Coca-cola will be launching their newest addition to their family of fizzy drinks: Coca-cola Life will have fewer calories and less sugar than the original, but will taste sweeter than the diet version.
Marketed in a green can and with green labels that make it distinctive, Coca-cola Life will only have 89 calories per can, it is reported, and will supplement some of the sugar with stevia extract, one of the newest and most promising sugar alternatives.
Made from a leaf of the stevia plant from South America, stevia is a low calorie sweetener, stevia is said to supplement the sugar in the drink, reducing the original Coca-cola 35g of sugar and reducing it to 22.1g per 330ml.
An adults Guideline Daily amount (GDA) is set at 90g, per day. This means that one can of this lower sugar alternative is still almost 25% of your daily intake. However, a recent study found that diet soft drinks could aid greater weight loss than water.
There are so many different alternative sugar supplements coming out now, that the industry has boomed. It is reported to be a 6.3bn pound industry, and set to reach 8bn by 2018.
Coca-cola life is being trialled in South America and should find its way across the globe after this September.
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