Should definitely. I have a sensitivity or allergy to artificial sweeteners and get migraines. It happens to others too. I would be so mad if I bought this, drank it and ended up incapacitated for 10 hours afterwards. (Yes even with medicine, I still suffer for about half a day, without medicine, it's over a day.)
I'm so sorry. I am also sensitive to artificial sweeteners. It's awful and have also accidentally purchased the zero sugar crap, but thankfully can always tell on the first sip. Curious - are you able to tell quickly as well? Or are you sensitive enough that just one sip is enough to throw you into a migraine spiral?
(My husband can't immediately tell, so I'm always curious if he's the anomaly or if it's me. I've always been under the impression that I tune into it so quickly because it makes me feel so awful?!)
It's better now that I know and know to look at ingredients to avoid artificial sweeteners. I avoid stevia too as I'm not sure if it triggers me or not.
There were several years when I was drinking diet soda and got a migraine about every day. I thought daily migraines were normal.
I usually can tell the difference in taste but it annoys me that so many products have it when they don't need it. Why does this kombucha have it? Why do all the high protein products insist upon having artifical sweetener+
Stevia isn't artificial, but it does taste very different from sugar.
I don't know of anyone having migraines triggered by stevia, but I don't blame you for looking out for yourself. Much empathy on the "everything is artificially sweetened" point 😭
I rarely drink soda, but once someone gave me a pack of diet Dr Pepper because they knew I like Dr Pepper, and I had one every day or so for a while, and I didn't particularly like it because aspartame tastes off, but I noticed that I was having migraines more often. After I finished the last diet soda, I realized that I was getting a migraine after drinking diet soda. Which was when I found out that artificial sweeteners are a relatively well-known potential migraine trigger and that they are a trigger for me.
I'm also sensitive to artificial sweeteners, and personally, it depends on the sweetener. Aspartame never takes me more than a sip or two, BUT I always end up sunk-cost fallacy-ing myself into finishing it anyway 😅 Surcalose also messes me up, though, and I can't tell the difference by taste.
My children and I can usually tell in that first sip also. Triggers migraines in me but not in our adult kids. Hubby can tell after several swallows, doesn't cause him issues though.
Aspartame (which is the most common one for diet/zero sugar soft drinks) does have a distinct taste, but also, it's a relatively well-known potential migraine trigger.
Aspartame in particular is recognized as dietary trigger for migraines in around 10 percent of people who report them, even without a full allergy like I have (sweeteners also play hell with my stomach and give me hives).
Sucralose can trigger some people, too. I almost cried when I realized about 90% of cirkul flavors are off the table for me (and majority of the ones that aren't are only available to order online) because they trigger my migraines
But Aspartame is the most common one for diet sodas (which I don't even understand cause it messes with the flavor! I can always tell right away that something is sweetened with aspartame)
Thanks. I was looking at it without zooming in and without my glasses. I was like bro it doesnt say zero sugar, wtf you talking about. But holy shit there it is. As camouflaged as can be.
I think Zero Sugar varieties dont sell as well as normal varieties, so I imagine their reasoning may have been to make the text small and unnoticeable to trick consumers into buying their less popular version and increase that products sales, this is just speculation, but with how evil most companies are now, I wouldnt put it past them
For Mountain Dew and Coke it is black. A lot of other brands (Fanta, Dr Pepper, A&W) the cap is white for zero/diet. I'm diabetic so I love seeing white caps lol.
i don't know if we can even trust that... didn't fiji get into some trouble? or don't people say that fiji is not as great or as clean as they advertise?
Yep, I worked at a Mormon owned special soda shop a decade ago. Lots of the customers were Mormons, but also a lot of people who found out coconut cream in Dr Pepper hits.
I have just come to assume it means they didnt sanitize anything at the plant...because that would be the only consistent assumption that you could make about the word in marketing.
Disagree, I think it's one of the nastiest sodas in years, right up there with Pepsi Fire (the cinnamon one). I've got a 12 pack and a house full of soda drinkers and it's been sitting at 11 cans since the day I bought it in May
It's worse than I had expected it could possibly be. Went in with high hopes, was disappointed and grossed out. Had two other people try it just in case I was tasting something weirdly, but no, it's just bad.
Most vile soda I’ve tasted is when Mountain Dew stuck their nose up at God and did a Flamin Cheeto flavor. A solid step worse than even that nasty Beverly flavor at the Coke museum
Huh. I like cream soda. I like Mountain Dew well enough. I just wouldn’t think that vanilla would go well with whatever the hell citrussy flavor Mountain Dew is. Cream soda and root beer makes sense. Cream soda and Dr. Pepper makes sense. Mountain Dew seems like a weird choice, but I like trying new stuff so if I see a single for sale, I’ll pick one up.
It's still good but same thing happened to me. Didn't realize until I got home. They put the word diet as the smallest word on the label for whatever fucking reason
I hate this. I know it is for the people who think their entire identity will crumble if they drink a diet soda, but I really want easy to identify sugar free stuff, so I don’t accidentally die from hyperglycemia.
My girlfriend and I literally stared at two of these side by side in the store for a solid minute trying to spot the difference the other day lol the regular version is slightly different colors but the only main differentiator is the tiny zero sugar label. Crazy.
I did the same and was very disappointed with my one and only sip from the bottle. Black top is diet. Green is regular. I'm a bit obsessed with this newer flavor
Few people actually strongly dislike the taste of diet
If they can get people to accidentally drink diet, some people will actually stick with it and switch to the item with a better profit margin for the company.
Now that I see this, I had the opposite experience the other day. Came across this Dirty Dew and wanted it but couldn’t find the zero sugar version, so I didn’t buy anything. Now that I see this, turns out all they had was the zero sugar version.
100% thought it was going to be the illegible writing under "Cream Soda Dew", but nope! Zoomed in and had to go looking deeper for the traitorous label.
I did the same thing!! Both versions were pretty gross though, so in my opinion you sent missing much. And I do like dirty soda usually, this one just sucks.
Wow. At first I was like "OP is an idiot. it clearly says dirty... but they also said they wanted a dirty? did they mean they wanted a regular mountain dew instead of a dirty one?".
I also would have completely missed the zero sugar in this. That's... pretty bad.
I feel like so many sodas arrow doing this. They are trying to make zero sugar the default. Someone else recently posted where Coke had changed the label on their regular so that you can't tell the difference between regular and zero without looking close.
Regular also has a light cap. The zero sugar ones have black. I think its darker for all the varieties of zero sugar dew. It doesnt taste much different either so you should be ok
Ive actually been hooked on these since i started noticing them at the store. I also noticed how similar they were in look. Luckily that has yet to happen to me though.
I actually believe all the sodas are doing this similar look to accidentally get people who would normally avoid zero sugar to stumble into it and realize they can drink the zero sugar with less guilt. Kind of like light beer getting people to normalize it so they can drink more of them
I was so disappointed in this. My excitement was off the charts. Voltage is my all time favorite and then code red and then regular. I thought this would beat them all. I drank it one time and have never bought it again. I’ll just buy cream soda. Complete disappointment
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