Can anyone tell the difference between Coca Cola Zero and diet Coke?

Question

I tried a free sample and it tates exactly the same ?? Is it some kind of joke or a marketing gimic? Whats meant to be different?

Answer 1

yea the sweetners they packed it with instead of sugar, i'll stick to the good old natural sugar even if my teeth fall out!

Answer 2

Coca Cola Zero - Sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame potassium., the reason this is different than Diet Coke is Coca Cola Zero is a sugar free version of the Classic Coke formulation. In other words, this is meant to be a sugar free version of the red cans of Coke you know and may or may not love. It has a redder, deeper color close to the color of Classic Coke and tastes far less like a diet soda (by many accounts) than Diet Coke.

Diet Coke - Although it came out two years before “New” coke, diet coke that we’ve enjoyed since the 80s is the sugar free form of new coke. In other words, it’s based on the formula for the “New Coke” that wasn’t released yet (it debuted in 1985) when Diet Coke hit the market (1983), and is also now no longer available. (the New coke). Coca Cola has no plans at this time to discontinue the aspartame based Diet Coke, as it is third in the soda market. (After Coke and Pepsi, respectively.)

Answer 3

When I tried Coke Zero it reminded me of classic Coca Cola. Not at all like the taste of diet Coke.

Answer 4

I could tell the difference, I can tell the difference between diet coke and the caffeine free version too, I prefer the caffeine free version & to be honest I hate the zero version it tasted like a cheap non brand diet coke.
I was really disappointed with the diet cherry coke too I wish it was the same cherry as in sugar cherry coke but they had to ruin it and use black cherry instead

Answer 5

I tried a can of the stuff the other day and I must admit on single tasting, it did remind me of normal Coke, and it didn't have a nasty sweetner "bite". Then the wife went and bought a bottle of the stuff and I thought - Diet Coke! Complete with the sickening aspartame taste.


SALES GIMMICK!

Answer 6

I could tell a difference - I really didn't like Coca Cola Zero

Answer 7

They both taste rubbish to me, as does any other type of diet soda. Personally I would not touch the stuff with a barge pole.

Some recent research has actually suggested that the regular, sugary stuff is actually better for you if taken in moderation. This is because the diet stuff contains aspartame and sorbitol which are now thought to be carcinogenic.

Answer 8

coca cola is normal cola drink,zero is diet sprite that taste like lime
and diet coke is coke but diet (of corse) an taste a bit more sweter than coke

Answer 9

yes i do but i think coca cola zero is gross and its a rip off beacuse if you check the back of the warrping and compare it to diet coke it has the exact same sweetners in it

Answer 10

Yes - Coke Zero tastes like Pepsi. In fact, it tastes remarkably like 80s throwback Pepsi Free, which died. Horrifically.

Answer 11

I asked the same thing, coke zero taste like proper coke, diet tastes like diet