Anybody tried the 7-Up "10" products?

[P&R Fan]

I really like diet pop. I like the fact it has no calories, but I actually prefer the taste. Missus Fan's brothers both think it will kill me dead. One of them gravely told me ants won't eat it. Gee, I always want to know if something I drink is tasty to ants. He also said it will put a white film on my brain. I told him I almost never show my brain to anybody.
But 7-Up has a new product, the "10" sodas. They make Dr. Pepper and my favorite, A&W Root Beer. It has 10 calories, and for the life of me I can't tell the difference between this and regular. Anybody else like it?
Jim

 

[Squarebutt]

My wife loves the root beer, too. Now I'll have to tell her, "This your brain on diet root beer."

 

[P&R Fan]

When diet pop first came out about 40 years ago it tasted NASTY.
I really like the flavor of most diet pop now, but this new 10 stuff tastes just like regular.
Jim

 

[Kanewpadle]

I was a hard core diet pepsi drinker for years. But now I may have one or two a month.

Lost a few pounds when I cut back. But the primary reason I cut back was stomach/digestive problems.

I firmly believe that if you drink too much of it, it will have negative effects eventually.

 

[dmar]

Haven't tried it, and 100% sure that I won't. These artificial sweetener chemicals are poison to your body. Linked to serious health issues (including brain tumors), highly addictive, and proven to promote weight gain (very ironic). Read up on this stuff, and you may feel differently about putting in your body.

Some people tend to get snarky about this warning, but I do it anyway, out of good conscious. Free country, YMMV.

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[truckemup97]

I used to drink 6-8 cans of Diet Dr. Pepper. Now I've switched to tea, which in another thread I learned will also kill me. I haven't tried the "10" products, but if they taste like regular, I'll pass. After years of drinking diet, regular is just too sweet for me.

 

[straightshooter1]

It's Coke Zero for me. Closest thing to the real Coca Cola and much better than Diet Coke.

Down here in Florida, it'll prolly be several months or years before we see this new 10 stuff. We really don't see a lot of 7 Up products either, maybe a couple or four six packs on the soda aisle when there's fifty or more Cokes and the same amount of Pepsis.

But, if and when, I'll give it a try.

Bob

 

[BaldEagle1313]

I tried the "10" product once, and that was enough. Yuck.

Last July I made the decision to stop drinking soda like it was water. No more Diet Pepsi. I'll have a root beer with my food if I'm out at a burger place or something, but no more 72 ounces per day of diet soda. I feel better, my grocery bill is less, and the bags my groceries are in weigh a lot less, too.

I have a Brita filter, and I drink water. Oh, and I dropped 10 pounds.

 

[Model 19 6"]

They have come out with the 10 in Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I for one like it.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I like it, most diet soda including the "10" products are not good for your metabolism in large doses and the 10 products still have some sugar, so a little goes a long way. My physician says that truvia and stevia are the best artificial sweeteners to use. Of course they are just catching on in major soft drink producers I have lately acquired a taste for Zero Sprite. Check out the "Coca Cola Life" with Stevia.

 

[internet troll]

They've been out in Pa for a couple of years. The Dr Pepper 10 is normally my go to soda when I drink it.

 

[kaaskop49]

The "cola wars" are intense in the Valley, according to the vendors. Name brand 2-liters are always less than $1.50 in supermarkets, .99 at least once monthly. Hickok 45's no-name targets: .59 all the time!

The "10" products are just another niche 7-Up is trying to fill; it shouldn't exist except the competition already has 3 or more levels of sweetness. I personally see no reason for the "10s" as they are little different than the previous diet brands.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[boatme99]

I might have 6 sodas a year.
I think I can pop for real sugar.

 

[P&R Fan]

Regular "pop" as we call it here in Iowa is too sweet for me, although I love A&W Root Beer. I have heard all the stories about the sweeteners in diet pop being bad for you. I don't care, I just like the taste, and I can do without the 150 calories per can.
Lots of stuff I do is bad for me. I am fully aware I am going to take the Dirt Nap someday. Might as well enjoy life while I'm here.
Jim

 

[boatme99]

Most sodas are sweetened with corn syrups.
Try a Jarrito. They still use real sugar.

 

[dmar]

Most sodas are sweetened with corn syrups.
Try a Jarrito. They still use real sugar.

Very true, I like Coke that's made with real sugar. That's what they have down in Mexico.

I also get it at Home Depot, in the contractor check-out refrigerator. They've got Coke and Sprite in the bottle, made with real sugar. I suppose that's one of the side benefits of this massive immigrant/illegal immigrant labor force that has entrenched itself in our country.

 

[chaparrito]

Once in a very great while; every two or three months, I'll splurge and buy a 16 oz. Glass bottled Coke bottled in Mexico. No high fructose corn syrup, pure sugar. It's far less sweet and cloying. The mini-mart next to our feed store sells them from a big ice filled tub. Suck that baby down in about three big draughts. A real treat on a hot day.
The news on diet soda is it isn't any better for your than the sweet stuff and may in fact encourage weight gain, especially for seniors. I do enough damage with my other bad habits, soda pop is one I can take or leave.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

If you're gonna drink a non diet sods instead try a beer. Same calories per serving and believe it or not, the beer is MUCH better for you.

 

[soFlaNative]

If you're gonna drink a non diet sods instead try a beer. Same calories per serving and believe it or not, the beer is MUCH better for you.

Mutt'tilda and I heartily agree.

 

[chief38]

I gave up on Soda about 10 yeas ago. I know regular is filled with way too much sugar and I don't need the extra calories and the diet stuff was repulsive to me. Therefore my drink of choice is now Seltzer (.02 cents plain). The only exception is when I have a sour stomach once or twice a year and I'll drink some warm Canada Dry Ginger Ale.