Mountain dew zero sugar vs diet full#

You can really taste the aspartame in this one, and the cola notes, which are expected to be dark and rich, are too bright here. I’ve been given Diet Coke at a fast food drive-thru by mistake before, and it’s enough to make me park my car and go back in to dump it out in place of Coca-Cola. Considering Coca-Cola is my all-time favorite soda, my taste buds have a natural aversion to this flavor profile.

Diet Coke (Taste 11) Dane Riveraĭiet Coke was always going to be a tough one to appreciate for me. If anything it’s made me curious to try the regular version and compare them. Rosalía’s Coca-Cola collaboration is interesting and worth seeking out. It tastes unlike anything I’ve ever had in the soda space. It’s constantly shifting between marshmallows, cotton candy, and coconut. There is no advertised flavor for Move - its main inspiration is transformation, and as ridiculous as it sounds, that is exactly what the flavor does. I’m a huge Rosalía fan (you could call me a Moto Papi) and a big Coke head so I’ve been watching this soda with great interest, it combines two of my favorite things. What’s interesting about this flavor is that it’s brand new, and since I haven’t had the non-sugar-free version of it, I have nothing to compare it to, which makes it truly novel. We’re officially in the tasty territory, as this new flavor of Coca-Cola, made in collaboration with the Grammy award-winning artist Rosalía, is delicious. Coca-Cola Move Zero Sugar (Taste 4) Dane Rivera This leads me to believe that diet soda drinkers have painfully low expectations.Ĩ. It tastes like wood, when I’m trying to drink a soda, I’m not looking for a wood flavor. That means people like this more than the OG flavor!Īnd yet, it’s bad. The weirdest thing is, Virgil’s Cola has been discontinued and all that exists is this zero-sugar version. From what I’ve tasted from the brand, they make some mid-tier root beer and straight-up horrible cola. I’d really like to know what’s keeping Virgil’s in business. Virgil’s Zero Sugar Cola (Taste 2) Dane Rivera My taste buds are geared toward Coca-Cola, I’ve always thought of Pepsi as the lesser soda, but even regular straight Pepsi tastes significantly better than this stuff. 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.

Mountain dew zero sugar vs diet full#

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.