You may be wondering what this new green labeled coke bottle is all about, Coca Cola have now launched a new 'healthy' cola, with fewer calories and more 'natural' properties.
The taste of the cola does not differentiate much from the original, some say it tastes oily while others enjoy it much the same as the original soda they are used too.
Please try not to get confused with that they are letting us believe, I feel the 'life' is more to do with the award winning fully recyclable PlantBottle rather than what is inside. It is fantastic to have a fully recyclable bottle but why not manufacture all of their products with the materials used for Cola Life and concentrate on what is inside. The consumer can chose their choice more wisely rather than being given misleading information.
The Coca Cola Life is their first product to be sweetened with sugar and Stevia which helps the taste of the product without adding too many calories. While advertising as low calorie, a bottle of 600ml Cola Life has a whopping 108 calories, now that doesn't seem very low calorie to me, although less than the original bottle. Stevia has been used in other familiar brands but not seen in the Coca Cola products before. Coca Cola Claim as the sweeteners are from a plant in the Chrysanthemum family they are 'natural sources'.
Why Stevia?
Aspartame has been the currently known sweetener within the drinks industry for years, but some speculations have been made as they have been linked to cause cancer within some animal studies, but it has been approved by the US food and drug administration.
Stevia was rejected when first attempted to come into the food industry as it was linked to causing genetic mutations in rats, a different, purer form of Stevia has now been accepted, but the FDA still recommends that human consumption is not too high, I doubt a bottle of Cola Life would do much harm but drinking a lot would surely not be too wise.
Now I am not saying it is good or bad, it is a great fact that it has less calories from the original with a fully recyclable bottle, but as we do not have much knowledge or information on Stevia and it's effects I think I will stick to a classic bottle of water just to be on the safe side, if you do try the new Cola Life please give me your reviews.
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