Coca-Cola Life

Trilla90

It's not officially released until the new year but i just bought a can in cost-cutter first time i've seen them over here. I haven't tried it yet but it's meant to taste the same as normal coke only with half the calories. Just letting people know if they wanna try it early..

A new Coca Cola brand with green credentials, Coca Cola Life, is to go on sale in Ireland at the end of January next year.

Piloted in Argentina and Chile in 2013 and recently launched in Great Britain, this lower-calorie cola contains a third less sugar and a third fewer calories than regular cola.

It contains stevia leaf extract, which is naturally sourced from the stevia plant, native to South America.

Coca-Cola first introduced stevia to Ireland in 2012 when it re-launched Sprite with stevia – reducing the sugar in that drink by one third.

All Coca Cola Life packs will be fully recyclable and the 330ml can will contain recycled materials.

Differentiated by its green packaging, Coca-Cola Life is the most recent example in a series of initiatives by the company “to inspire happier, healthier lives”.

It delivers on the company’s well-being commitments to provide consumers with increased choice of reduced, low and no-calorie beverage options and also to reduce the average calories per litre in its range of sparkling drinks by 5pc by the end of 2014.

Its launch in this country follows Coca-Cola Ireland’s investment in Dublinbikes to enable the expansion of the scheme earlier this year.

The partnership with the Dublin City Council and JC Decaux will see the Coca-Cola Zero ‘dublinbikes’ double the number of stations to 100 and treble the number of bikes available – up to 1,500.

OU812

Doesn't look right to me. I think they should have had *some* red on the packaging

cupthehand1

Boots & SuperDrug also have it, VERY hard to tell the difference between it and original Coke

Chance The Fapper

I had some in Maguires beside Grafton street, didn't like it as much as normal coke, tastes a bit watered down

Thargor

Interesting, seems to be the best attempt at copying the original taste so far, Zero is fecking disgusting...

OU812

Had a bottle yesterday, threw half it out & bought a can of full fat flavour to wash the taste away

Thargor

Thats that then

Tabitharose

tried it a few weeks ago (got it in boots) not a fan AT ALL saw dealz had big bottles for anyone wanting to try it

MagicMarker

Saw a can of this recently, didn't know wtf it was. Bought a can of cherry coke instead.

Clarie29

I love it

Spaniel heaven

Hell noooooooooooooo

squonk

Tropicana released a range of Stevia sweetened juices last year or the year before. I bought a pack to try it out. Disgusting! I had trouble finishing it and would have flushed it down the sink if it wasn't for the fact it was expensive to begin with. I'm not very hopeful of Coke Life being that nice after that.

hfallada

squonk wrote: »

Tropicana released a range of Stevia sweetened juices last year or the year before. I bought a pack to try it out. Disgusting! I had trouble finishing it and would have flushed it down the sink if it wasn't for the fact it was expensive to begin with. I'm not very hopeful of Coke Life being that nice after that.

I tried them too and they are disgusting. In Germany to reduce Calories in juice, its extremely common to mix half juice with half sparkling water(Germans love sparkling water). They can it Schorle. It actually tastes really good

Mathrew

Thargor wrote: »

Interesting, seems to be the best attempt at copying the original taste so far, Zero is fecking disgusting...

I don't like Zero, it taste like nothing for me.

Red Wolf

I really like it, as for diet and zero urge muck

dloob

Just tried some, it's a bit different but not too bad.
I usually can't stand diet drinks, they all taste like they are artificial sweeter flavor, it just overpowers any other taste.
This though doesn't have that, but it's not just like the real thing either.

Chip Whitley

I tried it today. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I didn't like it at all. Too similar to Coke Zero for my liking. I've cut almost all fizzy drinks out of my diet, but like to have a can of coke now and again. Think I'll stick with the normal Coke as a treat.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Dragging up an old the thread... But has the life version been removed from the Irish market? I know it was removed from the UK and a few others but cannot find any reference to it being removed from the Irish market.

RacoonQueen

Bowen Cuddly Goalie wrote: »

Dragging up an old the thread... But has the life version been removed from the Irish market? I know it was removed from the UK and a few others but cannot find any reference to it being removed from the Irish market.

Yep was removed from the Irish market along with the UK. I loved it so was raging. Back to coke zero and less occassionally the normal coke for me now. Enjoyed gorging on life when I was in Italy though.