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Does Coca Cola contain Aspartame?

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ne0h

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Soft drinks like orange squash, cream soda, lilt and 'diet coke' have aspartame listed as an ingredient on their labels. Aspartame is a horrible artificial sweetener, which I try to avoid in any soft drinks. I even think that I can taste aspartame in fluids.

However, Coca Cola does not have aspartame on it's label. It just says it's a soft drink with "vegetable extracts" and lists :
"Carbonated water, sugar, colour (caramel), phosphoric acid, natural flavourings including caffeine".

The sweet taste does not seem to be aspartame. Coca Cola for me is a nice refreshing drink and I would like to know if it does contain aspartame. Can anyone shed any light on this?
 
look for the words "contains a source of phenylalanine" which will be somewhere under the ingredients. I have read an article that Coca Cola are looking to move to Stevia and are in discussions with the FDA in America
 
The 2 main ingredients is carbonated water and sugar


Type 2 diagnosed 24/01/2013.
Novomix 30, Victoza, metformin 2000mg sr (but not taking them as they play havoc with my insides,
 
Hasn't there been some sort of problem with "caramel flavour" as well? I vaguely recall something along those lines.

Yep, and not to mention the sugar content.
 
ne0h said:
Soft drinks like orange squash, cream soda, lilt and 'diet coke' have aspartame listed as an ingredient on their labels. Aspartame is a horrible artificial sweetener, which I try to avoid in any soft drinks. I even think that I can taste aspartame in fluids.

However, Coca Cola does not have aspartame on it's label. It just says it's a soft drink with "vegetable extracts" and lists :
"Carbonated water, sugar, colour (caramel), phosphoric acid, natural flavourings including caffeine".

The sweet taste does not seem to be aspartame. Coca Cola for me is a nice refreshing drink and I would like to know if it does contain aspartame. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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According to their official site it does:
http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/ingredients/what-is-aspartame-and-is-it-safe.html
 
Beachbag said:
According to their official site it does:
http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/ingredients/what-is-aspartame-and-is-it-safe.html
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I have read this though it does not say aspartame is used in cola. It does say it is used in some of the drinks made by the coca cola company. For example, aspartame is in Lilt and the ingredients label clearly says so (Lilt is made by the coca cola company). The reason I asked this question is because the ingredients label of a coca cola can or bottle does not mention aspartame. If it is an ingredient why is it not on the label?
 
ne0h said:
I have read this though it does not say aspartame is used in cola. It does say it is used in some of the drinks made by the coca cola company. For example, aspartame is in Lilt and the ingredients label clearly says so (Lilt is made by the coca cola company). The reason I asked this question is because the ingredients label of a coca cola can or bottle does not mention aspartame. If it is an ingredient why is it not on the label?
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Normal coke contains no sweetners at all other than sugar


Type 2 diagnosed 24/01/2013.
Novomix 30, Victoza, metformin 2000mg sr (but not taking them as they play havoc with my insides,
 
Crimsonclient said:
Normal coke contains no sweetners at all other than sugar


Type 2 diagnosed 24/01/2013.
Novomix 30, Victoza, metformin 2000mg sr (but not taking them as they play havoc with my insides,
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Thank you. I suspected this was the case but couldn't be certain.
 
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