• KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Uses:

    • Pregnant women who would like a sugar-free cola beverage but can’t consume large amounts of caffeine.
    • People with anxiety, insomnia, or other conditions that are worsened by caffeine who would like a sugar-free cola beverage.
    • Anyone who would like a sugar-free cola beverage without caffeine?

    Mind your own and let people enjoy their lives (and their sugar-free cola beverages).

  • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
    72·
    14 hours ago

    In the 80s, they called this Caffeine Free diet Coke and it was even free of kryptonite.

    All that really changed is that “zero” is now more catchy than “diet”.

    • gen/Eric Computers@lemmy.zip
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Isn’t there a difference been “diet” and “zero”? Like doesn’t one use aspartame and the other use a different “fake” sweetener?

      • MacAttak8@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 hours ago

        So up until recently I thought the same. I thought “Zero Sugar” used sucralose (Splenda) and diet used aspartame. Compared them at the store and Discovered that both Mountain Dew zero sugar and diet mountain dew are sweetened with the same fake sweetener, aspartame. The two drinks taste different to me. Maybe other brands do use different sweeteners but not Pepsi it seems.

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I mean I used to regularly have a Cuba Libre made with Caffeine Free Coke Zero. I’d definitely say it has a use; rum and Coke with lime after a nice dinner is fucking delicious, and the zero caffeine doesn’t keep me awake at night.

    I haven’t seen Caffeine Free Coke Zero in any of my local stores for years so I’ll be on the lookout for this new “zero caffeine, zero sugar” version.

  • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
    10·
    17 hours ago

    This is the perfect soda. All the flavor, with no drugs.

    I don’t know what soda as caffeine to begin with.

  • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    401·
    1 day ago

    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.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
        1·
        12 hours ago

        I envy you it reminds me of my childhood. I’m currently enjoying a cider taking a break in from the heat doing yardwork.

          • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            For the past 2 years I’ve been using concentrates via 510 carts in Canada, unscented/no flavour additives. Before that I used a dry vape with cheaper pre-ground flower, but short battery life and maintenance got annoying plus dosage control is worse. Smoked before legalisation.

            • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 hours ago

              I love the no fuss delivery of concentrates, but found they randomly would cause me to have anxiety or paranoia. Went back to joints and haven’t had an issue since.

              • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                10 hours ago

                It’s the same experience no matter how I consume it personally but we’re all different. I’m just an anxious person in general.

      • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        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.

          • BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            20 hours ago

            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.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    911·
    2 days ago

    Just a new can. They’ve been selling caffeine free Coke Zero for 15 years, and caffeine free Diet Coke for even longer.

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    58·
    2 days ago

    Next up - Coca Cola Still: all the same refreshing taste of Coke, but without any carbonation! Life is busy, just be Still.

  • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    I drink caffeine free zero because I like the taste but I need to reduce my caffeine and sugar consumption.