WHY CANT THE SODA COMPANIES MAKE DiET SODA TASTE JUST AS GOOD AS REGULAR SODA?

Question

I hate the taste of diet soda. It has no calories or carbs. Coca-cola and many other soda companies make a diet version of the regular kind. To me the regular kind taste good. But the diet soda taste terrible! Why cant they make diet soda with no calories taste exactly the same as regular soda?

Answer 1

Because that disgusting taste is from artificial sweeteners.

That's the only way they could make it diet.

Fake sugar.

Answer 2

trust me, you cannot tell the difference in diet dr. pepper. i've had it by accident, & i HATE taste of diet soda...until i actually saw the bottle,  would have never known.

TRY IT< I SWEAR

Answer 3

well its obviously different. there's a price to no calories/carbs. but coke zero tastes very similar to the regular one

Answer 4

i beg to differ about the diet dr. pepper. All i drink is Dr. pepper and now that i'm dieting a bit i've tried to change, it still has that diet after taste. SO don't try it. THe only thing i've drank that i kind of like diet is Sprite.

Answer 5

I can taste the difference in both diet dr. pepper and coke zero.  The fake sugar leaves such a bad aftertaste it sometimes makes me throw up.

i have often wondered this as well, but i guess until scientists come up with a better artificial sweetener, or find out how to take the calories out of regular sugar, we just have to either drink the calories or find a way around the taste.

I would just like to add that the artificial sweeteners may be very dangerous to our health.  We are just starting to see the long term effects of some of the first ones invented, but things like Splenda are new, and we won't truely know if they are safe for many many years.

Answer 6

to make a soda diet, you must take out evry ingredien tthat has any amount of calories in it. then they must take something that will imitate the original flavor and add it instead. so no matter how hard they try, diet soda will always taste a bit different.

Answer 7

because it is made with different ingredients.

Answer 8

BECAUSE SUGAR TASTES BETTER THAN ARTiFICiAL SWEETENERS ALSO CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

Answer 9

Um, that might be because there's no sugar in diet.

Answer 10

Chemical sweeteners, no matter how sweet tasting, also taste like chemicals. The chemicals are bad for the body because they have to be eliminated before they become toxic.

Answer 11

they do..coke zero

Answer 12

Tell you what, if you think it's so simple, you develop an artificial sweetener with no calories, no after taste but that still tastes like sugar. They've spent millions trying to make one, and still haven't pulled it off.

So, good luck to you.

Answer 13

coke zero is pretty good. and remember coke C2?! that was so good!!! it tasted like old coke!!!!

Answer 14

There are many types of sugars for various uses and none of them get into a diet drink, so sweetener manufactuers keep coming up with new substitute-sugar entrants in their battle for this gigantic market.  The one certain advantage for the unsweetened variety is the avoidance of the huge number of calories leading to type-2 diabetes in many middle-aged and older people. Over-use of sugar can also disturb the blood-sugar levels, especially in young children.