• Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    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)

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      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

      • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      30 minutes ago

      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.

    • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      6 hours ago

      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.

    • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      6 hours ago

      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.

      • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        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.

      • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        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.