Do any sodas exist that have half the amount of sugar(or HFCS even) that aren’t ‘diet’?
I ask because, when I think about it, even independent soda makers still have 30-40g of sugar in all their products. Then, if they have a diet product, it will be half the sugar/hfcs and the other half will be replaced with something else and weird.
I don’t think I have ever seen a brand of soda that simply has half the amount of sugar. The closest thing I can think of, ironically, is Propel fitness water, which has about 12g of sugar to gatorade’s 40g, but I think a bottle of propel is 2 servings so that kicks it up to 24g.
I’m just curious really, is it that most sodas would taste really nasty without all that sugar?
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
I’ll take that as “I don’t know the answer to your question”.[/quote]
LOL.
No its a whats the point. Sounds just like a marketing ploy. It would likely work tell ppl they et half the crap. What im saying is like a shit sandwich even with half the HFCS etc its still shit
[quote]Phill wrote:
Malevolence wrote:
I’ll take that as “I don’t know the answer to your question”.
LOL.
No its a whats the point. Sounds just like a marketing ploy. It would likely work tell ppl they et half the crap. What im saying is like a shit sandwich even with half the HFCS etc its still shit
Phill[/quote]
Just curiosity, nothing else. I don’t drink soda, I don’t want to drink soda, and I don’t have any delusions that one type of soda is any better than another type of soda(outside of the fact that a soda with real sugar is probably a bit ‘better’ than a soda with HFCS, but they still have ~40g of sugar eitherway, so feh).
The reason it came to mind was after I was reading CaliforniaLaw’s thread on diet soda and obesity, I thought “what the hell is the deal with diet soda? why is it so fucking weird, why don’t sodas exist that just half half or a quarter of the sugar and call it a day, would it really be that disgusting?, if so, I want to try that because that is curious.”
You know, with most products, there are independent alternatives that may offer more natural ingredients, less artificial crap, and overall a higher quality product. But even independent soda makers still use the same amount of sugar as a Coke, sometimes even more. It’s just kind of weird to me, why is 38-42g of sugar the standard fare for soda? why has there never been a market for a wider variety?
Coke and Pepsi both tried this, and the products bombed. The Coke version was called C2. I forget the Pepsi version.
They still tasted like diet, but had more calories. Maybe if they hadn’t pumped these products full of diet sweetener they might have been more popular.
I loved C2 actually, but you can’t find it anymore. Cherry coke zero is the first diet I’ve actually liked. Water is obviously better, but if you’re going to drink soda, they do have a few decent tasting alternatives nowadays.
Theres tons of soda with less sugar. At least they try to make a different kind every month. And yes to someone who drinks regular soda it is disgusting, so they usually get cut. Just not much of a market for half sugar soda. Most people are either healthy and don’t drink it, or grew up drinking regular soda and don’t want to drink half sugar soda.
[quote]BigBen72 wrote:
Coke and Pepsi both tried this, and the products bombed. The Coke version was called C2. I forget the Pepsi version.
They still tasted like diet, but had more calories. Maybe if they hadn’t pumped these products full of diet sweetener they might have been more popular. [/quote]