Every cola has phosphoric acid listed as an ingredient, except (most) clear sodas, rootbeer, and Whole Foods cola. Stuff like Sprite is safe, but Crystal Pepsi is not -- it contains phosphorus, as listed in the ingredients. So you always have to be careful.
Blue Sky Cola ( $3.99 for 6 cans) Credit: Amazon. Amazon. Technically, this has less grams of sugar than Coke (31 versus 39), but you wouldn't know it just by tasting it. The sweetness, if youβre not used to cane sugar, is almost overpowering. The cola flavor itself is delicious however.
Small fact you probably don't care about, RC Cola is owned by Cott Beverages. Cott also makes Stars and Stripes, rather than dumping and wasting gallons of RC Cola, a simple label change at the labellers and RC Cola is now in bottles labelled as Stars & Stripes Cola. I used to buy RC in 1 liter bottles years because the original price was about 20 cents less than Pepsi & Coke. Some supermarkets used to discount RC 1 Liters as little as 75 cents. Now it costs about the same as the big two. Still it's a good alternative and worth a try. Cherry RC is also really good, if you can find it.Pepsi contains about 5% more sugar than Coca-Cola. So, Pepsi, it is said, is preferred in taste tests. Coca-Cola even performed its own taste tests and got similar results. It is claimed that this, in part, spurred them to introduce New Coke, the sweeter failed reformulation of Coca-Cola that caused great outrage among Coke drinkers.