SilentAssassin1642
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its the caffeine in it, and the calories. I believe theres bugger all caffeine in coke zero as well as colories. Not that theres any calories in diet coke at all anyway
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its the caffeine in it, and the calories. I believe theres bugger all caffeine in coke zero as well as colories. Not that theres any calories in diet coke at all anyway
Steff
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i must agree i bought a bottle for first time and by god it was awful i left it for o/h and he even turned his nose up so it must of been bad
sofaraway
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I agree too, I can drink coke zero if forced but love diet coke
there is actually 0.5 calories per 100ml in diet coke. i have a feeling there is even less in coke zero though. There is just as much caffeine in coke zero as original coke.
haha totally agree with you there.
The actual difference is apparently:
The originial Diet Coke is sweetened with Aspartame (nutrasweet). Coke Zero is sweetened with a blend of aspartame and acesulfame potassium. Coca-Cola's position is that the Coke Zero is supposed to taste more like the original Coke, but without calories or sugar.
(umm, it tastes less like real coke!)
Cheers Katie, someone said to me they were the same but coke zero was for blokes as studies showed they don't drink diet coke?
i think that was their plan. Because it says 'Diet' on the tin some guys think it make them look like they are watching their weight and that's 'girlie' lol.
Copepod
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low carb sports drinks
Lucozade Sport make a powder called Hydro Active Fast Hydration (low calorie hydration powder) 1 sachet contains 14g powder, and when made up with 500ml of water, contains (all values per 100ml made up as directed): protein trace, carbohydrate 1.4g (of which sugars 0.2g) (= 7g CHO, of which 1g sugars in 500ml), fat nil, fibre nil, sodium trace, niacin 0.61g etc (I'm not going to type out all vitamins and minerals). Ingredients Maltodextrin, Citric Acid, Acidity Regulators (Sodium Citrate, Calcium Carbonate), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame), Flavouring, Vitamins (Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, 86.912).
http://www.lucozade.com/sport/products/hydration/ has more information. I don't work for Lucozade, but did recently win a running sports pack of Lucozade products, which is why I looked carefully at the nutritional information on this product, and will be using it.
Lucozade Sport make a powder called Hydro Active Fast Hydration (low calorie hydration powder) 1 sachet contains 14g powder, and when made up with 500ml of water, contains (all values per 100ml made up as directed): protein trace, carbohydrate 1.4g (of which sugars 0.2g) (= 7g CHO, of which 1g sugars in 500ml), fat nil, fibre nil, sodium trace, niacin 0.61g etc (I'm not going to type out all vitamins and minerals). Ingredients Maltodextrin, Citric Acid, Acidity Regulators (Sodium Citrate, Calcium Carbonate), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame), Flavouring, Vitamins (Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, 86.912).
http://www.lucozade.com/sport/products/hydration/ has more information. I don't work for Lucozade, but did recently win a running sports pack of Lucozade products, which is why I looked carefully at the nutritional information on this product, and will be using it.
I love diet coke, I hate coke zero. Tastes full of sugar yuk. Hate when people buy it in thinking they are doing me a good deed. One reletive said to me I got you this as it tasted just like the real stuff. I've been diabetic most my life so i've never drank normal coke, unless people serve me the wrong drink. Happens all the time.
Northerner
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This debate about Coke is quite strange to me. I never really drank it before diagnosis, but after diagnosis they had a special offer on and I got 12 cans for the price of 6. This was in June 2008 - I still have 5 cans left! But I really wouldn't be able to tell the difference between all the various manifestations!
eek i cant do spirits straight up.
diet coke and zero are sooo different, you should taste one after the other
coke zero tastes exactly like diet pepsi i think.
Adrienne
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Hi
There are loads of diet fizzy stuff around if this is what you want. Diet Orangina, diet lemonade, diet ginger beer !!!, supermarkets do their own brands and flavours of diet fizz.
There is also the diet squashes (yuk but you might like them) Toothkind Ribena etc.
Re lucozade. As an idea of how quick it works I can't use it on Jessica as it works too quickly. Jessica has 2% of her pancreas left and the reason it was removed was because it produced a constant flow of insulin and the medication didn't work. However her 2% hasn't totally burned out yet (which is not good, as it is still bad!) and it produces insulin when it feels like it but mainly when treating a hypo. We found that if we gave lucozade it shoots up the levels very quickly and out comes the insulin from the bad pancreas. However with coke, even though it is great for hypos and does shoot levels up it is not as fast as lucozade and sometimes the insulin doesn't come out.
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