> This is sweetened with sucralose. I have a can in front of me, it is sweetened with Acesulfame Potassium and Aspartame. > In a recent study, fruit flies fed

> This is sweetened with sucralose. I have a can in front of me, it is sweetened with Acesulfame Potassium and Aspartame. > In a recent study, fruit flies fed sucralose consumed more total calories than those fed sugar. I'm not a fruit fly, and everything is a trade off. If this has been widely proven in human trials it'd be one thing. > Fruit juices have vitamins and minerals that soda does not. Vitamins and minerals are available in more than just fruit. > artificially-colored and artificially-flavored The Coke Zero in front of me has no artificial flavors listed, but is "caramel colored", so maybe that's artificial. Artificial doesn't inherently mean "bad for you".