Coca Cola Life with Stevia Review

I’d heard some time ago about the release of Coca-Cola with stevia, however it was only last week I actually saw them on sale. It’s easy to recognise as it comes in a green can.

The new Coke is called ‘Coca-Cola Life’ and is described as ‘a sparkling soft drink with vegetable extracts and sugar and sweetener’. It has 33% fewer calories than the full sugared variety.

I’m not a fizzy drink consumer, but my son and his friends love the stuff. So I decided to buy a few to see what they thought. And of course, I had a small taste myself.

Coca Cola Life is basically the regular Coke but instead is sweetened with stevia AND sugar. I didn't realize this until I looked at the calories – 89 calories per 330ml can or 136 calories per 500ml bottle! Since Stevia doesn't have any calories, these calories are obviously coming from the sugar.

Coca-Cola Life 330ml can: 89 calories

I’m not really sure what the point of this is. They already have Diet Coke and Coke Zero etc., so why this one? OK, so stevia is a natural sweetener and the others are sweetened with artificial sweeteners. But still, each can has 5 teaspoons of sugar in it!

Coca-Cola Life 500ml bottle: 136 calories

I suppose the idea was to produce a Coke that tasted as close as possible to the original Coke. So I put it to the test.

Everyone was keen to have a swig of the new Coca Cola Life. The verdict - most couldn't taste any difference between regular Coke and Coca-Cola Life. However, a couple said they could definitely detect some sort of after taste.

I had some myself, but as I haven’t drunk the stuff for years, to me, it just tasted like Coke.

So why buy this? I guess if you don’t like the taste of Diet Coke and you’re wanting to cut down on sugar and calories, you might like Coca-Cola Life.

	Coca Cola Regular	Coca Cola Life
Calories per 330ml can	136	89
Sugar per 330ml can	8 tsp	5 tsp

So you save 47 calories and 3 teaspoons of sugar by drinking Coca-Cola Life instead of regular (full fat).

Ingredients: carbonated water, sugar, colour (caramel E150d), natural flavourings including caffeine, phosphoric acid, sweetener (Steviol glycosides).

Other information: Made in GB

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