The "zero" beverages are usually sweetened with Sucrolose primarily. Not Aspertame. Though I've seen some with primarily Sucrolose and also Aspertame as a secondary ingredient.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Mountain dew has aspartame

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The original selling point was partly that it wasn't aspartame, but I think that's changing to the mixture since some people react poorly to sucrolose.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The original selling point was partly that it wasn’t aspartame,

Was it? I thought it was just an angle to use a better tasting sweetener than Aspertame. Sucrolose tastes much closer to sugar than Aspertame does, probably because Sucrolose's chemical structure is very close to sucrose.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah some of the Diet brands were running as "aspartame free" when it was gaining popularity