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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alt: illustration of a can labeled "diet double dew". it also says "half the sugar[,] half the caffeine of double dew". "dew the math!"
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.
I know, I'm kinda ashamed of myself.
No no, don't be! Unless it's like your kink or smth then uh... Go ahead?
Nothing that complex, I just think Marketing is just sanctioned official bullshit and wish it would go away. Informational advertising I get, but Marketing? Fuck no. That's just the sharp tip of consumerism trying to skewer you.
hmm, new: coke null!! no caffeine, no calories, no sweeteners, no carbonation, no added color, neutral ph...
I drink caffeine free zero because I like the taste but I need to reduce my caffeine and sugar consumption.
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.
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.
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.
That's a bummer. Though I an curious, flower or concentrates?
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.
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.
I envy you it reminds me of my childhood. I'm currently enjoying a cider taking a break in from the heat doing yardwork.
Must've been an interesting childhood...
Sorry I should have quantified that younger than 30 to me was my childhood lol. I didn't clean up until I had kids.
Think it's ironic you find cider over a joint cleaning up. To each their own.
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.
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.
I mean, there's still the cola taste?
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
Water that tastes fuckin well good? Sign me up
Almost every cola has caffeine as a given
Meanwhile people would take extra sugar extra caffeine and the OG coke too
Flavor town.
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.
I'm pretty sensitive to caffeine but I like soda, so I drink this. Mostly water and decaf coffee, though.
Isn't there a difference been "diet" and "zero"? Like doesn't one use aspartame and the other use a different "fake" sweetener?
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.
This somehow implies Kryptonite is made of/has caffeine on its composition.
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.
Yes, but no. In this fucked up world some zeros are bigger than others.
How did it taste?
I mean it's not far off in some unfortunate circumstances. I remember years ago I've heard of towns in Mexico that lack clean drinking water and people were drinking Coke because of the water it contained. Idk why, but that really stuck with me.
Edit: I think it was this article
It's not useless. It's marketing, pure capitalist marketing. Always has been. CocaCola is not a beverage company, it's a marketing company.
- may i have a pepsi?
- is marketing ok?
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).
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.
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"?
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"
kCal is a normal measurement in the UK too. I think anything being 4 kCal is probably negligible
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.
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.
2000000 of anything sounds like a lot, so why not use prefixes to simplify?
That's why you either use kcal (or Cal) or kJ, but not Mcal (or kCal, which is easily confused with kcal) or MJ, because most things you eat and drink are between 0 and a few hundred kcal. This way you have one unit and keep it consistent instead of switching between kcal and Mcal all the time or saying awkward stuff like you ate something that only had 0.004 Mcal.
Europeans use kilojoules to the same effect.
While kJ is required in labeling in Europe most people still use kcal for everything. AFAIK the only country somewhat consistently using kJ is Australia (the one with the kangaroos).
Rounding happens but no, you'll find nothing when that kind of delta and it'll be of zero consequences.


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