# Odd Tasting Splenda

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [May 24, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-tasting-splenda/984519 "2023-05-24T14:57:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-tasting-splenda/984519/1 "2023-05-24T14:57:14Z")

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So being diabetic I use splenda as a non nutritive sweetener, have been since I discovered it ant I pretty much know how many drops it takes to do my bowl of oatmeal. This mornings bowl tastes odd, not sweetened at all and perhaps even a bit musty, Not the oats - I went and ate a dry oat, flavor was still good. Not the milk, tasted that and it is still good. I used splenda out of the same bottle just this morning making a batch of lemonade, and lemonade was good - liquid splenda, powdered lemon juice [I get it in the 500 packet box] even tasted the water straight out of the tap and from the filter pitcher.

So I am at an absolute loss, the only thing I can think of was the back to back positive covid tests with minimal covid illness [was less than a mild cold] but nothing else changed taste. Anybody have any suggestions?

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