Truth about "zero calorie soda's"?
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Does really the coca cola zero or any zero labeled soda's is a zero calorie beverage? Seriously like a water or tea?! It's still have a bit of taste like a sugar how does it became zero calories? I love consuming that beverage occassional in parties or other occassions and im worried overthinking everytime i drink it up if it is actually containing zero calorie that won't hurt my calorie budget up in a day. Also my father is a diabetic person who's also consuming that drink occassionaly when going outside for a lunch it doesn't hurt his daily blood sugar regulation so is it possible that it is a zero calorie beverage? Or im the one overthinking it because of my obsessions on calories. Feel free to have a comment, advices and opinions below
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It has very minimal calories. Like miniscule. Check the nutrition label. You're over thinking it.0
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If it's under five calories they can say it's zero calorie.
I drink loads of the stuff.5 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »If it's under five calories they can say it's zero calorie.
I drink loads of the stuff.livingleanlivingclean wrote: »It has very minimal calories. Like miniscule. Check the nutrition label. You're over thinking it.
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They aren't lying, that's how American labelling laws work.
250 mL diet coke is 1 calorie. 0.1 g protein, 0.3 g carbs.6 -
Seriously, unless you're chugging whole 2 liter bottles in one go, it's a non-issue.10
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »They aren't lying, that's how American labelling laws work.
250 mL diet coke is 1 calorie. 0.1 g protein, 0.3 g carbs.
Maybe i should just log it up 250ml 1 cal even the label saying it is zero without any worries btw thanks
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It's more like tea than water (yes, tea has calories).2
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I love my Coke Zero. I admit at places with fountain drinks i always go 2/3 zero & 1/3 other sugary flavor (dr p, root beer, cherry coke) GUILTY4 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »They aren't lying, that's how American labelling laws work.
250 mL diet coke is 1 calorie. 0.1 g protein, 0.3 g carbs.
Maybe i should just log it up 250ml 1 cal even the label saying it is zero without any worries btw thanks
How big of a difference do you expect that 1 calorie to make?9 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »They aren't lying, that's how American labelling laws work.
250 mL diet coke is 1 calorie. 0.1 g protein, 0.3 g carbs.
Maybe i should just log it up 250ml 1 cal even the label saying it is zero without any worries btw thanks
How big of a difference do you expect that 1 calorie to make?
Maybe he drinks 250-300 of them a day.11 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »They aren't lying, that's how American labelling laws work.
250 mL diet coke is 1 calorie. 0.1 g protein, 0.3 g carbs.
Maybe i should just log it up 250ml 1 cal even the label saying it is zero without any worries btw thanks
How big of a difference do you expect that 1 calorie to make?
Nope,I doesn't expect much sometimes i can have my cup of coffee without sugar that only contains not more than 5 cal's a cup i don't log it up anymore. But im driven out to ask this question because of my curiousity about the zero coke or a diet coke other term if it is really a very low calorie soda, then people answer me up that it only contains no more than 5 every 250ml now i don't have any to worry about
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Guess why they use high-fructose corn syrup?
To match the sugar profile of table sugar, which is higher fructose than corn syrup would naturally be. And it's cheaper.
Funny how some people are fine with table sugar and it's compound makeup, but a corn syrup changed to match it is demonized.
Not that you did that - others do.
Also, the minuscule amount of calories actually in it - despite them legally being able to say zero - is more than wiped out by the inaccuracies in your own weighing of foods you eat.
Or the increased sugar content in fruit that is riper than the nutrition info database was based on.8 -
I know Diet Mt. Dew has a few calories but I think the diet colas are zero.
It's a minuscule amount in any event so I don't worry about it.
Now salty dry roasted peanuts OTOH.....yikes!2 -
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nutmegoreo wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »They aren't lying, that's how American labelling laws work.
250 mL diet coke is 1 calorie. 0.1 g protein, 0.3 g carbs.
Maybe i should just log it up 250ml 1 cal even the label saying it is zero without any worries btw thanks
How big of a difference do you expect that 1 calorie to make?
Maybe he drinks 250-300 of them a day.
If he's drinking that much, he's going to have bigger problems than the calories! :laugh:1 -
Guess why they use high-fructose corn syrup?
To match the sugar profile of table sugar, which is higher fructose than corn syrup would naturally be. And it's cheaper.
Funny how some people are fine with table sugar and it's compound makeup, but a corn syrup changed to match it is demonized.
Not that you did that - others do.
Also, the minuscule amount of calories actually in it - despite them legally being able to say zero - is more than wiped out by the inaccuracies in your own weighing of foods you eat.
Or the increased sugar content in fruit that is riper than the nutrition info database was based on.
Well said. Just wanted to add a little research review to back that point up: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/straight-talk-about-high-fructose-corn-syrup-what-it-is-and-what-it-aint-research-review.html/2 -
it's legally allowed to display as <5 calories0
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it's legally allowed to display as <5 calories
That is the case in America.
Not in all countries.
Op is not in America.
In Australia, for example, Pepsi Max gives its calorie amount, like all products, per 100 ml or per 100g.
So the can tells me it is 1.6 kilojoules/100 mls which is about 1/2 calorie or about 2 calories per can.
I do not bother logging it.3 -
Pretty sure the zero in Coke Zero is zero sugar and not zero calories. I have never been under the illusion that diet soft drink has zero calories and I have never seen or heard it advertised as such..1
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Life is too short to worry in my opinion; there aren't enough calories to undo your daily deficit and they don't give you cancer.4
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