“Wow!
It's very very sweet!
exclaims Kaoutare Soucy, grimacing.
“I had never done that!
This food engineer who officiates at the Agrotec research center in Agen has just placed a very small pinch of pure acesulfame-K on her tongue.
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Does the name of this white powder mean anything to you?
Yet you too have probably already tasted it.
This sweetener mixed in Coca-Cola without sugars (which we often continue to call “zero”, its former name) and in Diet Coke to replace, precisely, sugar.
It is generally combined with another, more famous white powder: aspartame.
"These two ingredients have a sweetening power 200 times greater than that of sugar", explains the woman in a white coat to justify her grimace.
On her laboratory bench, for the purposes of our video report, she reproduced a Coke without sugars.
At the tasting, the result is astonishing.
“We do have a sweet drink… without sugar,” she concludes.
In order to know whether it is better to opt for a Coke based on synthetic sweeteners or for the "original taste" version, with 10.6% sugar, we also interviewed a nutritionist dietician, Marie-Laure André, and organized a blind tasting with award-winning bartender, Léa Rouel, who officiates at the Parisian cocktail bar Cambridge Public House.
To know the result, press “play”.
