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by meristem 1086 days ago
What is the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke?
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Diet Coke gets marketed more towards women and Coke Zero gets marketed more towards men.

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/should-mens-products-fear-a-woman...

Hm. How could I possibly have missed all gendered marketing for either of these products? Coke Zero tastes much more like normal Coke, Diet Coke tastes like its own different thing. I drank both, and associated neither with men or women.
Coke Zero uses a mix of aspartame and acesulfame-K, Diet Coke is just aspartame.
Diet Coke is modeled more after Pepsi in flavor than Coke. It’s basically New Coke but w/o the sugar.

Coke Zero is an actual Diet version of Coke.

About 10 calories and the taste.