Why do diet drinks still taste like diet drinks?

[captpackrat]

Why is it that even with Splenda, diet colas still taste like diet cola?

I bought a bottle of Diet Rite recently, since it was now made with Splenda, but it still tasted just as bad as ever. I just bought a bottle of Diet Coke with Splenda, hoping the they'd have improved the taste, but no, it doesn't taste anything even remotely like Coke.

Why can't anyone make a diet soda that actually tastes like the non-diet version?

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer, but the shipping would be a killer. Use of corn sweetener does have an economic logic to it, but the economics are also driven by politics. Cane sugar comes from countries that the US cut off from its economic support policies back then, mostly for their leftist political leanings. Corn is a major US product, though in fact beet sugar can be grown here too.