soda in the evening, and then eliminated those. I did go through a mild “withdrawal”, probably similar to people who give up caffeine.
To clarify–I was having headaches WHILE I was consuming caffeinated diet soft drinks sweetened with aspartame. I switched to regular caffeinated Coke, and the headaches stopped. So I don’t think it was a caffeine issue, but an aspartame issue. I may try the Splenda-sweetened diet Coke, and see how it works.