I've seen it in can form at grocery stores. Regular code red in fountain form in gas stations.
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Mountain Dew Zero Sugar launches (won’t replace Diet Mtn Dew, which is part of a confusing trend)
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I saw 12 packs of this last week at Target and bought two cases. I'm not looking for a difference in ingredients, there is much more than a slight difference in flavor, they taste completely different. Yet there are people who actually prefer the flavor of the "diet" variants vs the "zero sugar" ones. This is extremely close to the real thing, enough to get my fix without missing the real stuff. I love it and hope to see zero sugar versions of the other flavors too.
Diet code red used to be easier to find but they've reduced it a lot to what areas get it. Used to be I could find it in Atlanta and take some with me. And Wisconsin too. Those are the last places I found it.
Now please release diet Baja Blast in bottles so I don't need to go to Taco Bell just for that.
I find the "Zero" drinks to be more flavorful. Where diet drinks taste more watered down.
I find the "Zero" drinks to be more flavorful. Where diet drinks taste more watered down.
This 100%.
I usually have a Coke Zero at work every day. We had a BBQ at work last year with coolers filled with coke and Diet Coke. I wanted a soda but I ended up just choosing water lol, because I really don't like the taste of Diet Coke.
I saw this at the checkout when getting groceries and decided to give it a try.
It's pretty good. Tastes like an off-brand Mountain Dew.
It's pretty good. Tastes like an off-brand Mountain Dew.
For real. Same as you. Going to track down a bottle of this to give it a go.
Lol... they taste absolutely nothing alike. Your taste buds are broken.
Sorry :( However, the linked study was around 50% people noticing the difference. I have the underdeveloped caveman mouth, while you have a chemically sensitive mutant one.
Found a bottle. Oddly, it's less...intense? Like an earlier post said, almost no aftertaste. But I don't find as big of a difference as say Diet Coke/Coke Zero or Diet Pepsi/Pepsi Zero.
This please. I've heard it actually exists in the US, but very select places.
I guess I'll try it but I acquired the Diet Mt Dew taste a long time ago and hated regular Dew after. I'm not really looking for "Tastes like Regular Mt Dew!" in a drink.
It exists here in SC. I've posted pics of cans in my kitchen before when people were in disbelief that it exists at all. The thing is though, I only see it at the grocery stores around here like once every four months or so. It's not plentiful, that's for sure.
Is it good? I find Cherry Diet Pepsi is even better than regular Diet.
If you can't tell the difference between Coke Zero Sugar and Diet Coke then your sense of taste is gone.
I was basically evangelizing for Zero when the formula changed. I gave samples to at least 50 people.
Anecdotal, but every single man said something like "Sweet Jesus, it's almost like a real Coke." and every woman said something like "Gross. Diet Coke is better.".
At least they could all tell the difference, though.
I was basically evangelizing for Zero when the formula changed. I gave samples to at least 50 people.
Anecdotal, but every single man said something like "Sweet Jesus, it's almost like a real Coke." and every woman said something like "Gross. Diet Coke is better.".
At least they could all tell the difference, though.
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Coke Zero tastes like regular Coke with a slight aftertaste and Diet Coke tastes like Satan's anal secretions.
Picked up a couple 12-packs at Walmart today. It's really good. The cans are cool, they have like a matte-finish on them, not shiny like a normal pop can.
I used to be able to find Diet Code Red in 12-packs here but that's been a few years now. I miss it.
Excited to try Diet Dew No Sugar. Haven't seen it yet.
It's good. I work for Pepsi and we had a tasting of it. I really enjoyed it. Only downside for me was the caffeine content is way higher than normal dew.
It's true - when Coca Cola acquired Tab, they remarketed Tab as a diet drink. But Diet Coke had an entirely different taste than regular Coke, and they found that a lot of people really liked the taste. Sales of regular Coke were falling hard, while Pepsi was winning, so the company decided to make New Coke based on the taste of Diet Coke, since people really liked the stuff. Of course, we all know how that ended up.
Coke Zero is an attempt to make a diet drink that actually tastes like Coca Cola rather than Diet Coke.
I guess I'll have to try Mt Dew Zero and see if it tastes better than it's diet counterpart. As of now, I still put Orange Vanilla Coke Zero Sugar above all diet sodas, followed closely by Diet Barq's and Diet Squirt. I probably drink far too much diet soda, but it helps with the sweet tooth with me consuming mountains of sugar.
I don't really drink pop much anymore but Coke Zero definitely tastes different than Diet Coke. Diet Coke tastes sort of metallic to me while Coke Zero tastes closer to regular Coke.
I like how Coke Zero variants are the new original versions now.
We had a cinnamon coke variant for christmas and they only came as Zero. Same for cherry and vanilla nowadays. Normal Coke is the only non-zero version still available.
Coke Zero for life. Saves my thirst from dying a mundane watery death.
We had a cinnamon coke variant for christmas and they only came as Zero. Same for cherry and vanilla nowadays. Normal Coke is the only non-zero version still available.
Coke Zero for life. Saves my thirst from dying a mundane watery death.
Zero is meant to taste very close to Classic Coke without the sugar and calories where as Diet Coke is more of it's own thing. It's not meant to taste like regular coke but coke zero is.
Honestly, Diet Mountain Dew already tastes almost the same as regular when cold, so I don't really know what the point is.
Diet Code Red? It's amazing. I'd drink it over any other non-dark diet/zero soda if it was easier to find.
Just tried Dew Zero Sugar last night. First time I ever bought a 12-pack at full price since the store didn't have bottles.
First impressions are positive! The difference is slight but it's there. I think maybe there's some kind of lime/citrus essence coming through, which may add that "bitterness" you're talking about. I actually want to say it adds a bit of balance to the overall flavor.
Happy with it for now.
Also, I prefer the can design. Black>Silver, just like with all the Zero drinks that have a regular diet variety.
Yeah. I'm reminded of Fanta Zero, which I enjoy more than Diet Sunkist or Crush because it doesn't kill me with the aftertaste.
There's a couple differences pointed out, including the "flavoring" mix and there's a blend of two sweeteners instead of the one by itself in Diet Coke.
Yeah, the flavoring mix HAS to be the culprit, on top of the sweeteners. In a blind taste test I could easily pick out the Zero Sugar varieties of Coke and Pepsi over the Diet ones. As much as I like Diet drinks in general, Diet Coke and Pepsi still taste like they did back when I drank sugared soda and couldn't stand sweeteners.
It's no small thing. The formula is different, period.
I just picked up a 20oz of Diet Code Red this morning. I live in Pittsburgh PA fwiw
The most faithful diet is Dr. Pepper, but I agree. I'm not sure Dew Zero is different enough from Diet Dew to justify its existence. Reeks of more man-focused marketing.
And Diet Code Red has been around for almost as long as Code Red, its just rare.
huh
i honestly never noticed, and that's the only pepsi i drink when i do
Nah, they're saving the Max label for the triple sugar/triple caffeine version.