Here's What Coke Starlight Tastes Like

Here’s What Coke Starlight Preferences Like

It is really supposed to taste like house, but I don’t know what space tastes like.

So there I was, standing in line at the grocery retail outlet, when a sparkly soda bottle caught my eye. Something deep down in my lizard mind said, “Ooh, shiny,” so I resolved to acquire it. It was a bottle of Coke Starlight, which is apparently a brand name-new taste from Coca-Cola (and just one of the zero-calorie versions).

I’m a pretty die-tricky Eating plan Coke addict, but I love Coke Zero and comprehensive-sugar Coke, too, so I was excited to give this new taste a try. I do not normally go for a flavored Coke, but I will say that I cherished Cherry Coke back again in the working day.


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That’s just just one of lots of cans of Diet Coke filling up my fridge. I will not consume espresso, but I do drink these. Religiously.

Initial point I recognized with this Coke Starlight was the color. There is certainly a reddish-pink tint to the drink that’s kinda very when you look at it in the light-weight.


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Reminds me of Cherry Coke a very little bit.

If you happen to be questioning what flavor this is…uh, I am too. The bottle suggests it is really “space-flavored,” which was admittedly what actually marketed me on obtaining it. What the heck does place flavor like? And in soda kind, none the significantly less?

A peep at the substances doesn’t expose substantially both. It pretty cleverly suggests that there are “purely natural flavors” and “fruit and vegetable juice for color.” The “vegetable” element is intriguing, but given that it is really just for colour, I have to think that probably they utilised a minimal bit of beet juice or a little something to get that very crimson shade.

A small poking close to on the web revealed that this is in fact a minimal-time taste, aspect of Coke’s “Creations” line (which I assume will involve other fanciful beverages), and it also will come in a full-sugar selection. They only appeared to have the zero calorie 1 in the cooler at the checkout line when I bought mine.

So, I guess the only way to determine out the taste is to attempt it! I took a sip, and…

…I have absolutely NO notion what it preferences like. It’s vaguely identical to Faygo RedPop, but with some sort of spice to it. It just about preferences like cinnamon sugar, mixed with cherries or vanilla? It is really indescribable. I cannot pretty put my finger on what exactly it is. It undoubtedly has a sweetness to it, and I scarcely flavor the aspartame that you usually style with Coke Zero. In point, I can’t convey to if I style the aspartame at all… I assume the “starlight” addresses all of it up.

It has a odor to it that in some way reminds me of my childhood. I ought to have eaten or drunk a little something as a kid of the ’90s in Michigan that reminds me of this. Weirdly, when I smelled it, the very first detail that arrived to brain was Chuck E Cheese??? My doing the job idea is that it does without a doubt smell like Faygo RedPop, which I certainly would have had at a friend’s birthday social gathering back then.


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(The fizz is also pink, if you happen to be thinking.)

Hunting on Twitter, individuals seem to be to consider it tastes like graham crackers. I could see that! I do not assume it truly is like, “Wow, that is unquestionably graham crackers,” but there is a hint of it.


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(I’m also observing men and women say that it tastes like cotton candy, or marshmallows, which would show that possibly it can be meant to be kinda like s’mores without the need of the chocolate? Then again, other individuals are saying it preferences like spicy drugs or vape juice, so your mileage may perhaps vary.)

Overall, I have no concept what to make of this taste. It truly is undoubtedly ~attention-grabbing~, and I consider you could make some genuinely artistic and most probably tasty cocktails with it. But I do not know if I could drink a full 20-ounce bottle of it, just for the reason that of the amount of sweetness and that thriller taste. I feel if you like Actually sweet soda (or Faygo RedPop), then this could possibly be for you. As for me, I think I’ll adhere to my Eating plan Cokes right until the subsequent “generation” will come alongside.

If any of you out there occur to try out Coca-Cola Starlight and determine out what the heck it preferences like, remember to allow me know in the reviews.