The new release of Coke Zero Sugar got us thinking about soda. While we were making our way through the ingredients label to see how this newly-marketed drink differs from the original Coke Zero, we realized: we could be drinking soda without ingredients like aspartame or Splenda.
There’s a whole world of natural sodas out there ― and by natural we mean free of those questionable artificial sweeteners.
We rounded up 10 great options on the market today. Many of them rely on fruit juice and sparkling water, nothing else. Some add herbs, spices and ginger for an added kick, some use natural cane sugar for sweetness, and others call upon Stevia (which is made from a natural ingredient, but the verdict is still out on whether it’s considered to still be natural, so you use your discretion). But all of them are 100 percent refreshing.
Ingredients: sparkling water, strawberry puree and fresh lime juice.
Ingredients: pear juice concentrate, lightly-carbonated water, organic lemon juice and vanilla bean.
Ingredients: purified carbonated water, unbleached cane sugar, caramelized unrefined cane sugar, citric acid, herbs and spices.
Ingredients: triple filtered carbonated water, white grape juice concentrate, cranberry juice concentrate and vitamin C.
Ingredients: purified sparkling water, cane sugar, grapefruit juice concentrate, orange juice concentrate, natural flavors, citric acid, carrot extract (for color), beta carotene and ester gum.
Ingredients: sparkling filtered water (sweetened by a blend of raw cane sugar, pineapple juice from concentrate and honey), fresh ginger root, lemon and lime juices from concentrate, and spices.
Ingredients: carbonated water, cane sugar, natural caramel color, citric acid, tartaric acid and natural flavors with extracts of kola nuts.
Ingredients: filtered carbonated water, invert cane sugar, natural black cherry flavor and citric acid.
Ingredients: sparkling water, white grape juice concentrate, apple juice concentrate, blueberry juice concentrate, red grape juice concentrate (color), citric acid and natural flavor.
Ingredients: purified carbonated water, pure cane sugar, natural flavor and phosphoric acid.
