i mean it Tastes... but there's Nothing in it on the label. so i have to imagine whatever they put in there to make it Taste is actually Something, just in small enough quantities that it legally qualifies as Nothing. i don't know the first thing about food science, i just know that someone told me artificial sweeteners were bad for me as a kid, and whenever i see a blank nutritional label for something that isn't actually exactly just water i get a little suspicious