I can officially say that there is now a pack of Diet Coke Plus in my house, and I would like to put forth the question to the Coca-Cola Company: What in the world possessed you people?
Diet Coke Plus is everything you love about Diet Coke products, plus several essential nutrients you want and your body needs. Each 8-ounce serving of Diet Coke Plus provides 15% of your Daily Value for Niacin and vitamins B6 and B12, and 10% for Zinc and Magnesium.
Yeah, I know, I bought it, didn't I? But I was curious, okay?
First of all, vitamins in diet soda* is no new thing, but come on-- they're not supposed to be healthy. They're supposed to be placeholders for things that are even more unhealthy. I seriously shudder to think of what would happen if my Mom got a case of these in her hands.
My mother is probably the biggest Diet Coke addict I have ever met. Throughout the course of a day, she's been known to drink up to eight (EIGHT!) Diet Cokes, and I've never seen a smoker with a worse Jones than when my mom is soda-deprived. She'll seriously leave the house and drive a couple of miles just to get a soda, then come back and be about her business. Not that I have much room to talk-- my fridge is always packed with diet sodas of some type.
At least it's Diet Coke she's addicted to, right? Could be worse.
P.S. Diet Coke Plus is seriously nasty. Too sweet and almost flat. Yecch. Do not, repeat, do not try this at home.
*Yes, I realize that I, as a Southern girl, am not referring to all sodas in question as "Cokes". It weirded me out too when I realized it, but that would be too confusing in this context I think.
