Comment on What the hell even is Diet Coke?

Sundial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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  • Sundial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kinda like how juices with “no added sugar” still have some calories

    That’s because fruits naturally have sugar in them.

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