water, acids for the sour taste, coloring, caffeine and sweetener that is more effective than sugar and just activates the sweet taste buds, but has no significant nutritiinal value.
you also forgot the coke-leaves extracts. ("natural flavors")
How is this the top comment... Sodas are flavor extracts at their core. The amount of other things are just there to balance or optimize those core flavors. Sweet, salty, acidic, viscosity, color, fizz... All choices on top of the flavor extracts. Diet soda just substitutes sugar for low calorie sweeteners.
Aspartame has about the same amount of calories as sugar (4kcal per gram). But it's much more sweet so you need very little of it. So there is a very tiny amount of sweetener which does contain calories but it's rounded down to 0.
The difference is also big enough that cans of diet coke float and regular sink.
You son of a bitch.......now I gotta buy a can of diet coke, and a can of coke.
I don't even LIKE diet coke! But I gotta know if you're full of shit...
Well, this will be my next party trick somehow.
If memory serves a 12oz can is just a little under 1/2 calorie.
If tens of thousands of commercials I heard in the 80s were right…
“Less than a calorie, Diet Coke!”
egg white is 90% water. it doesn't take much to drastically alter water
The person that typed this comment is about 60% water.
Extreme dehydration, kindly drink 10% more water
You ugly bag of mostly water...
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/769164/nutrients
INGREDIENTS: CARBONATED WATER, CARAMEL COLOR, ASPARTAME, PHOSPHORIC ACID, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE), NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, CAFFEINE.
The nutrition panel only captures a subset of important bioavailable nutrients.
For example, water is obviously a digestible nutrient, but is not represented there on.
Exactly, the nutrition label isn't a list of all substances found by chemical analysis, it's literally just the most important "nutrition" information
what is in it is listed in the ingredients list.
What??
I believe its mostly soda water and caramel coloring (no duh)
The sweetness is from aspartame, a very common artificial zero-calorie sweetener.
Aside from that it's gonna be a (trade secret, they'll never tell us) mixture of artificial and natural flavorings. All virtually zero calorie, and probably in very small amounts.
It's a cola with an artificial sweetener. There's lots of misinformation out there about diet soda. It mostly passes through you, unlike regular soda which has lots of sugar that your body stores as fat. Not to say either one is healthy because it most certainly is not. However, phosphoric acid in cola (both regular and diet) can lead to an increased risk of kidney stones. In case anyone is wondering I do not work for big soda, I've just read way too much about this topic. That being said please drink more water. Unsweetened tea or black coffee is also acceptable. Anything is fine in moderation. Soda is supposed to be a treat enjoyed once in a while, now it's a mass market product that is way too accessible. And no diet soda does not cause cancer, please stop citing a garbage study that has been disproven every subsequent trial.
I wasn't even under the illusion that it would be good for me, lol.
Even IF Diet Coke is a sometimes drink for me, that 'sometimes' means 'once every saturday' -- It'll probably give me diabetes long-term but y'know. Some people ruin their livers with alcohol, some people fuck their lungs with cigs, I'm screwing up my pancreas with diet soda. 🤷
In Australia they give (from largest to smallest):
Ingredients
- Carbonated Water
- Colour (150d)
- Food Acids (338, 330)
- Sweeteners (951, 950)
- Flavour
- Caffeine
With the numbers corresponding to:
It's all about how they sweeten the drink. Regular coke uses corn syrup while diet coke uses aspartame. This allows the diet coke to have no calories.
Yeah but Coke isn't JUST sweeteners (it's real sugar over here u-u) and water. At least according to the ingredients list, there's like, the extract of a weird nut (the Cola nut!), you'd think that would have some sugars and ~organic bits~ (proteins? Idk) of its own
Kinda like how juices with "no added sugar" still have some calories, idk
It's so little per serving they're permitted to not list it.
It's like 0 calories - they're permitted to say that when it's below a certain level, per serving that (I think) it's in the error range of measurement.
I seem to recall that if the total calories are below a certain point they're still allowed to call it "zero calorie". Diet Coke is mostly water which has no calories and all the other ingredients probably amount to like 2 or 3 calories total. Since that's considered a negligible amount they just list it as zero
Human taste is actually quite remarkable, to the point of noticing a single drop of fruit juice in a liter of water if dissolved well. You don't need much to add a basic flavour to stuff. The original coca cola recipe measures the various plant oils in drops per 2½ gallon. The recipe has been altered over the years, or course.
Coke is sugar, coloured sith sugar, flavoured by sugar, dissolved in acid because water wouldn't be able to dissolve that much sugar without making you want to vomit, with a bunch of cafeïne. Oh, and some plant oils for flavour.
Diet coke is much less sugar (of a more complicated type), coloured by sugar, dissolved in acid, with a bunch of cafeïne and some plant oils for flavour.
Coke zero is acid with a tiny bit of sweetener, coloured by sugar, with a bunch of cafeïne and some plant oils for flavour.
Almost all of the taste of coke is sugar or sweetener. The other ingredients are added in such small quantities that they barely add up to a calorie per serving.
A 330mL can of coke contains 33 grams of sugar. Two cans of coke and you have exceeded your daily sugar intake (which includes all the other food and drinks you consume as well, so you'd better not eat any processed food for the rest of the day, let alone drink a glass of milk!).
Kinda like how juices with "no added sugar" still have some calories
That's because fruits naturally have sugar in them.
Yes there are more differences and there's likely different recipes based on where you live. But the main one, from my understanding, is what I said in my original comment.
As I understand diet coke uses sucralose, not aspartame as sweetener.
Sucralose has a different sweetness profile, much closer to real sugar and is not bitter. Compared to aspartame in zero/light that needs 0.2g salt/liter to cover up the bitterness.
This is not correct.
Diet Coke definitely still uses aspartame and not sucralose.
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