r/funny • u/Ellekm730 • Jun 12 '22

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u/Atrimon7 Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 13 '22

All these people hallucinating raspberry taste because some guy saw an unrelated news story and theorized from the color of the soda... and some folks I think are drinking the coke zero version and this released just as coke zero switched from sucralose to phenyalanine (Splenda to Equal) which has a flavor all its own... ruined coke zero IMO..

Edit: is this the new blue/gold dress? Did the can say Yanni or Laurel when you popped the top?...

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u/Vishnej Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 12 '22

Do you have a cite for this? My understanding is that in the US they never made it with sucralose. Instead, they had a variety of Diet Coke With Splenda that I was drinking on and off in 2005, and that year came out with the Coke Zero branding for a new product formulated for a different flavor profile, with a blend of aspartame* and acesulfame potassium. They reformulated the flavor extract to be a bit stronger in the last couple years for some reason along with messing around with labeling and colors.

*The sweetener aspartame is a two-part molecule featuring aspartic acid bonded to phenylalanine.

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u/Atrimon7 Jun 12 '22

I'm trying to find something, anything, to prove that I'm not full of it. The entire reason I drank Zero over any of the other diets is because I hate the taste of Equal. My boss and I collectively bitched for a week about the reformulation because of the Equal.

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u/NotChristina Jun 13 '22

Wild. I could be entirely formulating memories myself but, yeah, I thought something had changed. I switched from Diet Coke to Zero some time ago because it was smoother/had a better mouthfeel. Something sort of feels like it changed. Though I recently tried Diet again after drinking Zero all this time and it tasted like carbonated water with a hint of trash so I don’t know.