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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 14 hours 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.

[-] KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day 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).

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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".

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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)

[-] DanVctr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

I think they only put aspartame in Diet Coke but I could be wrong

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours 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.

[-] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day 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 points 1 day 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.

[-] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago

Typically, zero sugar versions include aspartame AND acesulfame K to improve the artificial sweetener flavor, where diet versions only contain aspartame.

[-] MacAttak8@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

TIL. Thanks!

[-] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This somehow implies Kryptonite is made of/has caffeine on its composition.

[-] krisevol@lemmus.org 9 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] offspec@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Almost every cola has caffeine as a given

[-] krisevol@lemmus.org 1 points 13 hours ago

I know, but i don't want the caffeine.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

I mean, there's still the cola taste?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Rather not.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 93 points 2 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.

[-] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours 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.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 19 points 2 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)_/¯ 
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[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Smoking a joint while drinking coffee this very moment 😅

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day 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.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Must've been an interesting childhood...

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry I should have quantified that younger than 30 to me was my childhood lol. I didn't clean up until I had kids.

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[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Can is full of water

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 days ago

Not going to lie, that's a good tagline.

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[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I mean I used to regularly have a Cuba Libre made with Caffeine Free Coke Zero. I'd definitely say it has a use; rum and Coke with lime after a nice dinner is fucking delicious, and the zero caffeine doesn't keep me awake at night.

I haven't seen Caffeine Free Coke Zero in any of my local stores for years so I'll be on the lookout for this new "zero caffeine, zero sugar" version.

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 days ago
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there's still salt

[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 24 points 2 days ago

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

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Homeopathic cola

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