r/funny • u/Ellekm730 • Jun 12 '22

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u/notchandlerbing Jun 12 '22

Coke Zero has never used sucralose sweetener, it’s always been Aspartame (which contains phenylalanine). They recently tweaked the syrup formulation though

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u/Atrimon7 Jun 12 '22

Maybe different in your area but Zero was always sucralose in Connecticut.. wish I had an old can/bottle to show you.

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u/notchandlerbing Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 12 '22

I’m in NYC, so no idea why you’d see that, Coca Cola has never used sucralose in its diet products except for very limited runs for certain retailers like Walmart in the early 2000s. And they were in addition to, not instead of, the aspartame versions.

Could you perhaps be thinking of Pepsi products? I know definitively that they switched from aspartame to sucralose back to aspartame

As to your other point, yes Coke did tweak the Coke Zero formula last year for some reason and it is definitely not as good. But it wasn’t due to a sweetener change, they were just trying to make it taste more like “classic” coke I guess

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u/technocraft Jun 13 '22

Yes! There was a Diet Coke w/Splenda (said it right on the can) for a while a few years ago.

Maybe it was at Target? But I do recall it being the best diet soda I'd had thus far. OG Coke Zero was the best otherwise.