Diet Mountain Dew Code Red

By: Tanya Taylor, PhD | Apr 7, 2006

Diet Mountain Dew Code Red is a cherry flavored soda, which is a nice departure from the usual dark colas and citrus sodas. You can taste the light cherry flavor in Code Red, but it's not a very sweet cola, in fact, it's not as sweet as Diet Cherry Coke, and I actually prefer the Diet Mountain Dew Code Red. But with a name like Code Red, I expected more 'bite' - more 'uumphh' - more 'pizzazz'! I mean Code Red implies Watch Out! - but this lightly flavored cherry cola was anything but memorable. How about a little tabasco sauce or something to spice things up a bit?

Other than the cherry taste, there is little else in the way of flavor of Code Red. It's not sweet, and has a similar taste to most of the other aspartame /acesulfame K soda taste - think Diet Coke-ish. I think Diet Code Red tastes better than Diet Coke, not as good as Diet Pepsi - somewhere in between. And like most diet sodas, there are no calories, no sugar, no vitamins. Overall, my favorite diet soda is still Diet Sprite Zero.

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