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Do you remember C2? I don’t typically choose soda as a beverage but I got one for free from a promotion at work. I always hated artificial sweetner flavor but it tasted okay. I took one sip and went to the stock room where my heart suddenly raced and I got nautious and dizzy. It was scary since I was alone in the back. I recovered after a few minutes and never again touched anything diet.
The same feeling of tasting the artificial products in Fanta.
It gives me headaches!
How it feels existing
I can taste it, but I like it more than the sugar. Truly blessed.
I’ve yet to find a fake sugar that doesn’t taste like bile and sadness. Stevia is the best of them, but it’s still basically like choosing to eat the most appealing-look turd when there’s a literal banquet available at the very next table (real sugar)
Stevia is the worst, IMO. It’s got a strange mouth feel.
You know how eating tortilla chips will cut up your mouth a little? They irritate the tongue and throat, making them feel a little gritty? Anything with stevia gives me that “tortilla chip mouth” sensation, even when I haven’t been eating tortilla chips.
Every other artificial sweetener tastes like cancer. Stevia tastes like sand.
Huh. Stevia is one I cannot stand. And Monk fruit. Wish I couldn’t taste those, they wreck anything they touch.
Pretty much all monk fruit sweeteners you can by in stores are a straight up scam, the main ingredient is always an artificial sweetener with monk fruit as a second ingredient.
Agreed. Sometimes I’ll accidentally take a sip of Coke Zero and it takes me a second longer to tell it’s not my drink. So it’s way better than most, but still terrible.
Stevia is terrible for your gut microbiome, it should not be legal.
I think it’s a taste that I just forced myself to acquire lol
I almost never have sugary drinks now
I wish I were able, but I just find the taste truly repugnant and can’t imagine forcing myself through that.
But sugary drinks, cola specifically, are by far my biggest vice and dietary concern. Deeply, deeply addicted, tbh.
Have you tried monkfruit yet? It’s the closest thing I have found to real sweetness that doesn’t taste like total aids. You just have to use very little of it as it’s super strong
Have you found a brand that is just monk fruit? I’ve only ever seen monk fruit sweeteners that are cut with another artificial sweetener like Erythritol or Allulose, you probably haven’t had pure monk fruit
I have. It’s definitely one of the least egregious and doesn’t have that painful disgust bile taste of the others, but I found it have a… I dunno, “musty” flavor to it? So I also don’t like it, but in a different kind of way than the rest.
I have to admit, a lot of R&D goes into designing a good sugarfree alternative to sugary drinks. Case in point, especially for my fellow Germans: Spezi Zero (obviously Paulaner) tastes really good, but Almdudler Zero tastes pretty bad compared to normal Almdudler.
Never heard of Spezi, Paulaner, or Almdudler. But so I can have a happy fantasy I’m just going to assume that they’re all excellent and have managed to nail fake sugar in a way America hasn’t yet
In the US, Paulaner Spezi is called Paulaner Sunset.
Erythritol tastes just like sugar, slightly less sweet
I do not agree with this, I’m sorry. I think while yes sweet similar to sugar, it has a slightly menthol and aggressively metallic taste.
That being said, I am a supertaster unfortunately, so that may be contributing to my difficulty with fake sugars.
Fair enough, I’m definitely not a supertaster, so maybe that’s why I can’t taste it.
Erythritol has a cold minty aftertaste for me, but a 50:50 mix with stevia eliminates that taste.
JFC erythritol is dangerous. Blood clots, wipes the gut microbiome.
Better off with sugar.
i feel stupid because I can’t really tell a difference. i don’t or can’t pay attention to the specific taste of the sweetness. i don’t mind sweetener anyhow.
Don’t feel stupid - you’re in the majority.
Here in the UK they’ve reformulated almost all soda to include Aspartame or Acuflame K.
The vast majority don’t give a fuck, as they taste the same as before.
It’s only people like me who, through a hilarious quirk of genetics, actually taste some sweetners as bitter and unpleasant, that are effected.
For a small (but significant when you scale it up) percentage of the population, these drinks have been entirely ruined and rendered basically undrinkable.
Even my ‘national drink’ Irn-Bru has been wrecked.
It’s kinda funny as most people I meet don’t taste it at all and probably think I’m being weird about it or that I’m making some sort of moral stance against sweetners. But it’s genuinely not that. It’s just that all the soda I liked has been replaced with weird tasting garbage.
i see. I’m sorry. good luck with your search for good sodas. i mostly just drink water and occasionally a glass of diluted juice. i really like juice due to it not being carbonated, but i still run into the issue of it being too strong and overwhelming, hence the dilution.
No worries - it’s not the end of the world and I only drink soda as a treat anyway. Coca-Cola is still the same, and there’s carbonated apple drinks that are ok. I usually just stick to fruit juice with soda myself.
For me diet sodas taste fine for like 2 seconds and then they turn disgusting
to me everything with carbonation tastes of overwhelmed senses that can barely taste anything
Does anyone else pronounce it “Ass Part o’ Me”?
Yeah and I sing it out like “love reign o’er me” by the who
How else should it be pronounced?
I do now!
You’re lucky. For me it just tastes like migraine.
Oh my god. How did I not know this? I’m pretty sure this is what ruined my December.
It’s not common, but yeah. Some people get migraines triggered by artificial sweeteners. Apartame, sucralose, and two others will do it for me. Xylitol and monk fruit are ok.
I really thought Coke Zero used sucralose!?
The only drinks using sucralose is energy drinks basically. Sodas almost exclusively use aspertane.
My understanding is that it’s cheaper and because of diet coke people expect the after taste of aspertane in a diet or low calorie soda.
In the US the current ingredients list for Coke Zero is:
CARBONATED WATER, CARAMEL COLOR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, ASPARTAME, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE), NATURAL FLAVORS, POTASSIUM CITRATE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, CAFFEINE, STEVIA EXTRACT.
whereas for Diet Coke it’s:
CARBONATED WATER, CARAMEL COLOR, ASPARTAME, PHOSPHORIC ACID, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE), NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, CAFFEINE.
Yes I do love some unidentified NATURAL FLAVORS
“natural and artificial flavors” is a very common ingredient in the US
Yeah, I’m pretty sure this is the case. I think diet coke is aspartame sweetened.
Source: diet coke tastes like shit, coke zero is actually kind of okay.
I’ve been paying more attention to my health lately and honestly going from occasional sugar free soft drinks to even more occasional full sugar drinks has been a great “perk”. The sugary version tastes better, and 300-400 extra calories per month isn’t a big deal when I’m paying attention to my actual day to day consumption.
Besides, yeah yeah natural fallacy etc, but those non-sweetener ingredients probably aren’t stellar for your health either, and less overall volume of this stuff is probably better.
The difference in taste is from what their formulas are based on. Diet Coke basically came from Tab, where Coke Zero was a modern attempt at making Coca-Cola with zero calories.
I thought the same, but the internet says that not only does it contain aspartame, but it always has. I feel like I’ve discovered a new Mandela Effect.
whatever they use in diet coke tastes like stomach acid to me
thats probably because they put literal acid in it (phosphoric acid)
nope, normal coke and pepsi don’t taste bad for me. it’s just the no sugar versions
I mean… Almost all sodas are quite acidic.
Not my favorite, Caustic Cola Classic
That’s a pretty based choice of favorite soda!
Gotta put some acid in, or you’d throw up from all the sugar.
Yum yum
