question: How does Coke Zero and other similar products contain no sugar, calories or caffeine and still have a taste?
comment: From what I've researched, technically…I would say yes for zero calories. However, artificial sweeteners trick your body on a metabolic level. To the extreme, that you will still gain weight. When you taste the artificial sweeteners, your brain tells your liver that you are getting sugar. Your pancreas releases insulin to force the sweeteners into your cells to be used for energy…though just like sugar, if you over do it with the artificial sweeteners, there will be an excess that can't be used. Your liver will release triglycerides which are tiny fat cells. The excess sweeteners would likely end up there, and then probably towards your tummy. There are likely other factors at play such as…I drank diet Coke all week, now I'm going to have some fun with cake and ice cream. You get the idea . I believe you should enjoy some real sugar in small amounts and leave those man made chemicals alone. Less carbs + more meats and leafy greens. Calorie is something you burn to obtain energy. The body takes something like sugar and breaks it down to carbon dioxide, water and energy(via aerobic respiration). Coke Zero/Diet Coke usually uses artificial sweeteners, and the most commonly used artificial sweetener is Aspartame. It is 550 times as sweet as regular sugar and goes undigested by the body. So yes, technically, it is possible for Diet Coke to have zero calories(i.e. if you discount the minutest calories in water). However, the purpose for ingesting food is to get energy and be able to perform work. And in that regard, drinking Diet Coke makes no sense at all. Well, I believe something advertised as 0 calories may have very little calorie (one or two, and not zero). It is a common thing in the food industry. If the manufacturer uses 100% artificial sweetener, than yes. It has 0 calorie. If the manufacturer uses 99,9796778% artificial sweetener and a tiny drop of ‘real’ sugar, I believe it is qualified to be advertised as 0 calories. Something to be noted is, water does have calorie despite very little. As long as a thing contains water, it is not 100% zero calorie.
passages: Coke Zero claimed the inspiration for Facial Profiler came from the drink itself. The tagline for the project was: "If Coke Zero has Coke's taste, is it possible someone out there has your face?"
  
  Section::::Building the face database.
   There was also an "Nothing Artificial" version of some of their flavours. In August 2007, after receiving thousands of complaints from dismayed customers, about the wildly different taste of the new 'Nothing Artificial' version of Strawberry Crusha, it was confirmed that they would revert to the old recipe.
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   All versions of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar sold in various countries are based on the same flavoring formula, and all are carbonated. One liter of Coca-Cola Zero contains 96 mg caffeine. Additionally, artificial sweeteners are used. In the U.S., this includes aspartame and acesulfame potassium. However, the exact combination of sweeteners and preservatives used varies from market to market.
  
  Section::::Ingredients.:Sweeteners and health concerns.
   Customers choose a base product, which they can supplement with additional flavoring. Diet and Zero products remain low or no calories even with flavorings added. The machines include flavors not previously available to the markets served by the machines, including Orange Coke, which was previously sold only in Russia and the Baltics (and briefly in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar). Customers may also download an app and create their own custom mixes with up to three different base products and three different flavor shots, which the fountain pours by scanning a QR code.
  
  Section::::Products.:Flavors.
   Coca-Cola Zero was Coca-Cola's largest product launch in 22 years. The global campaign was done by creative agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. It was marketed as having a taste that is indistinguishable from standard Coca-Cola, as opposed to Diet Coke, which has a different flavor profile.
  
  Section::::History.:2017 reformulation.
   Pepsi Zero Sugar
  
  Pepsi Zero Sugar (sold under the names Diet Pepsi Max until early 2009 and then Pepsi Max until August 2016), is a zero-calorie, sugar-free, ginseng-infused cola sweetened with aspartame, marketed by PepsiCo. In Fall 2016, PepsiCo renamed the drink Pepsi Zero Sugar from Pepsi Max. It has nearly twice the caffeine of Pepsi's other cola beverages. Pepsi Zero Sugar contains 69 milligrams of caffeine per 355ml (12 fl oz), versus 36 milligrams in Diet Pepsi.
  
  Section::::History.
   In 2017, despite increasing sales in the United States, the Coca-Cola Company announced that Coca-Cola Zero would be reformulated and rebranded as Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, intended to taste more like standard Coca-Cola while emphasizing the lack of sugar content. The new formula was first tested in the United Kingdom in June 2016, with plans to roll it out in other countries in the following months.
   Section::::Reception.
   Unfortunately the crash landing caused the replicators to go on the fritz—every time you ask for a pizza, a slice is missing. When you ask the computer why it keeps holding back a slice, it claims it needs to taste the pizza first to be sure it's kosher, and that this is a feature. Feature. Right. As if that isn't bad enough, the only drinks the replicators seem to be able to produce are Diet Mountain Dew and Caffeine Free Pepsi.
   Despite the implications of its name, there is no evidence that the current version of Coca-Cola syrup contains kola nut extract; originally included for its caffeine content, modern Coca-Cola uses caffeine citrate produced by the decaffeination of coffee. 
  
  The primary taste of Coca-Cola is thought to come from vanilla and cinnamon, with trace amounts of essential oils, and spices such as nutmeg. A 2015 study identified and measured 58 aroma compounds in common colas, confirming significant amounts of compounds corresponding to cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, orange and lemon essential oils in Coca Cola.
  
  Section::::Formula variations in the United States.
   Coca-Cola Zero, a sugar-free cola from the Coca-Cola Company, is marketed in a similar manner. In the UK some Coke Zero advertising alluded to Pepsi Max, leading to a robust counter-campaign by Pepsi extolling the virtues of the concept of "maximum" over that of "zero."
  
  Section::::Product positioning.:Variants.
  
  In early-2005, the North American drink Pepsi ONE was revised, with Splenda brand sucralose replacing the aspartame ingredient.
  
  Section::::Canadian formulation.
   Sprite Zero Sugar
  
  Sprite Zero Sugar is a colorless, lemon-lime soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company. It is a sugar-free variant of Sprite, and is one of the drinks in Coca-Cola's "Zero Sugar" lineup. 
  
  Section::::History.
   The Coca-Cola Zero Sugar logo features the Coca-Cola logo in white script, with the words "zero sugar" in black underneath. The word "zero" is in lower case in the geometric typeface Avenir (or a customized version of it); the word "sugar" is in upper case. These words appear in a red disc on a black background.
  
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   Section::::Background and recording.
  
  On November 13, 2016, Grande stated on Snapchat that she had finished her fourth album. She later clarified by saying, "I didn't mean to make an album, and I don't know if it's done at all, but I just have a bunch of songs that I really really like. I've been working a lot and have been creating and feeling inspired." In December 2017, she confirmed that she was still working on the album.
   A can of Diet Pepsi Free can be seen beside Marty's alarm clock towards the beginning of the movie when Doc (Christopher Lloyd) calls him to remind him to meet him at the mall. The can is also seen toward the end of the movie when Marty wakes up in the morning at his house in 1985.
   The song was first teased in Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry" music video, along with other songs. Grande posted a picture of herself listening to the song on her instagram story. On July 21, 2018, a paparazzi leaked a snippet of Grande playing the song in her car, later that day Grande confirmed the snippet on her Twitter.
  
  Section::::Composition and lyrics.
   Sodium cyclamate, a relatively inexpensive artificial sweetener banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1969 and once believed to be a carcinogen, has been used in the Coca-Cola Zero versions produced in Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Venezuela, Chile, and some Central American countries. It was used for a time in Mexico, before a consumer campaign led to its removal from the drink in 2008. In June 2009, Venezuela ordered Coca-Cola to withdraw its Coca-Cola Zero product, as it contained more than the legal levels of sodium cyclamate.
  
  Section::::Marketing.
   Section::::Promotion.
   Richard Speight, Jr. is the "Pepsi Max" delivery guy for all commercials the last two years, with ads featuring major baseball and football stars, and also with Snoop Dogg and 4-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon, who worked with Pepsi Max in 2013 to create "", along with "Road Trip to the Race Track" two years prior. Pepsi Max also sponsored Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kasey Kahne during the 2013 Cup Series season.
  
  Pepsi Max's current slogan in the US is "Maximum taste. Zero calories." 
   Vitamalz contains water, barley malt, glucose syrup, carbonic acid, food coloring E150c and hops. It does not contain alcohol. According to the bottle, it should be consumed within one year of purchase. The website claims it has about as many calories as an orange juice; in fact, at 43 kcal per 100 ml, it is about on par with both alcoholic lager and most soft drinks with added sugar.
   Section::::Critical reception.
   In November 2005, EepyBird created their first Coke & Mentos experiment as the finale to a sketch called "In The Kitchen With Fritz" at the Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield, Maine. That performance culminated in a ten-bottle Coke & Mentos fountain.
  
  Spurred on by the response of the live crowd, they then spent the next five months working on new effects and preparing a 101-bottle experiment modeled on the Bellagio fountains on the Las Vegas Strip. They filmed their big experiment, "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments: Experiment #137" on April 29, 2006 in a field in Buckfield, Maine.
   The primary modern flavoring ingredients in a cola drink are citrus oils (from orange, lime, and lemon peels), cinnamon, vanilla, and an acidic flavorant. Manufacturers of cola drinks add trace flavorings to create distinctively different tastes for each brand. Trace flavorings may include a wide variety of ingredients, such as spices like nutmeg or coriander, but the base flavorings that most people identify with a cola taste remain citrus, vanilla and cinnamon. Acidity is often provided by phosphoric acid, sometimes accompanied by citric or other isolated acids. Coca-Cola's recipe is maintained as a corporate trade secret.
   Section::::Brand portfolio.
  
  This is a list of variants of Coca-Cola introduced around the world. In addition to the caffeine-free version of the original, additional fruit flavors have been included over the years. Not included here are versions of Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar; variant versions of those no-calorie colas can be found at their respective articles.
  
  BULLET::::- Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola (1983–present) – Coca-Cola without the caffeine.
  
  BULLET::::- Coca-Cola Cherry (1985–present) – Coca-Cola with a cherry flavor. Was available in Canada starting in 1996. Originally marketed as Cherry Coke (Cherry Coca-Cola) in North America until 2006.
  
presuppositions: In order to have a taste, a food or drink must have sugar, calories or caffeine. 
corrections: Artificial sweeteners use aspartame, which is 550 times sweeter than sugar and is undigested by the body.
raw_presuppositions: In order to have a taste, a food or drink must have sugar, calories or caffeine.  In order to have a taste, a food or drink must have sugar, calories or caffeine. 
raw_corrections: Artificial sweeteners use aspartame, which is 550 times sweeter than sugar and is undigested by the body. Artificial enhancers can enhance taste without sugar, calories or caffeine. 