Diet coke has 0 calories, really?

[Red Squirrel]

I normally get a root beer at work when getting a pop as it's most likely healthier then coke and not as hard on the teeth, but today when I got mine it gave me a diet coke instead, so I drinked it anyway. I was curious and checked the label. 0 calories. Really?! How is that possible? Is it just colored water? lol.

 

[TheUnk]

Don't all diet sodas have 0 calories?

 

[Kromis]

The magic of Splenda!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Don't all diet sodas have 0 calories?

Could be, I normally don't drink diet, so it was my first time noticing. Seems odd. Figured the only thing that could have 0 is water.

 

[MJinZ]

WTF? Did you wake up from a 20 year old coma?

 

[SociallyChallenged]

The magic of Splenda!

Not typically. Diet coke, along with most other diet sodas, still uses aspartame.

 

[KlokWyze]

WTF? Did you wake up from a 20 year old coma?

:thumbsup_O

 

[Mike Gayner]

It doesn't have zero calories, but close enough to zero that the difference is negligible. It is sweetened with a protein which is 200x sweeter than sugar, therefore you only need 1/200th of the amount of sugar you would use.

 

[alkemyst]

zero calories, but it causes me and some others I know to bloat looking like they have gained 10lbs or more.

 

[Gillbot]

0 Calories != absolute zero

 

[Atty]

zero calories, but it causes me and some others I know to bloat looking like they have gained 10lbs or more.

Truth.

I was drinking Coke Zero or Diet Mt. Dew pretty regularly for a few months when I went on a Cruise where it cost way too much to have a coke so all I had was water and un-sweet tea (sometimes with zero-cal sweeteners in it). The odd beer/mix drink too.

Came back home after the week and every mentioned how much "thinner" I looked, simply from cutting out the coke I looked slimmer.

 

[Gillbot]

In the context of nutrition, and especially food labelling, a larger unit is used and referred to interchangeably by the terms calorie (or Calorie) and kilocalorie.

calorie != Calorie

 

[QuantumPion]

It does have some calories but because it is below some certain threshold (10?) per serving they are allowed to call it 0. That's why a 20 oz bottle of cola says it contains 2.5 servings, if it was only 1 serving then they couldn't claim it had 0 calories.

 

[kalrith]

Diet Coke contains...0.41 calories per 100ml

Source

 

[gramboh]

I normally get a root beer at work when getting a pop as it's most likely healthier then coke and not as hard on the teeth,

Wrong, sorry, but typically all pop has the same sugar content, about 40g per 355ml can which is ridiculous when you think about it. The damage to your teeth is caused by exposure to sugar, so it's no better. My friend who is a dentist has told me that exposure time is a big factor for dental health, so sipping a pop over an hour might be worse than slamming it back. Haven't researched it but it makes sense. I cut pop out of my life completey, other than mixing it with alcohol a few times a year (usually try to just stick to vodka+water). I find it disgusting now that I rarely have it (although once a in a while an ice cold can of coke is appealing).

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Wrong, sorry, but typically all pop has the same sugar content, about 40g per 355ml can which is ridiculous when you think about it. The damage to your teeth is caused by exposure to sugar, so it's no better. My friend who is a dentist has told me that exposure time is a big factor for dental health, so sipping a pop over an hour might be worse than slamming it back. Haven't researched it but it makes sense. I cut pop out of my life completey, other than mixing it with alcohol a few times a year (usually try to just stick to vodka+water). I find it disgusting now that I rarely have it (although once a in a while an ice cold can of coke is appealing).

Actually, damage to teeth is more from the phosphoric acid in sodas. In that regard, all sodas are quite bad for you.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wrong, sorry, but typically all pop has the same sugar content, about 40g per 355ml can which is ridiculous when you think about it. The damage to your teeth is caused by exposure to sugar, so it's no better. My friend who is a dentist has told me that exposure time is a big factor for dental health, so sipping a pop over an hour might be worse than slamming it back. Haven't researched it but it makes sense. I cut pop out of my life completey, other than mixing it with alcohol a few times a year (usually try to just stick to vodka+water). I find it disgusting now that I rarely have it (although once a in a while an ice cold can of coke is appealing).

It's still better then coke though. But yeah they're all bad for the teeth, and bad for the health. I just try to choose the lesser of evils if I can. I think the worse one is coke, then pepsi. Root beer is like in the middle. I can't remember what's even less bad.

So the number of calories is just very small per unit they use so they put 0, I guess it's just a sneaky tactic. Still though, that's low! That means if I drinked just that, I'd have to drink by the shipping crate before even gaining weight, just seems kinda odd. I suppose the other health effects of doing that would be extremely bad though!

 

[mchammer187]

Yes it does have effectively negligible calories but wasn't there a post here that stated it messes your insulin levels so it often makes you hungrier than just drinking water would?

 

[alkemyst]

Actually, damage to teeth is more from the phosphoric acid in sodas. In that regard, all sodas are quite bad for you.

from personal experience I think it's all just bad, perhaps shit poor genetics.

since about 4 I had been drinking a ton of soda until 15-16 when I switched to diet coke since I lost taste for sweets.

Once I reached 22-23, I had been drinking a 12 pack a day or so....

I am 38. At 22 ish they removed my wisdom teeth, two had cavities that were impossible to reach by most brushes. I may now need to have a 'soft' spot covered on my next visit.

That said I haven't had more than a half dozen sodas in the last 2 months.

 

[Rudee]

WTF? Did you wake up from a 20 year old coma?

Agreed. The OP is obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed.

 

[alkemyst]

Agreed. The OP is obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed.

yeah he probably thinks each time he posts he gets to post a 'vag' with his avatar.

 

[Tsavo]

Agreed. The OP is obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Sledgehammers aren't sharp, but they are very useful for their intended purpose.

 

[KlokWyze]

Confucius say: Sledgehammers aren't sharp, but they are very useful for their intended purpose.

:hmm:

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

There are things in this world besides water your body can't digest into usable energy?! Blasphemy! You sir are a liar and a scoundrel.