Diet coke or pepsi?

ahmshaki

I'm drinking on average 3 cans of diet coke a day.

Which one do you prefer and why?

PaulaWallaDingDong

Diet Coke. Ideally Coke Zero, but we get free diet at my job so I tolerate it.

Diet pepsi (new formula) tastes like musty basement to me.

MsAmandaNJ

I'm partial to Coca Cola, always tasted better to me than Pepsi. Diet Coke tastes like a diet soda to me, Diet Pepsi I don't think I've ever had, so I was thrilled when Coke Zero came out. I'm off caffeine now, so I don't drink it anymore, but that's the one I went for these past few years.

AngryViking1970

Diet Pepsi, for sure.

ETA: Diet Coke tastes more chemically to me, but I'll drink it. When I go out to eat I usually order a "Diet Brown" if I don't know what they carry. LOL

malibu927

Diet Pepsi. I've never liked the taste of Diet Coke (but Coke Zero is fine).

Ruatine

Neither....

Diet Dr. Pepper all the way.

MalkinMagic71

Coke Zero is nectar from the gods.

kimny72

Coke Zero! Especially when I can find the Vanilla or Cherry

SusanMFindlay

Coke Zero.

Even more so, Diet Dr Pepper.

Also a fan of Canada Dry diet ginger ale and Fresca.

TR0berts

Diet Dr. Thunder - not as sweet as Diet Dr. Pepper, and costs a bit less.

Wynterbourne

Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry.

TeaBea

Diet A&W - very low acid (reflux)

akindofmagick

Neither. Consider swearing off soda forever. Diet soda contributes to obesity - even the soda companies know it, which is why two of the biggies spent well over a billion US $$ this week to buy natural soda startups (both founded in 2009). I was a Diet Coke addict for 30+ years, 3-6 cans a day. It was my primary source of "water". Went cold turkey on 1 Jan 2015 and never looked back. And yes, I'm down 75#. Thanks, VSG (June 2015), and thanks, WATER. Real water. Not soda. Never soda, ever again. Unfortunately, I've just been diagnosed with osteopenia... probably due in large part to all that soda I drank.

Carnhot

Whichever is on special offer.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

Diet Pepsi tastes better than Diet Coke

Fun fact: Has anyone heard about New Coke (or do you remember it)? The origin of New Coke is that Pepsi was beating Coke in Coca-Cola's own taste tests and Coca-Cola was trying to figure out how to gain some of Pepsi's consumers. Coca-Cola also found in their taste tests that the flavor of Diet Coke tested better than Coke (but still worse than Pepsi).** So Coca-Cola decided to take advantage of the better flavor they owned, Diet Coke, and make a version containing calories to replace their current primary caloric drink, Coke. They did this and labeled the "new" beverage as New Coke. It failed fast in the U.S. because of culture, not taste, but I have heard there are parts of the world where you might be able to find it. Or, you could just drink Diet Coke and have the flavor without the calories.

**In case you did not know, Diet Coke does not have the same flavor of Coke. They are supposed to taste different... not sure why so many people keep thinking they are supposed to taste the same, but this seems to come up often: "Ugh, Diet Coke doesn't taste anything like Coke!"

SusanMFindlay

akindofmagick wrote: »

Went cold turkey on 1 Jan 2015 and never looked back. And yes, I'm down 75#.

Congratulations on your loss, but many people have no trouble losing weight while drinking diet soda. You must have changed something else at the same time because it's mathematically impossible to lose that kind of weight just by giving up diet soda.

Ruatine

akindofmagick wrote: »

Neither. Consider swearing off soda forever. Diet soda contributes to obesity - even the soda companies know it, which is why two of the biggies spent well over a billion US $$ this week to buy natural soda startups (both founded in 2009). I was a Diet Coke addict for 30+ years, 3-6 cans a day. It was my primary source of "water". Went cold turkey on 1 Jan 2015 and never looked back. And yes, I'm down 75#. Thanks, VSG (June 2015), and thanks, WATER. Real water. Not soda. Never soda, ever again. Unfortunately, I've just been diagnosed with osteopenia... probably due in large part to all that soda I drank.

And as an alternative anecdote for OP - I'm down 83# while drinking diet soda pretty much every day. There's nothing in diet soda that hinders weight loss unless it's a trigger for eating sweet foods, which is the case for some.

elphie754

akindofmagick wrote: »

Neither. Consider swearing off soda forever. Diet soda contributes to obesity - even the soda companies know it, which is why two of the biggies spent well over a billion US $$ this week to buy natural soda startups (both founded in 2009). I was a Diet Coke addict for 30+ years, 3-6 cans a day. It was my primary source of "water". Went cold turkey on 1 Jan 2015 and never looked back. And yes, I'm down 75#. Thanks, VSG (June 2015), and thanks, WATER. Real water. Not soda. Never soda, ever again. Unfortunately, I've just been diagnosed with osteopenia... probably due in large part to all that soda I drank.

Yeah...... No.


Diet Coke, the new formula of Diet Pepsi is disgusting.

Wynterbourne

akindofmagick wrote: »

Neither. Consider swearing off soda forever. Diet soda contributes to obesity - even the soda companies know it, which is why two of the biggies spent well over a billion US $$ this week to buy natural soda startups (both founded in 2009). I was a Diet Coke addict for 30+ years, 3-6 cans a day. It was my primary source of "water". Went cold turkey on 1 Jan 2015 and never looked back. And yes, I'm down 75#. Thanks, VSG (June 2015), and thanks, WATER. Real water. Not soda. Never soda, ever again. Unfortunately, I've just been diagnosed with osteopenia... probably due in large part to all that soda I drank.

No, no it doesn't. Don't believe that misinformation. If you're certain it's true (again, it's not), how do you explain my 118 lb loss while drinking plenty of diet soda? I'm curious.

ETA: Actually, don't answer that. As someone else pointed out, it's rude to derail the OP's post.

AnvilHead

akindofmagick wrote: »

Neither. Consider swearing off soda forever. Diet soda contributes to obesity - even the soda companies know it, which is why two of the biggies spent well over a billion US $$ this week to buy natural soda startups (both founded in 2009). I was a Diet Coke addict for 30+ years, 3-6 cans a day. It was my primary source of "water". Went cold turkey on 1 Jan 2015 and never looked back. And yes, I'm down 75#. Thanks, VSG (June 2015), and thanks, WATER. Real water. Not soda. Never soda, ever again. Unfortunately, I've just been diagnosed with osteopenia... probably due in large part to all that soda I drank.

Wrong. Pure scaremongering, not backed by actual science.

And "consider swearing off soda forever" wasn't one of the choices in the original question, no need to derail the OP's post with something completely unrelated (and untrue). I believe the question was "Diet Coke or Pepsi?".

As for me - Diet Coke all the way.

malibu927

akindofmagick wrote: »

Neither. Consider swearing off soda forever. Diet soda contributes to obesity - even the soda companies know it, which is why two of the biggies spent well over a billion US $$ this week to buy natural soda startups (both founded in 2009). I was a Diet Coke addict for 30+ years, 3-6 cans a day. It was my primary source of "water". Went cold turkey on 1 Jan 2015 and never looked back. And yes, I'm down 75#. Thanks, VSG (June 2015), and thanks, WATER. Real water. Not soda. Never soda, ever again. Unfortunately, I've just been diagnosed with osteopenia... probably due in large part to all that soda I drank.

Diet sodas have very few calories, so they do not contribute to obesity.