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Diet Tips: Great Tasting Diet Soda
Diet Questions from our readers on the best tasting sodas on the market. Our suggestions and tips for soda.
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Reader Question. Can you recommend a good tasting diet soda? I tried Diet Coke and Diet DP and they tasted terrible to me.
I am not a soda-holic, but I do like to enjoy a soda now and then. And how bad are regular sodas? How many calories do they have in them?
Please help?~ Jake from New York
Diet Bites Response. Jake, these are our top recommendations:
Diet Vanilla Coke, Diet A & W Root Beer, Diet A & W Cream Soda, Diet Sunkist Orange, Fresca, Diet Rite Cola and Diet Sprite. Pepsi's ONE is also pretty tasty.
As a note, we weren't paid anything for endorsing these selections.
The reason why regular soda contains so many calories is due to the sugar content in the beverage. Sodas are virtually free of fat - the other offender in the daily diet responsible for excess calories which contribute to weight gain and obesity.
Jake, here are a few examples of popular regular sodas and their sugar gram content for your comparison. Be sure to check labels on your favorite soda for caloric content as well as serving size before choosing if you decide to enjoy a regular soda.
One of your wisest choices is club soda which contains zero calories and zero sugar. You can add a bit of 100% concentrated fruit juice to the club soda and you'll have a low calorie soda that tastes delicious and that also contains nutritional value. As to nutritional value in soda, it's mostly empty calories with little to no value in the area of nutrition.
Due to the sugar content it does serve to boost energy levels but the boost is short-lived and the blood sugar levels tend to falls drastically when they fall after experiencing the high.
Caffeine in some sodas, typically the cola based soda will also provide a boost like coffee and tea which also contain caffeine. Again, the effect is temporary. Caffeine may effect blood pressure negatively in some individuals, thus taxing the circulatory system as well as the heart - also placing the body at risk for stroke. Diet Bites does not recommend soda plied with caffeine - or any type of 'wake up energy' based beverages. Caffeine is considered a drug and does produce withdrawal effects such as migraine and headaches.
Another option over regular soda is to choose a reduced sugar juice which contains 1/2 the amount of real sugar but no sugar substitute in your daily diet. These lower calorie juices typically contain about 50 calories per serving.
While sodas containing sugar substitute contain zero calories at times there is nothing that's like the original flavors of regular soda.
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SODA CHOICE | Units | 1 fl oz ------- 30.8g | 1 can or bottle (12 fl oz) ------- 370g | 1 can or bottle (16 fl oz) ------- 493g |
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| Root Beer Calories |
kcal
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13
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152
| 202
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| Root Beer Sugars, total |
g
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3.26
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39.22
| 52.26
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| Cream Soda Calories |
kcal
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16
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189
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252
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| Cream Soda Sugars, total |
g
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4.11
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49.34
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65.70
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| Ginger Ale Calories |
kcal
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10
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124
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166
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| Ginger Ale Sugars, total |
g
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2.65
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31.84
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42.46
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| Lemon Lime Soda Calories |
kcal
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13
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151
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202
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| Lemon Lime Sugars, total |
g |
3.14
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37.60
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50.13
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| Cola Calories | kcal
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11
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136
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182
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| Cola Sugars, total | g |
2.75
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33.01 |
44.04
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