# In which the low cal version tastes better. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990 "2019-01-18T16:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/21 "2019-01-18T21:59:40Z")
sugar free Lipton green tea tastes a lot better than the regular version. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/22 "2019-01-18T22:50:21Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > People! Fruit juices that have been so heavily filtered you can’t taste the flavor of the original fruit anymore are no better for you that sugar! Get the reduced sugar varieties instead! I just discovered this with grape juice. After not having had sugary fruit juice other than OJ in years, I got a “light” grape juice and it’s amazing, not at all like the over-tart and sweet monstrosity usually available. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/23 "2019-01-18T23:55:18Z")
I started decreasing the sugar in my Cranberry Sauce. A little less each year for the last decade as people kept saying “I like the tartness!” So I’m using less than half now. And I get funny looks when I order Coke Zero with Jameson at the local tavern, but I prefer it to a regular Scotch & Coke. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/24 "2019-01-19T03:58:05Z")
I don’t care for skim milk, but 2% is better than whole. Even though whole is supposedly healthier. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/25 "2019-01-19T05:19:26Z")
Jax used to make a lite version of their cheese curls. They were awesome. But they stopped selling them years ago ☹ ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/26 "2019-01-19T05:34:16Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Smucker’s reduced sugar strawberry preserves and orange marmalade. However, the “all-natural” versions keep crowding those out of the market. I haven’t been able to find the marmalade in ages. Try Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/27 "2019-01-19T05:40:21Z")
Harking back to the 60’s, anything with cyclamate, Funny Face and Kool-Aid were so much more awesome without sugar! ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/28 "2019-01-19T13:50:20Z")
Cape Cod Low Fat chips ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/29 "2019-01-19T14:29:34Z")
One pink sweetner and one yellow sweetner in my coffee is better than sugar. However, it must have light cream or, in a pinch, half and half. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/30 "2019-01-19T15:03:44Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > One pink sweetner and one yellow sweetner in my coffee is better than sugar. However, it must have light cream or, in a pinch, half and half. And half and half is a lighter option. It’s “obviously” half cream, half milk. I didn’t realize this until I ordered coffee in the UK for the first time: “Do you have cream?” \*“Oi, guvnah, we gots cream, but yer sure as horses not gonna be puttin’ in yer coffee!” [broad cockney chortling ensues] \*“Umm, I just wanted it ummm, milky?” \*“Ah’ll jes’ steam yuh some fresh milk, fold it inta yer cuppa, and Bob’s your uncle!” \*“How’d you know about my Uncle Bob?” [and…scene] Other than the bad accent, it’s a true story. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/31 "2019-01-19T16:04:03Z")
Low sugar gatorade (G2). I can’t drink the regular stuff, tastes like Kool-aid. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/32 "2019-01-19T16:08:02Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Iced tea with Sweet n Low tastes better than iced tea with sugar. > > Fresca is the best soda on the planet. Absolutely true about the iced tea. I never liked the taste of diet soda, and I stopped drinking all sodas 16 years ago, so I can’t judge that. Mission Carb Balance tortillas are better than regular flour tortillas–more flavorful and less cloying. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/33 "2019-01-19T17:15:01Z")
I, too, prefer diet soda to the sugared version. I would never have thought that as a teenager, when I thought diet sodas were the most disgusting drink ever created by man, but, for the last twenty years, I prefer the dry aftertaste to the cloying sweetnenss of sugared drinks. Yes, even the ones made with actual cane sugar. They are all just so sticky and syrupy to me. Skim milk is awful, though. I don’t drink much milk, so it doesn’t matter, but it has to be at least 2%, preferably whole. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/34 "2019-01-19T18:21:42Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > sugar free Lipton green tea tastes a lot better than the regular version. I heartily agree. Even if avoiding sugar wasn’t a goal, the sugar free version is the obvious choice due to the fact it doesn’t have the cloying taste of the regular version. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/35 "2019-01-19T18:57:21Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Low sugar gatorade (G2). I can’t drink the regular stuff, tastes like Kool-aid. G2 is hard to find in my town. Store manager I complained to said that due to the high % of college students here, only the sugary stuff sells. Gotta stock up when I find it. It’s the best thing for dehydration (hangovers, but also just “didn’t pay attention and drink enough yesterday, so woke up with a headache today”). ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/36 "2019-01-19T19:14:35Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > Absolutely true about the iced tea. I don’t know if my tastes are changing, or if sugar is “sweeter” today or not. I used to like iced tea sweetened, but anymore I’ll drink it plain. Recently, a friend brought some food to a get together a few of us were having. Among the stuff he brought was Chick Fil A iced tea, which he raves about and insisted we try. My first gulp, and I was like…GACKKKK! It was like sugar-water with brown coloring. Couldn’t taste any tea. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990/37 "2019-01-19T19:16:12Z")
> [@digs](#): > > G2 is hard to find in my town. Store manager I complained to said that due to the high % of college students here, only the sugary stuff sells. > > Gotta stock up when I find it. It’s the best thing for dehydration (hangovers, but also just “didn’t pay attention and drink enough yesterday, so woke up with a headache today”). You can get an 8 pack on Amazon for $5.38. It’s 2019. How can something like that be “hard to find” anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-low-cal-version-tastes-better/827990.md?page=1)