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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I mean, there's still the cola taste?
And dissolved gas
Rather not.
Homeopathic cola
Tastes delicious and isn't 250 cals a bottle you nerd.
thirst principles
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
Rounding happens but no, you'll find nothing when that kind of delta and it'll be of zero consequences.
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.
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.
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!"
Just a new can. They’ve been selling caffeine free Coke Zero for 15 years, and caffeine free Diet Coke for even longer.
We used to get caffeine free Diet Coke or Pepsi in the 80s for elementary school pizza parties.
It made the best burps.
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.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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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.
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.
Ey, I agree with you. Marketing shouldn't exist
hmm, new: coke null!! no caffeine, no calories, no sweeteners, no carbonation, no added color, neutral ph...
Available at faucets everywhere.
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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.
Water that tastes fuckin well good? Sign me up
So, Water...?
Water tastes give, but cola tastes better, as do a lot of flavoured things!
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.
How did it taste?
Like water and brown.
Zero taste...... Would be fitting
Ok
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