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I had each bottle/can of diet soda poured for me out of sight and brought to me at random.

Coca-Cola Move Zero Sugar (limited time Rosalía flavor).

If you want to find the best flavored sparkling water, hit up our flavored sparkling water taste test. So in order to narrow our scope a bit, we decided to eliminate drinks that are solely designed to be sugar-free - La Croix, Zevia, and similar fruit-flavored “sparkling waters.” To make it on this list, the soda has to be a sugar-free version of a full-sugar soda. In the past, we’ve blind taste-tested colas, cherry colas, fruit sodas, and root beer, and despite there being a lot of variety out there it doesn’t quite match the insane amount of sugar-free sodas out there.

Mountain dew zero sugar vs diet full#

Which got me thinking - what if I didn’t know I was drinking the sugar-free version of my favorite soda? Is there a diet soda out there that tastes good enough to fool me? I set out to find out by blind test-testing all the diet sodas I could in search of the most delicious (and the one that could best match its own full sugar version). People do like this stuff, that’s undeniable… even if I don’t get it. A few oddballs have even written articles about it, and clearly, the industry is healthy ( as in sales, not actually healthy) because diet soda is everywhere - from fast food fountains to convenience store shelves. Aspartame is now preferable to these weirdos over real sugar. But over the years, some people (a lot, in fact) have convinced themselves to like these flavors better. That’s sure to be a far more satisfying experience. You want half the calories of Coke? Drink half a coke. There are plenty of sugar-free non sweetened beverages out there that taste delicious, and yet people choose to drink something that tastes like a cheap substitute just so they can drink more of it? That’s odd, right? An example of half-assed maximalism.

But diet sodas taste, well, how can I put this nicely? F*cking weird. Don’t get me wrong, wanting to avoid the high sugar and high-calorie content of regular soda in favor of something that’s healthier - I get that. Diet Coke always tastes a little more like Pepsi to me.I don’t get diet sodas. They're a little different, both kinda gross. So, TLDR: Diet Coke is the diet version of the infamous 1985 "new coke" (although new coke was based on Diet Coke) Coke Zero is the diet version of classic Coke.Īs far as describing how the tastes differ, 🤷‍♂️. 20 years later in 2005, they decided to try the opposite of what happened in 1985 (and really another stab at what they tried in 1982 that resulted in the happy accident of Diet Coke): Just put diet stuff instead of sugar in the original Coke recipe. But they left Diet Coke alone, and it still to this day uses the "New Coke" base recipe. As everyone knows, that decision was a disaster and they switched back within a year, making their stock go up more than ever. So amazing that they famously decided to replace the main Coke with this wondrous new concoction made of the Diet Coke base recipe/not diet and call it "New Coke" or "Coke II". Internally, they decided it was amazing and the taste tests backed it up. However, it was a huge smash hit, so big that in 1985 they decided to see what the base Diet Coke recipe would taste like with sugar (well, HFCS) instead of Diet Coke's saccharine. The thing is, the base recipe turned out to be different than either one, and it wound up being a THIRD taste. The idea is that it would taste like Coke but diet like Tab. There was Diet Pepsi and Diet Rite (made by RC) but the only diet soda from Coke was Tab, which was(/is) a diet cola but tastes a little different than Coke even beyond the fact that it's diet Prior to 1982 Coke was Coke, there was no Diet Coke yet. The way I've always understood it is (my dad worked at Coke for 40 years): Flavor does differ a bit, with many saying drinks like Coke Zero Sugar have a stronger and “less diet” taste than the legacy Diet brands. Some people think there’s major differences in ingredients, but there’s typically almost no differences there.

So now we have Pepsi Zero Sugar (originally Pepsi Max) and Diet Pepsi, and then Mountain Dew Zero Sugar and Diet Mountain Dew.

Sprite and Fanta are often found with Zero now and their Diet brand versions have mostly been replaced. Then in the last couple years, both Pepsi and Coke decided to shift drinks to “Zero Sugar” and “Zero” branding more widely. It became a billion dollar brand by fulfilling the same calorie-free needs of customers (especially men), without the stigmas of Diet Coke. I know the answer is “marketing” but I find it really weird these companies are making second drink lines alongside long successful Diet lines.