Yeah I love me some Coke zero but a bunch of studies have been coming out that just say fake sugar is fucking bad for your brain and might make you retarded so you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t the best move would be cutting them out entirely
Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Coke Zero is sweetened with sucralose, not HFCS or cane sugar. It’s a diabetic friendly alternative. It might taste closer to Coke made with cane sugar, but I’m not sure. I don’t drink soda anymore, but I do drink Gatorade Zero.
I recommend sucralose sweetened beverages over HFCS and cane sugar ones.
dickalan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I have another reason for cutting out soda, but as far as artificial sweeteners go, one is the devil you know (sucrose/sugar) and the other is a bunch of maybes (sucralose). Maybe someday they discover something wrong with it and invent something better. Or humanity just turns on sugar like we’ve turned on tobacco/nicotine…
dickalan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yeah I really just need to fucking drink water at least that shit has fluoride in it, not a dig on fluoride, my mom had such horrible teeth from living in unincorporated town
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, I realise Coke Zero is not sweetened with HFCS or cane sugar. That knowledge is in fact central to my actual question: does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yeah, I was confused by the wording of the question. Wasn’t trying to weasel around the comment as much as I was trying to make sense of it.
I read it again. You seem to think that Coke Zero in the US is made to taste like HFCS because that’s what the US puts in regular soda? Because that’s not the case. Sucralose doesn’t emulate the flavour of HFCS or cane sugar.
Here’s a Wikipedia article on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose
As to whether it tastes different, I suppose it might. Coca-Cola prides itself on a “secret recipe” known only to a few, but like a few other products that claim the same, this is mostly marketing. The “secret” to Coca-Cola is that, in the US, the company has the exclusive right to import the coca plant and extract from it. This process can be used to make the narcotic cocaine, and in fact Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine. It doesn’t now, but it does still contain coca extract, which no other soda from another company can do. I do not know how the United Kingdom regulates the coca plant. If they don’t grant Coca-Cola the right to use it, they cannot make US Coca-Cola in the UK, and they probably can’t import the safe, cocaine-free extract from the US, either. It depends.
So, I think your question should have less to do with how the beverage is sweetened or if the UK lets them make it the same way the US does. I assume the UK is your country, since Coke is made in the US (was invented there, in/near Atlanta, Georgia) so it’s kind of the baseline.