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The Diet Soda You Should Keep Out Of Your Shopping Cart

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BY CAMRYN TEDER

Chowhound's own Robyn Blocker sat down and ranked 15 popular diet sodas from worst to best to help potential shoppers. The biggest loser according to her was Diet Mountain Dew.
Diet Mountain Dew is lacking across the board in both categories of flavor and aroma. Blocker detected no enticing smells as she poured it into a glass, and the flavor was lacking.
The drink only gave hazy notes of orange and lime, and even those hints of flavor faded fast. As Blocker put bluntly in her ranking, "I was left wondering what the point was."
Mountain Dew lovers should try Mountain Dew Zero Sugar instead. The drink is said to be crisper overall and have a more citrus-forward flavor, so it might be a fit replacement.