Diet Coke

Diet Coca Cola commonly known and referred as Diet Coke is produced and distributed by The Coca Cola Company. It is a sugar free soft drink and trademarked as Coca-Cola. In some countries outside Northern America, Diet Coke is called Coca-Cola Light or Coke Light. Diet Coke is the #1 selling sugar-free soda in the world. Diet coke was initially sweetened with aspartame and later switched to NutraSweet. However, sometime later it switched back to doing without NutraSweet.

Diet Coke from fountain dispensers contains some saccharin, which extends shelf life.
Coca Cola Company also produces Coca Cola Zero or Coke Zero, which is a low calorie version of coke. Coca Cola Zero or Coke Zero is marketed as coke with zero calories, but others claim it is with zero sugar. Diet Coke does not utilize a modified form of the Coca-Cola recipe but is instead an entirely different formula.

Pepsi launched Diet Pepsi in 1964, which is a low calorie carbonated cola. This is a variant of Pepsi Cola with no sugar. In some countries, Diet Pepsi is known as Pepsi Light. Infact demand for sugar free softdrinks by overweight, diabetics, athletes have lead to enormous demand of diet coke and diet pepsi. Coca-Cola Zero does in fact contain a trace amount of calories. Depending on the country where it is made, it has about 0.3 to 0.5 cal per 100 mL. Generally a can of 330 ml of diet coke contains 1.3 calories, while an equal amount of normal coke contains 142 calories.

Diet Coke does not utilize a modification of the normal formula of the Coca-Cola recipe but is instead uses an entirely different formula. This controversial diet coke used a version of the Diet Coke recipe that contained fructose corn syrup and had a little different balance of ingredients. But, in 2004 Coca-Cola introduced Coca Cola C2, which tastes much closer to Coca-Cola but contains half quantity of the carbohydrates.

Diet Coke is sold in 149 countries around the world. Coke Zero's stated ingredients vary in different markets, which are carbonated water, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, caffeine, phosphoric acid and flavours. You can find Vanilla Coke and Diet Coke with Lemon, Diet Cherry Coke or Diet Coke Cherry, Diet Vanilla Coke / Diet Coke Vanilla cans in the market too.

Some critics say that diet coke is a poison and addictive. Some coke lovers consume several litre od diet coke daily. Aspartame in diet coke is like poison. National Soft Drink Association Coke opposed FDA approval of aspartame for beverages. They contend that Aspartame is unstable and breaks down in the can to decompose into formaldehyde, methyl alcohol, formic acid, diketopiperazine and other toxins.

According to the company's UK website as of 2004:
• Diet Coke is the #1 selling sugar-free soda in the world;
• Diet Coke is the third-largest brand at the company, and the fourth most-popular carbonated soft drink in the world;
• Diet Coke is sold in 149 countries; in 46 of them, where diet has undesirable connotations, it is known as Coca-Cola Light;
• The top five markets for the brand are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Brazil.
• Some predict that Diet Coke will soon overtake Pepsi and Coca-Cola as the #1 soft drink in the USA because, over the last decade, both Pepsi and Coca-Cola Classic had lost market share and Diet Coke has gained market share (up to 9.8% in 2005).

Commercials refer only to Coke Light or Coca-Cola Light or Diet Coke. In most of Europe, the drink is marketed as Coca-Cola Light. Coca Cola is often referred as Cola but Coca-Cola Company discourages the name cola. Many people looking for information about Diet Coca Cola use the words such as: calories in diet coke, diet coke syrup, diet coke commercial, diet coke logo, diet coke bottle, coca cola light, diet coke ingrdients, is diet coke bad for you, diet coke cake, diet coke experiments, diet coke can, diet coke and diabetes, diet coke picture, diet coke addiction, etc.