I like my coffee light and very sweet, but it really bothers me to dump spoonfuls of sugar into it, so I have a gigantic box of Splenda that I use.
It’s not so much the caloric content that worries me as much as possible blood sugar effects of a big slug of sugar. I’m not sure if my approach has any merit, but it works for me and I like the stuff.
I lost over 80 pounds on keto; part of it was making the switch to pure sucralose (from which I make liquid sucralose). I don’t drink sodas, so that’s not at all relevant, although I used to drink beer which is really carb-laden.
I used the sucralose to cook with or make keto-friendly things, like chocolate mousse or coffee panna cotta. When I have visitors I will make diet soda for them (I have a large CO2 tank I use to make carbonated water, and of course about 40 flavor extracts I have for fun. Carbonated water is an excellent replacement for beer).
I’m not really worried about insulin response. I wasn’t pre-diabetic, and I hope the weight loss at least staves that off for a while or even permanently.
Yes. I’ve drank (drunk? sounds weird) diet sodas almost exclusively since I was a kid. My stepfather was diabetic, but controlled it with diet and a pill instead of shots. Anyway, we only had diet sodas in the house. He loved them and drank them constantly. Lived to be 86, and all there mentally.
Anyway, I continue to drink diet soda because it tastes good and because the overwhelming scientific evidence says it’s fine. Diet ginger ale, yum, yum. Much nicer than regular, BTW, because it’s less syrupy.
I don’t drink diet Coke, though, only regular. I have 1 every day or two. Mexican Coke, with sugar. It’s fucking delicious.
Those people are tedious, and don’t believe you when you provide information to the contrary. So I don’t listen to them anymore.
Artificial sweeteners taste horrible. The real thing for me please, in moderation.
I recently acquired a bulk bag of artificial sweetener. I put some in small-parts bags so I could carry it in my pocket to add to iced tea.
My gf says no. What do you think?
It may sound weird but that’s the conjugation for drink. I drink, I drank, I have drunk.
I usually choose diet soda over regular soda when the option presents itself and I only ever buy diet soda or get it at restaurants. But, when I do have regular soda, I notice that while I could drink 2 or 3 diet sodas with a meal, one regular soda is satisfying.
In any case, I am working on limiting myself to one coffee in the morning, one soda before bed and water if I’m thirsty the rest of the time. It suuucks.
I can’t taste any difference. I doubt most people can (consistently and reliably) in a true blind taste test.
Apparently I’m not “most people” then 
I can definitely taste it whether it’s in “sugar free” things like sodas or boxed foods, or if it’s added from a packet.
Disgusting, all of it.
most if not all sodas can “corrode” metal objects since they usually contain citric acid. But so does lemonade.
but aluminum protects itself by passivation; it forms a protective layer of aluminum oxide on its surface rapidly once exposed to air.
I drink a can of Coke Zero in the morning for my caffiene fix, and if I’m not having milk or water with a meal it’s a can of Caffiene Free Coke Zero or Kool Aid made with Splenda.
I don’t really go for other “sugar free” stuff like candy but I do eschew things like fruit juice, Gatorade, regular sodas, etc.
I find Pepsi Max to be suuuuper sweet now. And regular Diet Coke to taste “off” somehow Coke Zero is my jam but it’s starting to feel too sweet now too 
How we taste sweeteners:
http://news.psu.edu/story/284556/2013/08/20/research/multiple-genes-manage-how-people-taste-sweeteners
No, I hate artificial sweeteners. They all have a cloying, dry, cotton-wool style aftertaste that stands out a mile to me.
I don’t really drink sweet drinks though, mostly plain old fizzy water so the occasional “full fat” coke is not a big issue for me.
The only problem is finding a tonic water without sweeteners in it. A G&T is one drink that amplifies the nastiness of the sweetener aftertaste.
Sucralose has a distinctive taste to me, but it’s either not unpleasant, or I’m used to it now. When I serve other people my sucralose stuff, no one complains, but the sucralose usually competes with cocoa or coffee or citric acid.
Yep.
Yes. Diet soda is a tropical oasis amidst the desert of dieting.
In the summer I drink iced tea (cold brewed) sweetened with a sucralose solution I mix myself. The rest of the year I drink diet 7-Up.
All year long I have hot chocolate that I make from cocoa powder and Splenda.
Kroger brand Cola Oh! is fucking crazy good!
I can absolutely taste the difference. Artificial sweeteners taste terrible to me. Sucralose tastes like medicine - specifically some nasty prescription cough syrup I was given as a child, which usually made me vomit. Aspartame tastes nasty as well, though not as medicine-y. Even Stevia, which is touted as ‘natural’, tastes awful to me.
I’ve mostly given up sodas completely, in favor of unsweetened iced tea, water, or fizzy water like Lacroix.
I drink diet coke, 7up or pepsi but make them taste better via copious amounts of alcohol.
During the day and, mostly, during the week I use Stevia. Both the commercially granulated stuff and home grown leaves (with my tea or coffee).
The only soda I drink is diet, so, yes, artificial sweeteners all the way for me in terms of beverages. Anything else, though, it’s sugar or some other natural sweetener. And there is a taste difference between the artificial sweeteners, to me. I guess Stevia is natural, but it just tastes awful, in my opinion. My favorite is a mix of Sucralose and Ace K. That’s the one that’s most similar to sugar for me, and I dislike Sucralose on its own, but with Ace K, it seems to work.
