Would cola be healthier if It had zero sugar, extra fiber and be caffeine free ?

Probably it would be healthier, but it wouldn’t be Coke.

It would semi-Coke with a bunch of additives.

Cola that had the consistency of mashed potatoes. A very interesting concept.

@kritiper I don’t know if I should yum! Or yuck!. Lol.

If you’re constipated just drink some Metamucil.

I’d like to see sugar-free drinks use far less alternate sweeteners. Some of them are bitter-tasting and overdone,.

If there was a better formula, the cola companies would be using it already. Do you know something that they don’t? Coca Cola tried to introduce the New Coke and it was a flop.

Just go ahead& kill me!!! Cola is cola partly because it isn’t healthy. Start adding healthy stuff & it is NO longer cola…it’s healthy crap!!! I’ve been working very hard to get off cola but I don’t want to be forced to do it cold turkey. Cutting me off from my cola is about the same thing as shutting down your electricity so you can no longer read…NOT FUNNY!!! ;(-

@LostInParadise

New Coke wasn’t exactly a different product, however. It was simply a slight variation of the same sugary shit cola companies had been selling for a century at that point. The only misstep Coca-Cola really made was to underestimate how ridiculously emotionally attached people get to brands. The same folks who expressed a preference for the taste of New Coke then reacted like the Coca-Cola Company’s CEO just ran over their dog when told “this is regular Coca-Cola from here on”.

It reminds me of this SNL skit from a few years back when this couple (played by Adam Driver and Cecily Strong) react near violently when told the coffee they were enjoying was actually from Burger King and not some trendy, upscale coffee house.

@Darth_Algar the difference, in your examples, was that New Coke really did taste bad – flat – when compared to traditional Coke. It wasn’t just the name, it was that they seriously screwed up the taste as well.

I drank Pepsi for several months until they fixed things.

My question has always been -> didn’t Coke do market research? didn’t they do taste testing? How did they decide to release such a shitty product?

They did. Pretty much every taste test they conducted showed a preference for the New Coke.

New Coke definitely didn’t taste flat It was similar to Pepsi, which won all the Pepsi Challenge tests over Coke. It was actually sweeter than Pepsi, when compared side-by-side, but pretty much indistinguishable otherwise,

New Coke actually was preferred over regular Coke or Pepsi. But the summer of 1985, people sure were craving regular Coke, which was no longer available.

Then it would be broccoli

Okra-Cola

As a Coke enthusiast, I can tell you first hand that there was a HUGE difference in the taste of the New Coke & the regular Coke. They never admitted what it was that they changed,but I went through DT’s when they did it!!! Where they made their mistake was to addict millions of customers to a specific recipe & then suddenly change it!!! Had they offered both the old & new versions, many may have switched over willingly; but to just cut us off without warning, gave each of us a reason to revolt…the DT’s was extremely painful!!!

You will definitely crave Coca-cola when its not available and all you can get is Pepsi, even if you sometimes prefer Pepsi. We endured a whole summer without it, back in 1985.

Even when they brought standard Coke back, they still were pushing the New Coke as a thing for young people and “Coke Classic” for the “Old People.” But in a couple of years, New Coke was discontinued, and the moniker “Coke Classic” was dropped just a couple of years ago.

So, to answer the original question—no tampering with the formula of original Coke.