Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all
Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?
Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all
Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?
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.
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!).
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
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.