Sprite Zero
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Low Carb Drinks, Sugar Free Drinks
Not reaching potential. The Glucoholic’s parents heard this often around report card time so he knows a little something about the concept. Sprite Zero’s report card doesn’t sound much better. Let’s start with the basics. Sprite Zero contains zero of almost everything known to man, except for 25mg of sodium. It’s sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame potassium. This combination makes the drink much more tolerable than diet sodas of yesteryear, and the original Sprite flavor is evident. What cannot be escaped is the unrelenting, unemotional, uncaring aftertaste of that aspartame. Even cut with acesulfame potassium the bitterness is still there.
Here’s where The Glucoholic gets to do some report card filling out of his own. Coca-Cola, this drink could have been a home run. Simply choosing to sweeten it with Splenda would probably have yielded a soft drink indistinguishable from it’s naturally sweetened sister. As driven, this drink is a potential A+ student doing B- work.
But we can’t stop the evaluation here. The Glucoholic made the mistake of attempting to find out anything about Sprite Zero on the Coca-Cola website (not linked on principle). We thought we had seen the pinnacle of hideous websites when MySpace hit the internets, but the Coke website is the new winner. After plenty of pop-ups, IE only features, and ignored tangents for music, social networking, and rewards programs we finally came to the conclusion that there just isn’t any information on the website about their actual products. How sad.
The most ironic stop on the website journey was finding some Cherry Coke swag to place on your MySpace page. You know, it’s really like seeing crack dealers putting up crack billboards on crack houses. Is it that difficult to keep kids loyal to something they are addicted to?
January 5th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Willston Vermont
1.4.09- temp approx 10 degrees
getting ready for bed i heard a huge
‘BANG ‘! sounded like a shotgun going off !
i looked out onto the closed-in
back porch looked like glass shattered every which way , my 1st thought was someone shot out one of the windows!!!!!! upon closer examination- i found a 2ltr bottle of Sprite Zero had EXPLODED ! litterally EXPLODED ! chunks of frozen Sprite Zero covered the walls, ceiling, windows, floor ! what a mess !!!! is there some ingredient that would be ‘contents under pressure’? phew what a scarry moment ! i don’t drink the ‘zero’, but do daily drink regular SPRITE, and have for years …. never had this happen w/a bottle of sprite- unless the 2ltr bottle when frozen - explodes?! please advise, THANKS
good thing no one / or my pets were out on that porch when the bottle exploded ~
January 5th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Same thing happened with a dude at work. He put a sixpack in the freezer to make it “get cold faster” and a few hours later - monster explosion.
February 27th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Actually, it’s got less aftertaste if you mix it with other drinks, like the diet lemonades. I think it’s better than Diet Sierra Mist.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I had a Sprite Zero today and have to say it is by far the “best” zero calorie drink I have tried. Coke Zero and Cherry Coke Zero are ok but they have an after taste (much better than Diet COke or Diet Pepsi). However, Sprite Zero actually tasted better than the original and didn’t have an after taste.
September 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Yesterday, I tasted Sprite Zero and really liked it! It has a slight bitter aftertaste but taste almost as good as the original regular Sprite. It does have almost the same amount of sodium as a regular soda drink but no calories or caffeine. Really good!!
January 9th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Had a bottle that we were keeping on the dock in our garage explode when the temp was around 0 degrees F. It sounded like a shot. The bottle was warped and twisted beyond recognition. The top of the bottle and the cap were 10 feet away. Other bottles and a six pack of beer were blown to the floor. The wrapper was stuck on a box of coke and had hit so hard that it punctured it. Frozen Sprite zero nuggets were everywhere. Be careful if you freeze this stuff. I think I could have been hurt had I been near the explosion.