Lunch time experiment.

[mikekn]

For lunch I bought a bottle of Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Splenda, and Coke Zero and did a side by side taste test.  Diet Coke is still Diet Coke - I don't like it but I'm used to it.  The Splenda version does a good job of tasting the same without the aspartame after taste.  The new Coke Zero uses less aspartame and a different mix of the ingredients that are in Diet Coke.  To me it tastes like a flat Coke.  I don't notice the aftertaste, but neither is there much of the Coke bite.  Overall, my favorite of the three is the one with Splenda.  Some day I need to try the Coke Zero, Splenda and regular Coke together.

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

What about C2? The half-corn-syrup, half aspartame?

[mikekn]

I should probably add that to the second experiment too. It's not one I'd drink regularly, but I should see how it compares taste wise.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

John likes it much better than Diet Coke, although he said DC/Spenda was not bad.

[mikekn]

It probably tastes better then Diet Coke, but if I was going to keep drinking soda at all I wanted a zero calorie one. I figured I'd either get used to it or give it up all together (got used to it...)

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I will probably continue to drink raspberry-lime and cranberry-lime seltzer because I think all the diet colas are missing real coke's bite.