Is Coca Cola Zero healthy?

It’s soda, so no.

Healthier than regular Coca-Cola, perhaps, but not outright healthy

As jonno says, Fluther previously decided that it was healthier than regular soda.

On the healthy spectrum, I’d say less healthy than sparkling water, but more healthy than crack cocaine.

Sorry for not specifying…I did mean if it is healthier than regular coke.

Coke Zero is different in the fact that it’s sweetened with both aspartame and acesulfame K. Diet Coke, for example, only contains Splenda. Coke Zero is now doing what Diet Pepsi has been doing in many years in certain countries (like Canada) in using these ingredients rather than simply Splenda.

In my opinion, the combination in Coke Zero tastes better than Diet Coke, so it’s got a point there. As for healthiness, no pop is good for you… rating the healthiness compared to regular Coke then it depends on what you’re looking for.

Regular Coke contains sugar, which of course has high calories and will make you fat. Coke Zero has zero actual sugar, and low calories… but it is still considered unhealthy. Why? There’s talk that acesulfame K hasn’t been studied thoroughly enough and may be considered carcinogenic, though these claims have been dismissed by the USFDA. Wikipedia states that aspartame is also under duress because “some studies have also recommended further investigation into possible connections between aspartame and negative effects such as headaches, brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma.”

Scary, no?

Diet Coke now contains Splenda? When did this happen across the board?

(I’ve seen Diet Coke bottles with Splenda marked on them, but I figured it was a marketing ploy—and then they vanished, so if they did switch to sucralose across the board I missed it.)

I am one of the people who gets headaches from aspartame, so I avoid it, but I also like Coke a great deal, and if there were a formula that kept the same acidity and mouth feel as regular Coke but were sweetened with Splenda, I would be happy.

@boydieshere: maybe you should change your user name AND give up drinking soda. We don’t want any self-fulfilling prophecies here. :-). The collective cares.

haha the username is symbolic…in many things (tarot, etc.), “death” means “change.” I don’t drink much soda (and try to avoid it), but I like how Coke Zero tastes, which is my only incentive to drink it.

It still contains phosphoric acid and is carbonated so it won’t do your dental health any good at all!

@adrianscott ”...“some studies have also recommended further investigation into possible connections between aspartame and negative effects such as headaches, brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma.”
This sounds SO much like the “small print” on a tv ad for a new pharmaceutical that will make us better.