Sugar-free soft drinks

Balanadan · 27-08-2019 10:26am #1

What a load of bollocks. They taste ****e, and you'd be thirstier after drinking them than you were before.

0/10

JohnnyFlash · 27-08-2019 10:28am

I’ve found Club Rock Shandy to be by far the best of the sugar free drinks. And that’s damning with faint praise.

Qelres. · 27-08-2019 10:32am

You have to check carefully if u want the sugared drink, it can be hard to tell the difference

Shelves are stacked with the zero drinks

Duane Dibbley · 27-08-2019 10:36am

Coca Cola's Zero range is far better than their normal equivalent

Deebles McBeebles · 27-08-2019 10:37am

Balanadan wrote: »

What a load of bollocks. They taste ****e, and you'd be thirstier after drinking them than you were before.

0/10

They do taste like sh*te plus I'd be worried about whats replacing the sugar.

kingstevii · 27-08-2019 10:37am

Duane Dibbley wrote: »

Coca Cola's Zero range is far better than their normal equivalent

No its not.

champchamp · 27-08-2019 10:39am

Pepsi max is lovely.

JohnnyFlash · 27-08-2019 10:39am

Duane Dibbley wrote: »

Coca Cola's Zero range is far better than their normal equivalent

You on the beer already, Duane?

27-08-2019 10:40am

Always preferred them, sugar ones are too cloying

Duane Dibbley · 27-08-2019 10:41am

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You on the beer already, Duane?

I find the Normal ones very sticky to the teeth compared to the Zero option.

odyssey06 · 27-08-2019 10:45am

Coke zero and Pepsi Max are ok, diet Coke was never nice...

Stevia as a substitute is good.

Tammy! · 27-08-2019 10:51am

Most of them are muck but I prefer diet 7up or 7up free to the regular.

I don't know how anyone could like diet coke.

Captain Flaps · 27-08-2019 10:58am

7up Free is delicious and now my soft drink of choice, as are Coke Zero, Pepsi Max and ALL of the Club options. A couple of times a year I'm stuck with a full sugar drink and it just makes me feel sick afterwards.

Sprite zero is muck though.

Tammy! · 27-08-2019 11:01am

Captain Flaps wrote: »

Sprite zero is muck though.

Tastes like fizzy water!

Can't remember where it was but I was eating out somewhere and I said 'how come the coke always tastes nicer here?' and my friend said 'that's because it's Pepsi.'

Badly Drunk Boy · 27-08-2019 11:07am

I heard a story at the weekend about a child who saved his diabetic grandmother with a can of Fanta when she her blood sugar crashed. If companies keep reducing the amount of sugar in sort drinks, this valuable medicine will be lost to us!

If something is clearly marked sugar-free, fair enough, but when they reduce the sugar by stealth to avoid sugar taxes (I'm looking at you, San Pellegrino!), that's just not on. We don't like your new recipe!

Esse85 · 27-08-2019 11:10am

Sugar free lucozades are rotten.

Qelres. · 27-08-2019 11:11am

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I heard a story at the weekend about a child who saved his diabetic grandmother with a can of Fanta when she her blood sugar crashed. If companies keep reducing the amount of sugar in sort drinks, this valuable medicine will be lost to us!

If something is clearly marked sugar-free, fair enough, but when they reduce the sugar by stealth to avoid sugar taxes (I'm looking at you, San Pellegrino!), that's just not on. We don't like your new recipe!

Is that why the labelling is obscure?

I was continuously buying the zero drinks by mistake

When i put my glasses on I observed there was hardly any sugared drinks on the shelf

Zaph · 27-08-2019 11:20am

As a diabetic I'm delighted with the choice of sugar free drinks that are now available. But I will say that they need to sort Sprite out, it's terrible stuff.

Beanntraigheach · 27-08-2019 12:00pm

Zaph wrote: »

As a diabetic I'm delighted with the choice of sugar free drinks that are now available. But I will say that they need to sort Sprite out, it's terrible stuff.

I don't think anyone would object to sugar-free options being more widely available. It's the fact that they've replaced the original sugar versions that pisses people off.

The sugar-free ones are repellent to me, I can taste the artificial sweetener instantly and just can't tolerate it.

Captain Flaps · 27-08-2019 12:10pm

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

I don't think anyone would object to sugar-free options being more widely available. It's the fact that they've replaced the original sugar versions that pisses people off.

The sugar-free ones are repellent to me, I can taste the artificial sweetener instantly and just can't tolerate it.

Genuinely can't think of anything other than Sprite that's not AT LEAST as available as the full sugar version, or anywhere that only offers sugar free.

suicide_circus · 27-08-2019 12:18pm

Captain Flaps wrote: »

Genuinely can't think of anything other than Sprite that's not AT LEAST as available as the full sugar version, or anywhere that only offers sugar free.

the only normal soft drinks available now which are made with sugar only rather than "sugar and sweeteners" are regular coke and club orange. Everything else contains artificial sweeteners including the likes of Miwadi/Ribena. I can taste aspartame in anything, i must be sensitive to it or something so soft drinks are essentially dead to me now. I suppose the tax did its job!

suicide_circus · 27-08-2019 12:20pm

it was obviously an industry decision to reduce sugar accross the board rather than offering full sugar options at a higher price so i cant blame the gubberment on that one

odyssey06 · 27-08-2019 12:22pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

the only normal soft drinks available now which are made with sugar only rather than "sugar and sweeteners" are regular coke and club orange. Everything else contains artificial sweeteners including the likes of Miwadi/Ribena. I can taste aspartame in anything, i must be sensitive to it or something so soft drinks are essentially dead to me now. I suppose the tax did its job!

One exception is 7up, they reduced sugar content and replaced it with Stevia, which is a natural sweetener - and I haven't noticed much difference in taste.
Oceanspray Cranberry juice also has Stevia.

Sprite is vile now...

suicide_circus · 27-08-2019 12:25pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

One exception is 7up, they reduced sugar content and replaced it with Stevia, which is a natural sweetener - and I haven't noticed much difference in taste.
Oceanspray Cranberry juice also has Stevia.

Sprite is vile now...

good to know. what ever happened to Coca Cola Life (green packaging)? that was on the shelves a few years back and i believe it contained stevia...

odyssey06 · 27-08-2019 12:27pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

good to know. what ever happened to Coca Cola Life (green packaging)? that was on the shelves a few years back and i believe it contained stevia...

Didn't seem to find a customer base unfortunately, they probably jumped the gun in terms of pre sugar tax...
https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2017/04/07/Coca-Cola-Life-axed-in-the-UK

Beanntraigheach · 27-08-2019 12:32pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

One exception is 7up, they reduced sugar content and replaced it with Stevia, which is a natural sweetener - and I haven't noticed much difference in taste.
Oceanspray Cranberry juice also has Stevia.

Sprite is vile now...

I notice it, can't stand it.
There was nothing like a cold 7UP on a hot day

jmayo · 27-08-2019 12:36pm

Sometimes I think that all the other companies hired the tasters and developers from Kelkin because the new tastes are so shyte they can only be developed by people with no fooking taste buds. :mad:

Prince Andrew · 27-08-2019 12:46pm

During the summer months in between bouts of wild vigorous sex with my many young nubile concubines I quite enjoy the refreshing replenishment of cold long freshly squeezed lemonade.

My butler has an exquisite recipe with which he is never very forthcoming. But I am a sneaky little chap, I learnt how to creep around the house when playing hide and seek with my cousins when I was a young whippersnapper.

One afternoon I secretly followed him down to the kitchen to see what he was up to. The cheeky bugger was adding honey of all things to his secret recipe. Oranges, lemons, limes, honey and carbonated water. I think I might bell him now to arrange one before lunch.

Tally ho.

Boom_Bap · 27-08-2019 1:00pm

Rock Shandy Zero is a f*cking disgrace.

Conor Bourke · 27-08-2019 1:07pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

One exception is 7up, they reduced sugar content and replaced it with Stevia, which is a natural sweetener - and I haven't noticed much difference in taste.

I was in hospital this time last year, a visitor brought me a bottle of regular 7up and I was delighted: haven’t had a nice cold glass of 7up in years but thought it was exactly what I wanted to freshen my tastebuds after a week of not eating.. I was sorely mistaken. It didn’t taste anything like I remembered, it was absolutely septic!

I thought I’d try it again a few months after, in case being sick or the medication had altered my taste but no, still manky. What a disappointment.

Bob the Seducer · 27-08-2019 1:12pm

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

They do taste like sh*te plus I'd be worried about whats replacing the sugar.

Ah, think of the positives. By drinking them now we're getting in on the ground floor for a future class action lawsuit when the truth comes out!

elfy4eva · 27-08-2019 1:18pm

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

They do taste like sh*te plus I'd be worried about whats replacing the sugar.

Aspartame, Saccharin and Stevia usually all well approved outside of conspiracy theories.

Feisar · 27-08-2019 1:23pm

Esse85 wrote: »

Sugar free lucozades are rotten.

Also, marketed as a zero calorie energy drink? Calories = energy, so no cals no energy!

wiggle16 · 27-08-2019 1:25pm

I drink an unholy amount of pepsi max. I wouldn't like to see what i'd be like if I was drinking a sugary drink instead.

odyssey06 · 27-08-2019 1:34pm

Cornelius Crow wrote: »

I was in hospital this time last year, a visitor brought me a bottle of regular 7up and I was delighted: haven’t had a nice cold glass of 7up in years but thought it was exactly what I wanted to freshen my tastebuds after a week of not eating.. I was sorely mistaken. It didn’t taste anything like I remembered, it was absolutely septic!
I thought I’d try it again a few months after, in case being sick or the medication had altered my taste but no, still manky. What a disappointment.

Ok wow... I don't get that from the Stevia replacements but looks like I might be in a minority.

The Tetrarch · 27-08-2019 2:07pm

elfy4eva wrote: »

Aspartame, Saccharin and Stevia usually all well approved outside of conspiracy theories.

I think if you drink 1,500 Diet Cokes a day you exceed the Food and Drug Administration Aspartame safe level so Diet Coke is not safe.

Boom_Bap · 27-08-2019 2:08pm

The Tetrarch wrote: »

I think if you drink 1,500 Diet Cokes a day you exceed the Food and Drug Administration Aspartame safe level so Diet Coke is not safe.

It's 1501.

The Tetrarch · 27-08-2019 2:09pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

It's 1501.

You are correct. 1,500 are safe, but it is the 1,501 that kills you. :rolleyes:

27-08-2019 8:51pm

They are all disgusting unsatisfying crap and the pricks who were willing to posion generations of children with litres of dilute sugar-syrup are now clamouring to discontinue their production and supply of these sugary drinks for the sole reason that their marketing tells them it is a good idea. Lucozade didn't care that diabetics had grown to depend on their 70 calories per 100ml formulation, and they cut the sugar content so that it is now now 37 calories (what i dont get is why they added sweeteners to this - like there would still be plenty of sweetness without them). It's so typical that since everything about life basically got sh'it around 2008, the culture shifted so that people stopped drinking full sugar fizzy drinks and became joyless health and (especially) image conscious pricks who make everyone else feel ashamed for being overweight or drinking lots of full sugar drinks. Give it a few years and the culture will have reached the stage that it will feel barbaric to drink full sugar drinks. Another good thing in life gone forever .. just like privacy, children getting to be children, a degree being worth something, losing awareness of classmates once you left school, movies and music being something you looked forward to, having children being something that was economically feasible .....

suicide_circus · 27-08-2019 8:54pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Rock Shandy Zero is a f*cking disgrace.

man tells it like it is

27-08-2019 8:56pm

For anyone like me who hates these drinks, the best solution is to just drink water or sparkling water the vast majority of the time, with an occasional can of coke or club orange. Hit the companies where it hurts and never buy any of their disgusting sugar-free drinks. Punish them for removing peoples' choice and for making the world that bit more sterile.

Gregor Samsa · 27-08-2019 9:04pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

For anyone like me who hates these drinks, the best solution is to just drink water or sparkling water the vast majority of the time

Pffff... Water’s for fish. I’ve a much better idea.

Buy your soft drinks in a shop that has a self service coffee counter. Get the sugar free can, stealthily avoiding the punitive sugar tax. Then on the way out, grab 10 sachets of sugar and lash them into the can. You’ll get your sugary treat, and you won’t be lining the pockets of the fat cats in Washington.

27-08-2019 9:08pm

phutyle wrote: »

Pffff... I’ve a much better idea.

Buy your soft drinks in a shop that has a self service coffee counter. Get the sugar free can, stealthily avoiding the punitive sugar tax. Then on the way out, grab 10 sachets of sugar and lash them into the can. You’ll get your sugary treat, and you won’t be lining the pockets of the fat cats in Washington.

NO. I have to not SEE the sugar being added to the drink during it's manufacture, otherwise I won't enjoy it. But you know that! The pleasure experienced from drinking a full sugar fizzy drink depends upon society having normalised to some extent the drinking of such large amounts of sugar in small volumes, so that you can drink something so unnaturally sweet and therefore pleasurable while thoughts about how unhealthy it is remain something theoretical. After all, people drink them all the time! If only a few percent of people were willing to drink them then you would feel conscious of how unhealthy they are for you (and therefore what an unhealthy person you are) and they wouldnt be enjoyable to drink. Similarly, many people who would eat a bowl of frosties would not eat a bowl of corn flakes after somebody put 10 (or whatever) sachets of sugar on them! Irrational, yes. but necessary to be able to enjoy it.

Montage of Feck · 27-08-2019 10:37pm

Esse85 wrote: »

Sugar free lucozades are rotten.

A drink that was specificaly created as a source of glucose, a sugar free version kind of defeats that purpose.

Atlantic Dawn · 27-08-2019 10:41pm

Pepsi is the same as your parents buying you a pair of St Bernard Strider runners instead of Adidas.

ILoveYourVibes · 27-08-2019 10:47pm

elfy4eva wrote: »

Aspartame, Saccharin and Stevia usually all well approved outside of conspiracy theories.

Saccharin is linked to certain types of cancer in rats. It was at one time on a list of carcinogens for humans but there was huge money put into taking it off.

We are probably better without it.

suicide_circus · 27-08-2019 10:48pm

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Saccharin is linked to certain types of cancer in rats.

hammers can cause death in 100% of rats

Say Your Number · 27-08-2019 10:53pm

I remember seeing a pink bottle of Lucozade on sale for a Euro a while ago, ended up having two mouthfuls and then threw the rest down the sink, the vilest thing I've ever tasted.

branie2 · 27-08-2019 10:54pm

Coke Zero is good

Sugar-free soft drinks

Comments