• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    5 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.

  • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
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    6 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).

  • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 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”.

    • DisasterTransport@startrek.website
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      6 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)

    • gen/Eric Computers@lemmy.zip
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      6 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
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        6 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.

  • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

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

    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org
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      6 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.

  • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

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

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

  • Jack@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Doesn’t the USA use the word “calories” sometimes for kilocalories in food? So they divide the actual amount of calories by 1000. They also round certain things down, so that when they say “zero calories”, the can can actually have “3600 calories”?

    • lengau@midwest.social
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      6 days ago

      Yes, and then they have a whole thing about how under 5 kcal per serving can be rounded to zero because it’s negligible.

      That’s why despite nobody on the planet having ever eaten a single tic tac at a time, the serving size is 1 tic tac. That’s only 4 kcal, so in the US they can call it a “calorie-free snack”

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
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      7 days ago

      kCal is a normal measurement in the UK too. I think anything being 4 kCal is probably negligible

      • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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        6 days ago

        4 kCal is a lot, around twice what a normal person needs per day. There is cal (small calorie) and Cal (large calorie), 1 Cal is 1000 cal or 1 kcal, 1 kCal would be 1000 kcal or 1 Mcal.

        • happinessattack@sh.itjust.works
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          6 days ago

          US FDA nutritional guidelines are based on 2,000 kilocalories a day. Europeans use kilojoules to the same effect.

          I’m not sure any food in the USA uses a single calorie as a measurement of anything, because kilocalories make more sense in terms of units of scale in the human diet.

          2000000 of anything sounds like a lot, so why not use prefixes to simplify?

          Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake

          According to the FAO, the average minimum daily energy requirement is approximately 8,400 kilojoules (2,000 kcal) per adult and 4,200 kilojoules (1,000 kcal) a child.[3] This data is presented in kilojoules, as most countries today use the SI unit kilojoules as their primary measurement for food energy intake,[4] with the exception of the USA,[5] Canada,[6] and the UK, which use kilocalories or both.