Sugar, especially in the US where it’s literally added into everything. What’s worse is the alternative (substitutes like aspartame) might also be a candidate and we just don’t know it yet because enough time hasn’t passed to study the long term effects. I try to take stevia as much as possible because it’s more “natural”, but only a few sugar-free products use it over aspartame. I read recently the WHO still considers aspartame as a carcinogen, but only in excessive amounts, like several glasses of soda a day.
I like excessive sweetness in all of my beverages since I’ve been drinking excessively sweet beverages all my life. I got the taste buds of a toddler. Still, give me aspartame over sugar, even on the off chance that the meager amount I consume gives me cancer some day that’s probably better than what too much sugar would do to me.
Ive been buying no added sugar cranberry juice (5 cal/serving so low sugar even including the natural sugars) I pour it into a massive dispenser and water it down, basically 6 parts water to 1 part juice with the intent being it make slightly fruit flavored water - it still taste like juice! I can’t imagine drinking it straight, we as a society are addicted to sweetness.
I stopped eating/drinking fake sugar because I felt like it desensitized my sense of taste. I felt like I was dulling my senses to what actually sugar was, thus making me eat more. Idk if that’s actually true but it felt like it.
Sugar, especially in the US where it’s literally added into everything. What’s worse is the alternative (substitutes like aspartame) might also be a candidate and we just don’t know it yet because enough time hasn’t passed to study the long term effects. I try to take stevia as much as possible because it’s more “natural”, but only a few sugar-free products use it over aspartame. I read recently the WHO still considers aspartame as a carcinogen, but only in excessive amounts, like several glasses of soda a day.
I don’t understand why everything has to be so sickly sweet. Give me a soda with real sugar, but like 1/16 the amount
I like excessive sweetness in all of my beverages since I’ve been drinking excessively sweet beverages all my life. I got the taste buds of a toddler. Still, give me aspartame over sugar, even on the off chance that the meager amount I consume gives me cancer some day that’s probably better than what too much sugar would do to me.
I love spicier ginger beers and sarsaparilla, they’re so much less sweet and have a lot more flavor
Totally. I actually make my own ginger beer and root beer. I make the ginger beer super spicy
Ive been buying no added sugar cranberry juice (5 cal/serving so low sugar even including the natural sugars) I pour it into a massive dispenser and water it down, basically 6 parts water to 1 part juice with the intent being it make slightly fruit flavored water - it still taste like juice! I can’t imagine drinking it straight, we as a society are addicted to sweetness.
Isn’t aspartame one of the most closely studied ingredients?
An analysis on a recent study puts it in the Group 2b category and you need to be consuming around 14 cans per day to exceed the recommended intake.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-14/does-artificial-sweetener-aspartame-cause-cancer-diet-soft-drink/102602384
I stopped eating/drinking fake sugar because I felt like it desensitized my sense of taste. I felt like I was dulling my senses to what actually sugar was, thus making me eat more. Idk if that’s actually true but it felt like it.