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• a  of food have no (or few) calories
  a noncaloric drink

• Seldom has that intrusion generated the outrage caused last month when the FDA announced that it planned to ban noncaloric saccharin as a food additive (PTI, March 21).
• She also suggests "ways of engaging in noncaloric pucker responses" like sipping water through a straw or sucking on ginger root and cinnamon sticks.
• One can well mourn: A book of Kinsey underneath the bough, A jug of noncaloric coke, and thou Beside me, slicing loaves of processed fluff Alas !.