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I can completely relate to both of you, as I’ve never even been able to finish diet sodas because they tasted so bad to me. Then one day I had a Dr. Pepper zero

• abathur 3y ago
  I find saccharine and stevia both ~bitter. I don't love aspartame, but it's tolerable in a pinch. Edit: I went to look and guess I'm mistaken below on Sucralose in zero-branded sodas. It sounds like most of these do have aspartame. I guess I just assumed they were doing the same thing as zero-sugar energy drinks since I feel like they started coming to market in roughly the same time frame and used similar zero-sugar marketing. Sucralose, which is AFAIK what you're getting in most modern zero-branded sodas and 0-20ish calorie energy drinks, is... ~good (to me). I keep liquid concentrate of it at home for coffee and will take a travel bottle with me if I know I'm going somewhere ~crunchy that insists on only raw sugar and stevia.
• nucleardog 3y ago
  Same experience. Aspartame and every other artificial sweetener tasted disgusting to me. I’d find where it was hidden in all sorts of things because the taste stood out so much. Found I could tolerate Sprite Zero. Drank enough of that when it was all that was available that it didn’t taste disgusting anymore, then tried some Coke Zero and it didn’t taste so bad anymore. From there pretty much everything was on the table.