When you are offered beverage service on an airplane, the options tend to be limited to cola and lemon-flavored sodas, but the supermarket aisles are teeming with sugar-free fizzy choices, like root beer! This ice cream parlor favorite does come in diet versions; Diet A&W Root Beer is known for being super-sweet, though, so you won't need to add that scoop of vanilla. Diet Barqs and Diet Mug Root Beer are also popular options. If you are trying to avoid artificial additives, EatThis suggests instead trying Zevia Ginger Root Beer, which is sweetened with stevia.
While we're talking about nostalgic sodas, we cannot forget cream soda and ginger ale. Diet A&W Cream Soda is one of the more popular choices, while Zevia and other craft soda brands make stevia-sweetened cream sodas and ginger ales, just as they do for root beer. But not all of these sodas may delight you. Virgil's Diet Cream was deemed "not fit for human consumption" by Art of Manliness... so take that under advisement! As for ginger ales, both Spoon University and Esquire ranked regular Canada Dry Ginger Ale as the number one ginger ale on the market, but Canada Dry Ginger Ale Zero Sugar received stunningly negative reviews on the brand's website. Drinking the diet version may end up completely derailing your get-healthy plans by tempting you to toss away the calorie-free can and just enjoy some regular, sugary bubbles.
