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Enough people already have told you that you are clearly wrong, but I'm just curious at how did you arrive at such conclusion. Could you please tell honestly, i

by krick 5y ago

Enough people already have told you that you are clearly wrong, but I'm just curious at how did you arrive at such conclusion. Could you please tell honestly, if you actually did try both and you really cannot tell the difference, or is it something you've just said offhandedly? (By the way, I know quite a few people who, according to their words, actually prefer the taste of Coca-Cola Zero. I personally cannot say that I like one more than the other, even though the taste is obviously different. So I'm surprised by how it is almost unanimously assumed in this thread to be bad-tasting.)

meowface 5y ago
>So I'm surprised by how it is almost unanimously assumed to be bad-tasting. I'm one of the people who finds Diet Coke and Coke Zero terrible-tasting. Do you enjoy the taste of any other artificially sweetened drinks, out of curiosity? I wonder if some people just have a trait that makes any non-sugar sweeteners taste awful to them. Aspartame, stevia, monk fruit, and sucralose all taste truly gross to me. Like, gross in a weird, chemical-y way nothing else I've ever tasted does. Very distinctly, particularly, and strangely gross. All real sugars taste great to me, though. If it weren't so unhealthy, I'd probably consume lots of sugary foods almost every day.
- noselasd 5y ago
  It's likely more fine grained than artificial sweeteners. Diet coke, which I'm not sure I can get around here anymore, tastes really awful to me. Regular Coke vs Coke Zero I don't have any taster preferences between them. Pepsi Max is what I drink mostly, and the regular Pepsi now tastes too sweet and weird to me.
- krick 5y ago
  > Do you enjoy the taste of any other artificially sweetened drinks, out of curiosity? Well, first off, I don't like Coca-Cola that much for that matter (which I assume you mean by "Coke"). I just find both Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero perfectly drinkable and occasionally I feel like drinking one or the other. I never really drink "Diet Coke", since while "Coke" and "Coke Zero" are just 2 clearly distinct drinks, "Diet Coke" is something weirdly in between. Not gross, but meaningless and less enjoyable than any of them. That being said, Coca-Cola is one of the least interesting and most bland colas out there. I would prefer "Fever-Tree's Cola", or "Jarritos Mexican Cola" or half a dozen of another colas over the one you probably mean by "Coke". So it's kinda silly to me to compare another drink (Coca-Cola Zero) to it as if it was some Holy-Grail of colas. It's just a mediocre drink, not amazing, not disgusting. And so is Coca-Cola Zero. I cannot right now remember vividly enough the tastes of other drinks that might have been artificially sweetened, so I cannot answer your question directly. I don't like the taste of aspartame on its own, I don't use it at home, but I don't remember which off-the-shelf drinks contain it. Sucralose is better, protein powders are often sweetened by it, but it all depends on how much of it do they contain. I specifically checked right now 2 brands of which I remember one being horribly sweet, and the other quite nice: both have just sucralose as a sweetener, but they taste vastly different. On the other hand, Nocco drinks also are sucralose, they aren't too sweet, but I don't find them very pleasant to drink. I cannot remember how stevia tastes (I guess I must have tasted it, but I cannot remember when or where), and it's possibly the first time I hear of "monk fruit". I'll try them out, I guess. So, TL;DR: the particular sweetener doesn't define the taste of the whole drink, it really depends if I will like it or not.
  - meowface 5y ago
    >So, TL;DR: the particular sweetener doesn't define the taste of the whole drink, it really depends if I will like it or not. To me, artificial sweeteners instantly overpower the taste of anything I drink. I'm not a big fan of (regular) Coca-Cola, either, but no matter the drink, artificial sweeteners just ruin the whole experience. Compared to anything with an artificial sweetener, Coca-Cola might as well be the best thing ever.
brimble 5y ago
> So I'm surprised by how it is almost unanimously assumed in this thread to be bad-tasting. It's all the after taste, for me. If I sip a diet soda, there's about one full second when I can't tell the difference—then I really can, and the unpleasant-to-me flavor lingers, quite strong, for minutes. Tastes like... I dunno, like I chewed up and swallowed a mild licorice with a thin coating of something that's definitely not food. Maybe some kind of plastic or household cleaning product.

by krick 5y ago

meowface 5y ago

>So I'm surprised by how it is almost unanimously assumed to be bad-tasting. I'm one of the people who finds Diet Coke and Coke Zero terrible-tasting. Do you enjoy the taste of any other artificially sweetened drinks, out of curiosity? I wonder if some people just have a trait that makes any non-sugar sweeteners taste awful to them. Aspartame, stevia, monk fruit, and sucralose all taste truly gross to me. Like, gross in a weird, chemical-y way nothing else I've ever tasted does. Very distinctly, particularly, and strangely gross. All real sugars taste great to me, though. If it weren't so unhealthy, I'd probably consume lots of sugary foods almost every day.

noselasd 5y ago
It's likely more fine grained than artificial sweeteners. Diet coke, which I'm not sure I can get around here anymore, tastes really awful to me. Regular Coke vs Coke Zero I don't have any taster preferences between them. Pepsi Max is what I drink mostly, and the regular Pepsi now tastes too sweet and weird to me.
krick 5y ago
> Do you enjoy the taste of any other artificially sweetened drinks, out of curiosity? Well, first off, I don't like Coca-Cola that much for that matter (which I assume you mean by "Coke"). I just find both Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero perfectly drinkable and occasionally I feel like drinking one or the other. I never really drink "Diet Coke", since while "Coke" and "Coke Zero" are just 2 clearly distinct drinks, "Diet Coke" is something weirdly in between. Not gross, but meaningless and less enjoyable than any of them. That being said, Coca-Cola is one of the least interesting and most bland colas out there. I would prefer "Fever-Tree's Cola", or "Jarritos Mexican Cola" or half a dozen of another colas over the one you probably mean by "Coke". So it's kinda silly to me to compare another drink (Coca-Cola Zero) to it as if it was some Holy-Grail of colas. It's just a mediocre drink, not amazing, not disgusting. And so is Coca-Cola Zero. I cannot right now remember vividly enough the tastes of other drinks that might have been artificially sweetened, so I cannot answer your question directly. I don't like the taste of aspartame on its own, I don't use it at home, but I don't remember which off-the-shelf drinks contain it. Sucralose is better, protein powders are often sweetened by it, but it all depends on how much of it do they contain. I specifically checked right now 2 brands of which I remember one being horribly sweet, and the other quite nice: both have just sucralose as a sweetener, but they taste vastly different. On the other hand, Nocco drinks also are sucralose, they aren't too sweet, but I don't find them very pleasant to drink. I cannot remember how stevia tastes (I guess I must have tasted it, but I cannot remember when or where), and it's possibly the first time I hear of "monk fruit". I'll try them out, I guess. So, TL;DR: the particular sweetener doesn't define the taste of the whole drink, it really depends if I will like it or not.
- meowface 5y ago
  >So, TL;DR: the particular sweetener doesn't define the taste of the whole drink, it really depends if I will like it or not. To me, artificial sweeteners instantly overpower the taste of anything I drink. I'm not a big fan of (regular) Coca-Cola, either, but no matter the drink, artificial sweeteners just ruin the whole experience. Compared to anything with an artificial sweetener, Coca-Cola might as well be the best thing ever.

brimble 5y ago

> So I'm surprised by how it is almost unanimously assumed in this thread to be bad-tasting. It's all the after taste, for me. If I sip a diet soda, there's about one full second when I can't tell the difference—then I really can, and the unpleasant-to-me flavor lingers, quite strong, for minutes. Tastes like... I dunno, like I chewed up and swallowed a mild licorice with a thin coating of something that's definitely not food. Maybe some kind of plastic or household cleaning product.