Just a new can. They’ve been selling caffeine free Coke Zero for 15 years, and caffeine free Diet Coke for even longer.
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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.
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It's just soda then?
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.
We used to get caffeine free Diet Coke or Pepsi in the 80s for elementary school pizza parties.
It made the best burps.
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Next up - Coca Cola Still: all the same refreshing taste of Coke, but without any carbonation! Life is busy, just be Still.
Not going to lie, that's a good tagline.
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It has a use. Tasty fizzy drink with basically no calories, and caffeine fucks with my cannabis high. I get Canadian store brand tho.
I'm kinda pissed the Coca Cola recipe that was recently reverse engineered was the sugar version instead of zero.
Smoking a joint while drinking coffee this very moment 😅
Lucky! The combination gives me anxiety attacks these days. I can have one or the other but not both idk why.
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I'm guessing zero is a lot harder, but maybe that guy who did it needs a new objective
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.
what turned out to be the secret ingredient in the end?
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.
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alt: illustration of a can labeled "diet double dew". it also says "half the sugar[,] half the caffeine of double dew". "dew the math!"
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I drink caffeine free zero because I like the taste but I need to reduce my caffeine and sugar consumption.
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.
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.
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.
This is the perfect soda. All the flavor, with no drugs.
I don't know what soda as caffeine to begin with.
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It's not useless. It's marketing, pure capitalist marketing. Always has been. CocaCola is not a beverage company, it's a marketing company.
Homeopathic cola
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).
The "zero sugar" usually means they replace the sugar with something worse (that's often also a laxative).
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I'm pretty sensitive to caffeine but I like soda, so I drink this. Mostly water and decaf coffee, though.
Ohhh that reminds me I need to get some decaf. Nice.
Hahaha yeah no I'm drinking that daily, I don't have a sugar problem, I dont have a cafein problem, I have a soda problem
Tbh you probably shouldn't be drinking any of their products on a daily basis...
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Flavor town.
For some people this would be considered too spicy.
Honestly sometimes you just want something for hydration and has a bit of flavor don't get me wrong I love water but you know sometimes you want something that safety without having to worry about calories or caffeine.
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