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Is sugar that much cheaper than aspartame, sucralose, erythritol, or other fake sweeteners? I found that chewing on erythitol-based bars (Quest) sorta satisfied
by MichaelGG 11y ago
Is sugar that much cheaper than aspartame, sucralose, erythritol, or other fake sweeteners? I found that chewing on erythitol-based bars (Quest) sorta satisfied most of my need to eat sweets.
I suppose it's a bit of an arms race: keep adding sweetness to add a bit more flavour and soon we're escalated so far up the sweetness chain with no commercially viable way to back down.
- peteretep 11y agoI believe that high-fructose corn syrup is, because of subsidies.
- maxerickson 11y agoCommodity sugar costs less than $0.15 cents per pound, so the price difference with corn syrup only matters to a profit maximizer. (There is 1 or 2 cents of sugar in a can of soda!)