Soft drinks that don't contain artificial sweetners

[TonyRPH]

CoolHands said:

I’m amazed it hasn’t appeared in food yet. Cant be long until you buy some chocolate muffins etc and it will have this st in it. Or Cadburys etc.

I have already seen sugar free biscuits with artificial sweeteners.

There are also sugar free chocolates available, but I think there might be some issues with taste based on what I've read.

[TonyRPH]

M5-911 said:

Hundreds of products already use non glycemic sweetener.

Birch, monkfruit, allulose and Stevia to mention a few.

When you say sh@t. Are you talking about the taste or the manufacturing of it? The manufacturing for many of those products is actually much more natural and ancestral than the white sugar most people use. Our palet has been align over the years to benefit western economy/farming.

The biggest issue for me is aspartame, but the majority of the other artificial sweeteners give me acute headaches and aggravate my tinnitus.

I also don't like the taste of any product containing these artificial sweeteners.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread - why would manufacturers put aspartame in Lemsip of all products...? It's not as though it's the kind of product one would consume on a regular basis (there are other examples as well).

[TonyRPH]

This morning I opened a tin of full fat Coke and took a sip - right away it left a bitter after taste in my mouth.

Surely Coca Cola couldn't have mixed up diet / zero & full fat on the production line?

This is the first of a pack of 8 - hoping the rest don't taste bad like this...

[TonyRPH]

Following up on my thread above about the odd tasting Coca Cola.

After opening another tin and noting the odd smell and taste, I got in touch with Coca Cola and they requested I return a sample of the drink which I did (3 tins). (this after asking for batch numbers and so on)

The drinks were sent to them early this month (2nd Jan) with a promise they would get back to me with their findings.

I have followed up with a request to know their findings but nothing has been forthcoming as yet, apart from a request for the parcel slip from the post office (which I supplied).

Based on the taste and smell of the product, I can't help thinking this was a 'miss fill' and the tins were filled either with diet coke or coke zero (yuk!!).

I have put this theory to them, but they are remaining steadfastly silent.

So they've either lost the products I returned, or don't want to divulge their findings.

[TonyRPH]

Somewhatfoolish said:

Any updates?

They claimed the product I returned was never received and asked for proof of postage (which I provided).

I was issued with £7 worth of vouchers and that was that...