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22.04.2023 - 08:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It probably comes as no surprise that Coca Cola is the most popular soft drink in the world. While there are now more flavours than ever before, Diet Coke is right up there as one of the biggest sellers.
But like everything else at the moment, prices have increased dramatically, forcing shoppers to either ditch the drinks altogether, or look for cheaper alternatives to the big brand.
A 2-litre bottle of the stuff costs around £2, with boxes of 10 cans costing £4.69 in Tesco and Aldi, which works out at 47p a can.
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With that in mind, we decided to give the supermarket own brand diet colas a try, to see which one is closest to the real deal.
Not all stores sell their own brand in cans - Morrisons and Asda only have bottles and Lidl's were out of stock - so we were trying a mixture of both.
First up was Tesco and while I was impressed with the price tag, 12 cans for £3.10, or a bottle for 45p, none of us liked the taste. Too much flavouring and not enough fizz was the general consensus. It tasted a bit like those Cola Cup drinks you get with a little straw to pierce through the plastic lid.
Others were fizzier - both Asda and Morrisons - but lacking in flavour, and none of us were particularly keen on the taste of Lidl's Freeway.
It was two others that impressed us in equal measure though. The kids preferred the Sainsbury's one, while us adults preferred the Aldi version.
I'd say I'm the biggest Diet Coke fan out of us all and while it's not exactly identical, Aldi's Vive is not far off - and for the cost, it has to be our overall winner.
At 45p a bottle it's a quarter of the price of the real thing, while the cans, which work out at 25p, are almost
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