Diet Coke
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 Diet Coke facts

• Unveiled on July 8, 1982 and introduced in the United States on August 9, it was the first new brand since 1886 to use the Coca-Cola trademark
• The product quickly overtook the company's existing diet cola, Tab, in sales
• Diet Coke was sweetened with aspartame, an artificial sweetener, after the sweetener became available in the United States in 1983; to save money, this was originally in a blend with saccharin
• After Diet Rite cola advertised its 100 percent use of aspartame, and the manufacturer of NutraSweet (then G
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• Searle & Company) warned that the NutraSweet trademark would not be made available to a blend of sweeteners, Coca-Cola switched the formula to 100 percent NutraSweet
• Diet Coke from fountain dispensers still contains some saccharin to extend shelf life
• In other countries in which cyclamates are not banned (as they were in the US in 1970), Diet Coke or Coca-Cola light may be sweetened with a blend containing cyclamates, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium
• In 2005, under pressure from retailer Walmart (which was impressed with the popularity of Splenda sweetener), the company released a new formulation called "Diet Coke sweetened with Splenda"
• Sucralose and acesulfame potassium replace aspartame in this version