![]() Pepsi apparently took out all the fizz along with the sugar, as this soda was completely flat. Pepsi Zero Sugar (Taste 5) Dane RiveraĬoming in just a hair higher than Mountain Dew Diet is Pepsi Zero Sugar, Pepsi Brand’s answer to Coca-Cola Zero. ![]() Because diet soda leaves a weird chemical stain on the palate, I drank lemon water between each new serving. ![]() I had each bottle/can of diet soda poured for me out of sight and brought to me at random. Coca-Cola Move Zero Sugar (limited time Rosalía flavor).If you want to find the best flavored sparkling water, hit up our flavored sparkling water taste test. So in order to narrow our scope a bit, we decided to eliminate drinks that are solely designed to be sugar-free - La Croix, Zevia, and similar fruit-flavored “sparkling waters.” To make it on this list, the soda has to be a sugar-free version of a full-sugar soda. In the past, we’ve blind taste-tested colas, cherry colas, fruit sodas, and root beer, and despite there being a lot of variety out there it doesn’t quite match the insane amount of sugar-free sodas out there. Which got me thinking - what if I didn’t know I was drinking the sugar-free version of my favorite soda? Is there a diet soda out there that tastes good enough to fool me? I set out to find out by blind test-testing all the diet sodas I could in search of the most delicious (and the one that could best match its own full sugar version). People do like this stuff, that’s undeniable… even if I don’t get it. A few oddballs have even written articles about it, and clearly, the industry is healthy ( as in sales, not actually healthy) because diet soda is everywhere - from fast food fountains to convenience store shelves. Aspartame is now preferable to these weirdos over real sugar. But over the years, some people (a lot, in fact) have convinced themselves to like these flavors better. That’s sure to be a far more satisfying experience. You want half the calories of Coke? Drink half a coke. There are plenty of sugar-free non sweetened beverages out there that taste delicious, and yet people choose to drink something that tastes like a cheap substitute just so they can drink more of it? That’s odd, right? An example of half-assed maximalism. But diet sodas taste, well, how can I put this nicely? F*cking weird. Don’t get me wrong, wanting to avoid the high sugar and high-calorie content of regular soda in favor of something that’s healthier - I get that.
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