• partial_accumen
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    27 months ago

    The “zero” beverages are usually sweetened with Sucrolose primarily. Not Aspertame. Though I’ve seen some with primarily Sucrolose and also Aspertame as a secondary ingredient.

    • @[email protected]
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      07 months ago

      The original selling point was partly that it wasn’t aspartame, but I think that’s changing to the mixture since some people react poorly to sucrolose.

      • partial_accumen
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        27 months ago

        The original selling point was partly that it wasn’t aspartame,

        Was it? I thought it was just an angle to use a better tasting sweetener than Aspertame. Sucrolose tastes much closer to sugar than Aspertame does, probably because Sucrolose’s chemical structure is very close to sucrose.

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          17 months ago

          Yeah some of the Diet brands were running as “aspartame free” when it was gaining popularity