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What’s Really Inside a Can of Diet Coke?
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Mar 28, 2025
For years, the silver sheen of a Diet Coke can was a familiar comfort, promising the same crisp taste every time. But have you ever stopped to think about what’s actually inside? A casual comment from a friend made me realize I had never truly questioned the ingredients behind that sugar-free fizz. Listen now as we take a closer look—click here to find out more: What Is Really In A Can Of Diet Coke? (https://reluctantlowcarblife.com/what-is-really-in-a-can-of-diet-coke/) #ReluctantLowCarbLife #DietCoke #SugarFreeDrinks #ArtificialSweeteners #HealthyLiving #LowCarbLife #NutritionFacts #DietSoda Support the show (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2029615/support)
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hi this is Anita from Reluctant Low Carb
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Life this month we're talking a lot
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about addictions multi-processed foods
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and basically talking about why we
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believe in real food versus
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multi-processed food today I want to
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talk about an ultroessed food but an
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ultrocess what I drink it's called
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Coca-Cola sure many of you out there
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know Coca-Cola maybe drink Coca-Cola and
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you might ask yourself the question why
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is Coca-Cola or Coke so addictive do the
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ingredients make it so well the answer
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to that is yes the ingredients make it
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so but the answer is also that CocaCola
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is made to be addictive the if you go on
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to the Coca-Cola Company's website and
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you go you go and you read their vision
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I want you to hear what the Coca-Cola's
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company vision is our vision is to craft
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the brands and choice of drinks that
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people love to refresh them in body and
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spirit and done in ways that create a
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more sustainable business and better
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shared future that makes a difference in
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people's lives communities and our
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planet now I'm not sure who wrote their
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vision but I have yet to figure out how
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Coca-Cola can refresh people in body and
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spirit anyone who's been addicted to
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Coke knows that Coke especially Diet
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Coke can be extremely highly addictive i
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don't know of any ingredients in there
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which can refresh or is good for your
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body or your spirit and a lot of their
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brands which they have besides they do
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have water yes Smart Water but you know
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Smart Water is not their main brand
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their main brand is Coca-Cola and Sprite
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and Diet Coke and Coke Zero those are
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their main brands that they sell so
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basically what Coke is saying is we want
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to sell Coke to everybody around the
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world and while we're doing it we're
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going to pretend that we are refreshing
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their body and spirit and then they say
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that we'll make a difference in people's
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lives communities and our planet
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now if you look at a lot of the garbage
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which is in the ocean and other places a
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lot of it's plastic water bottles and a
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lot of it is Coke cans and Coke plastic
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bottles so first of all I don't see how
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they're making a difference in people's
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lives communities and our planet you
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know Coke's mission is to be basically
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is to be popular they want to be one of
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the top drinks in the world and they
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want to be everywhere in the world they
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want everyone to be drinking Coke they
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don't care if you're addicted they don't
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care if it's good for your health they
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don't care if it's good really for your
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body or your soul what they care about
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really is how much Coke they can sell
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and where they can sell
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it they want to make sure that you are
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drinking the Coke you know um there's a
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couple reasons why Coke and I'm I'm not
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talking here about Diet Coke
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specifically but let's just talk about
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Coca-Cola specifically is addictive one
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is the sugar the other is of course the
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caffeine both two highly addictive
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substances the third is the fizz that
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you have the carbonation that is also
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addictive and then when you have the
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diet soda you have the artificial
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sweeteners which can also be highly
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addictive so pretty much everything is
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in Coca-Cola is addictive so you know
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you have the combination of sugar
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caffeine carbonation and then on top of
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that you have a bunch of other chemicals
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that nobody really knows what they do
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that they also put into the drink to
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make sure that it is even more addictive
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than probably what it needs to be or
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should be and that because it goes back
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to co Coca-Cola's mission or vision for
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the
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company they want to make sure that you
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love the drink and it will refresh you
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in body and spirit so they basically
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really are out to get you addictive
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because the more you drink of Coke the
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more money they make and the more they
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can spread Coke around the world the
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more that money that they as a company
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are going to make
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so this really comes down again to what
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we've been talking about with
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multi-processed foods that the companies
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that are making the ultiprocessed foods
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really want to let you believe that
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they're doing it for your health that
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they're doing it to make you happy that
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they're doing it for your own happiness
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and your own good but in truth they know
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they are not they know that what they
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are giving you is something which is
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highly addictive but they don't care
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because of the fact that for them it's
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about money it's about profit over
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health and profit over people this is
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Anita from Reluctant Low Carb Life thank
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you so much for listening we really do
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appreciate you listening to our podcast
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we we're going to put a link to our our
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blog that we've written about coke and
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coke's addiction you can read more about
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it there if you're interested in it
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we'll put it into the description if
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you'd like to be able to read more about
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that we'd like to thank you for being
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part of our community we really do
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appreciate you joining with us and being
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part of this community thank you so much
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for listening and thank you for our team
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especially Rico helps make this possible
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