> Do you enjoy the taste of any other artificially sweetened drinks, out of curiosity? Well, first off, I don't like Coca-Cola that much for that matter (which

> Do you enjoy the taste of any other artificially sweetened drinks, out of curiosity? Well, first off, I don't like Coca-Cola that much for that matter (which I assume you mean by "Coke"). I just find both Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero perfectly drinkable and occasionally I feel like drinking one or the other. I never really drink "Diet Coke", since while "Coke" and "Coke Zero" are just 2 clearly distinct drinks, "Diet Coke" is something weirdly in between. Not gross, but meaningless and less enjoyable than any of them. That being said, Coca-Cola is one of the least interesting and most bland colas out there. I would prefer "Fever-Tree's Cola", or "Jarritos Mexican Cola" or half a dozen of another colas over the one you probably mean by "Coke". So it's kinda silly to me to compare another drink (Coca-Cola Zero) to it as if it was some Holy-Grail of colas. It's just a mediocre drink, not amazing, not disgusting. And so is Coca-Cola Zero. I cannot right now remember vividly enough the tastes of other drinks that might have been artificially sweetened, so I cannot answer your question directly. I don't like the taste of aspartame on its own, I don't use it at home, but I don't remember which off-the-shelf drinks contain it. Sucralose is better, protein powders are often sweetened by it, but it all depends on how much of it do they contain. I specifically checked right now 2 brands of which I remember one being horribly sweet, and the other quite nice: both have just sucralose as a sweetener, but they taste vastly different. On the other hand, Nocco drinks also are sucralose, they aren't too sweet, but I don't find them very pleasant to drink. I cannot remember how stevia tastes (I guess I must have tasted it, but I cannot remember when or where), and it's possibly the first time I hear of "monk fruit". I'll try them out, I guess. So, TL;DR: the particular sweetener doesn't define the taste of the whole drink, it really depends if I will like it or not.