• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    4·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    4 days ago

    Just a new can. They’ve been selling caffeine free Coke Zero for 15 years, and caffeine free Diet Coke for even longer.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
      20·
      4 days ago

      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)_/¯
    • MrKoyun@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      We used to get caffeine free Diet Coke or Pepsi in the 80s for elementary school pizza parties.

      It made the best burps.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        4 days ago

        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.

  • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    3 days ago

    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).

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    4 days ago

    Next up - Coca Cola Still: all the same refreshing taste of Coke, but without any carbonation! Life is busy, just be Still.

  • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    4 days ago

    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.

          • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 days ago

              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.

              • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago

                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.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 days ago

        I envy you it reminds me of my childhood. I’m currently enjoying a cider taking a break in from the heat doing yardwork.

      • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        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.

          • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            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.

  • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    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”.

    • gen/Eric Computers@lemmy.zip
      5·
      3 days ago

      Isn’t there a difference been “diet” and “zero”? Like doesn’t one use aspartame and the other use a different “fake” sweetener?

      • MacAttak8@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        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.

    • DisasterTransport@startrek.website
      1·
      3 days ago

      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)

        • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          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.

  • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    This is the perfect soda. All the flavor, with no drugs.

    I don’t know what soda as caffeine to begin with.

  • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    I drink caffeine free zero because I like the taste but I need to reduce my caffeine and sugar consumption.

  • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    The “zero sugar” usually means they replace the sugar with something worse (that’s often also a laxative).

    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        3 days ago

        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.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        3 days ago

        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.

    • offspec@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I don’t think it’s very common to use alcohol sugars to sweeten drinks, you might be thinking of candy or gummy bears?

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    16·
    4 days ago

    I visited my brother recently and his downstairs fridge was completely full of diet caffeine free soda. I tried a few and they tasted shockingly close to their normal counterparts. I don’t trust it, there has to be a cost I don’t realize I’m paying.

    But also, jesus christ at least sometimes drink some water. The whole family just hates water. They even have top notch H2O there, I’m jealous.

    • Duranie@leminal.space
      8·
      4 days ago

      Zero sugar sodas are 99% water.

      If I have a glass of water, I’ll drink it when I’m thirsty. If I have flavored water, I’ll consume more because it’s enjoyable and I stay better hydrated. I tend to use a LOT of ice, so really I’m drinking that water too.

  • sober_monk@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 days ago

    I like it. Tastes like Coke, which I like as an occasional treat, doesn’t keep me up at night and doesn’t make me gain weight.