Since this is about beverages, let’s move it over to Cafe Society.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
This without the diabetes. My trigger was filling out a food diary and realizing I was drinking more calories than I was eating.
They have a horrible chemical aftertaste to a lot of us.
I will throw up another hand for, yes that diet stuff tastes bad. It is sweet I guess but I can tell it is not even close to a natural sweet. There is an overpowering tast of something strange at the end. The commercials are right though, I do not mind diet Doctor Pepper at all, though if there is regular I am grabbing that. I guess I dont see why people drink diet soda. They are only sickly sweet if you are not used to sweets at all or drink more than one or maybe two a day. I am very unhealthy so I am not one to preach but soda is only good with greasy meals or as a mixer.
Well, it’s how I got off sugary sodas in the first place. When nutrasweet was new, I had trouble liking it, so I mixed half-nutrasweet/half-sugary Kool-Aid. It was something I could stomach, and after awhile, I mixed ~75% nutrasweet/25% sugar. Next step was pure nutrasweet drinks. I lost 50 lbs giving up my sugary soda.
I don’t find it weird at all, seeing as most foods we encounter do in fact taste the same to most people. The only exception I know of is that supertasters taste certain things as bitter that others don’t.
My problem with sweeteners is that they have a dull taste, versus the sharpness of sugar. If they could find a sweetener that was actually not dull, it would be a lot better.
Also, does everyone agree that saccharin (Sweet N’ Low) is bitter, at least, if used in too high concentrations?
I would say saccharin is bitter, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember the last time I’ve encountered saccharin, as I don’t sweeten coffee, and soft drinks don’t use saccharine much anymore (if at all), so far as I know.
It’s interesting that you describe sugar as “sharp.” I would call sugar “mellow, full, smooth,” and aspartame and saccharine as “sharp and thin.” Sucralose is a bit closer to sugar in its mellowness, but can have an odd greasiness to the mouthfeel. My favorite is a mix of Ace K and sucralose – that’s the combo that tastes the closest to sugar for me.
The other problem is the postmix machines—the sugared mix requires a lot more pressure than diet, and a blend of sugar and whatever would need a new setting.
However, that being said, restaurant owners, yes I’m looking at ALL of you, please brix your soda heads once a month, nothing is viler than diet wrongly mixed. And VERY few are correctly mixed.
The cucumber flavor is wild!
I like Grown Up Soda too. Honest Tea also has low-sugar “just a tad sweet” flavors.
Seriously? I mean, I can understand that some people don’t like the aftertaste (personally, I don’t mind diet pop), but honestly, you cannot be THAT sensitive. It’s not THAT bad. If you don’t like it, don’t drink it.
Granted, I prefer aspartame to splenda (I think splenda tastes nasty), but it’s not like it lasts forever. I just think it tastes fakey.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at, but yes, it tastes that bad and has that effect for me. This is why I don’t drink diets. I switched to water and tea. If it doesn’t have that effect on you, then consider yourself lucky, but it’s not imaginary.
Maybe it’s an allergic reaction, but it tastes like a chemical spill, and dries my mouth out, sometimes for hours.
Same here! Aspartame tastes great to me but Splenda has a weird taste to it. Because most of the diet non-carbonated drinks around here use sucralose, I stick to the carbonated ones with aspartame.
howye could be a supertaster. I’m glad I’m not.
Ugh – glad that’s not me. That must seriously suck.
See, I can’t have caffeine, and I’m also a huge fan of Dr Pepper. And most of the time the only caffeine-free Dr Pepper version I can find is diet. I’m willing to make the trade-off.
(I liked Pepsi Jazz, that was really good. It only came in diet, but they stopped making it. But, of course, it doesn’t matter, because it wasn’t caffeine free, dammit)