Now I think I've come very close to hearing it all. Diet Coke is adding vitamins to its current formula and sweetening it up. While this doesn't do me any favors, I'm sure you will might find this tidbit interesting.

Coincidentally, drinking a can now - not because I bought it but because my assistant bought some on a lark. It tastes a little bit different than regular Diet Coke - the article you linked to says it's a bit sweeter but I don't think so. I'm trying hard not to think it has an "after taste" because of the vitamins and minerals. The amount is modest anyway - 25% RDA of Niacin, 25% of B5, 25% of B12, 15% of Magnesium and 15% of Zinc. And, of course, only 40 mg (2%) sodium.

I've only seen marketing stories on it - nothing about how the carbonation or caffeine or other chemicals might affect absorption of the minerals. Hey - if you're gonna drink Diet Coke anyway, might as well get a bit more than just artificially sweetened carbonated brown water, right?

I tried it, just because I'm a whore to marketing. It wasn't that bad. Sure, it's kinda laughable, but I sort of agree with Kevin ... why not?

Although I'm more of a Coke Zero man myself. Not that's some good drinkin'.

Finally, I had my first drink of Diet Coke +Plus and found it to be ok. It's not a different taste from plain Diet Coke. Try it and decide for yourself.

I was forced to buy one of these vitamin-enriched DCs while on a road trip a couple of weeks ago - it may be the most foul-tasting thing since Diet Coke with Lemon! Give me my original drink of the gods (real Diet Coke) and leave the marketers to run the full-strength version!

i tried it. it's fine. seems like a few extra vitamins can't be a bad idea. i actually am surprised more by the packaging. all the fruity colors seems to make it sit outside the norm for the Coke brand family. i wouldn't be surprised if that influences it's taste perception to some extent.

As long as they have artificial sweeteners in them they will not be "Going Healthy" at all. Aspartame/Nutrasweet is one of the scariest artificial sweeteners ever created in a lab. If you haven't seen the documentary "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" I would suggest you get a copy and see it. It will freak you out about the dangers of Aspartame and just "how" it was approved by the FDA.


And don't even get me started on Splenda!!! That's in your Coke Zero and Pepsi One. They are also sneaking into every day products that you don't even know about. Look for the ingredient "sucralose" in some of your favorite products. That is Splenda in hiding.

Healthy Coke? They'd have to add a wheelbarrow-full of vitamins to each bottle to counteract all the negative effects of that shit!

Just another one of these new publicity campaigns wherein the junk food merchants add 0.001 micro-speck of a new ingredient, call it 'New and Improved', claim that it will work miracles for the consumer, and then sit back as the tabloid news media fall over themselves reporting this 'breaking health news', thereby giving the junk peddlers two weeks of publicity for...nothing. And the lemmings drink it up.

Regardless of the recipe, there is NOTHING healthy about Coke.

Haven't tried the vitamin Diet Coke. But I'll echo the Coke Zero love. But my fav is Pepsi One! Really good stuff.