It contains orange juice... really, read the label. I alleviate my guilt over this addiction by always keeping in mind that I'm drinking orange juice. Sure it is watered down, enchanced with added sugar and caffeine, contains brominated vegetable oil so it looks appealingly cloudy, and is preserved by the addition of EDTA...  well... it contains orange juice... and sucose is natural! So is caffeine. And vegetable oil. Very wholesome.

I wonder whether they are working on an organic version. I'm tired of the person at the grocery store giving me a funny look as I put my organic eggs, milk, carrots et cetera on the conveyer belt... followed by a 24-pack of Mountain Dew. Apparently she finds it amusing.

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Most adults here drink simply water -- lots of it -- during the day. (Wine is for meals.) While some people do drink international brands of soda pop, the French brands, like Orangina, tend to have a bit higher percentage of natural ingredients than diet coke: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup [boo! hiss!] and/or sugar, orange and other citrus juice concentrate, citrus fruit pulp, citric acid, phosphoric acid, guarana extract, natural flavor, caffeine, artificial color.

One popular children's' "soda", Brut de Pomme is for the most part carbonated apple juice, with no added sugar or corn syrup. Its ingredients are: apple juice from concentrate (60%), carbonated water, apple aroma, and citric acid and malic acid, both of which are derived from fruit.

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Is the carbonated apple juice or something similar available in the United States? I would like to try it.

Thanks.

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How long before Diet Coke + Vitamins + Electrolytes gets pumped through the water system.

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I don't know. But you can always make your own simply by mixing fruit juice with carbonated water. That's what we do, and our son (who now, at the age of 13, drinks mainly water), used to love.

Drink diet coke for the nutrition. That's.... a thought. A bad one, but a thought none the less. I have to wonder if the pitchman for the idea was able to sell it with a straight face?

Now, I admit. I drink a can or two of soda a week, most often while out and about and having to choose between grey city tap water at my dining location of choice or just take the soda. I do it with the full knowledge that it's bad for me. (Same calm I greet the odd piece of cheesecake, and my once a year indulgence in fair fries, funnel cakes, and lemon shakeups.) When I want to have something thats good for me - most of the time - I do so. As long as you don't drink it 24-7 to the sole exclusion of more nutritious options I think its fine. But trying to say that it can be made GOOD for you? That's just surreal. And a little bit sad. While I grew up drinking Classic Coke, with this little brainchild being their newest offering... I think I'll just give it up. Not sure I want to send my money to people this dim - or desperate.

Good article... and I'll join you on the apple.

At one point, aluminum did in fact leach its way from can to beverage. This, however, is no longer the case. Aluminum cans are lined with plastic to prevent this. Many references to this lining can ge found with a simple Google search and the doubtful can even do a little home experiment to confirm its existence personally.

One prefer the aluminum over the plastic.

Let see... consume small amounts of an element we are exposed to regularly on a massive scale via dust in the atmosphere... or consume chemicals leached from a plastic that might have been used for packaging food for only a few decades?

I'll consume the aluminum. I doubt there is a significant quantity dissolved in the contents of the can.

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This sounds like a sit-com situation: the dysfunctional room-mates, apprehensively studying from afar the can of pop on the kitchen counter, debating whether they should approach it with a stainless steel utensil, or with a wooden one.  Of course, everyone is wearing baking mittens.

All because of a typo.

Good for Magpie Bard, and his/her sense of festival, of holiday, of annual funnel cakes!  This is always what I say about Christmas and Easter: once a year, it cannot hurt you!

(Umm, OK, let me rephrase that: so long as you use appropriate protection ... )

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

So I am study to be a registered dietitian and I'm doing a project on minerals. Since there are virtually no articles on minerals, I picked the example of Coke plus adding vitamins and "minerals". What I am finding is that the only real mineral added to Coke Plus, besides the trace mineral Zinc, is magnesium. Of all the minerals, magnesium has the smallest daily value of 400 mg a day. With some calculations, I found that there is less magnesium in an 8 oz bottle than there is in 2 tablespoons of peanut butter. I realize that no drink is going to contain all your nutrition needs but for Coke to claim added vitamins and minerals, I think as most things, it's just another gimmick. Eat healthy, it's as simple as that.