What is the difference between artificial sweeteners and sugar?

Artificial sweeteners (sometimes called sugar alternatives) can replace sugar in foods and drinks to give you a sweet taste but with few or no calories. They are often several hundred times sweeter than sugar. So compared to sugar, only a little is needed for the same sweet taste.

We use sugar substitutes because while sugar in moderation is fine, too much sugar isn’t good for anyone and we know that people have concerns about eating or drinking too much sugar.

We offer a wide range of lower and no sugar drinks and we are focused on making more people aware of the choice that we offer. r

Do you use artificial sweeteners?

Yes. Oour aim is to make refreshing, low and zero sugar carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) more easily accessible and bring more choice such as organic tea, grab-and-go coffee, juice drinks and waters to more people in more places.

We have and will continue to reformulate our drinks in response to changing consumer tastes: our aim is to help people reduce the sugar they consume while offering them a choice of great tasting drinks: 

Why does The Coca‑Cola Company use artificial sweeteners?

Sugar alternatives (sweeteners) are used by a large number of food and drink manufacturers to create great tasting products that are low in calories and offer consumers choice.   Oour aim is to make refreshing, low and zero sugar carbonated soft drinks more easily accessible, whilst offering people choice.  

Learn more about our brand portfolio and what's in our products:

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/sustainability/in-our-products