BRING BACK CYCLAMATES! EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD USES IT!................
The history of apartame’s FDA approval is a sordid one. Won’t bother posting it here because it slays some sacred cows.
Typical American health hysteria.
as if Splenda or Stevia wouldn’t be as bad
Used to drink tons of soda! until my acupuncturist showed me some stuff..Zevia, Hansens pretty good.
Or just plain old water!
I only drink diet soda.
Can’t stand the taste of sugary sodas.
Until I was 8 I wouldn’t drink sodas. Then one day my Mom was drinking something out of a pink can.
Sohhhh, I drank the whole thing.
She called me to attention and insisted I come have a conversation with her.
When she asked if I had drank what was in her pink can I replied I had.
She laughed really hard, telling her friend “My kids won’t drink regular soda but, they like TAB? Guess I’ll have to hide it from now on”.
Pepsi also recently got rid of its 24 ounce bottles, which lasted all day. Now they only sell 16 ounces (in packs) at a higher cost per ounce of course.
Companies should stop listening to Liberals who are never going to buy their product anyhow.
Sugar bad
Cyclamate called bad.
Saccharin tastes terrible and called bad.
Sorbitol causes guts to hurt and diarrhea so it’s bad.
Aspartame tastes good so now it’s bad.
Sucralose tastes good and I hope is still OK.
I use Splenda all the time. Tastes like sugar to me, far better than cyclamates, IMHO.
There is a version of Diet Coke with Splenda that is already available.
And there is Vitamin Water ZERO..sweetened with Truvia, which is stevia and erythritol (made by Coke, who has a partnership with Cargill to make Truvia)
Meh, safe or not, aspartame just tastes nasty. I can immediately tell if some drink has it as an ingredient, and I’ll spit it right out. Sucralose is a little more tolerable, but still has a nasty aftertaste.
I’ll just stick with sugar, I know what that is going to do to me.
Drink water ... not sugar and chemicals.
Currently have in the fridge Pepsi and Dr Pepper, both made with real sugar. Ran out reduced calorie Coke made with a mixture of stevia and real sugar. (Coke is really behind the curve on the sugar drinks). I stay away from drinks with HFCS and try to avoid artificial sweeteners.
Thank goodness they are getting rid of aspartame. Gives me and a lot of other people a terrible headache.
Hoping Dr. Pepper and root beer brands will follow.
My favorite diet soda is Diet Rite. Tastes great to me, and has no aspartame, no sodium and no caffeine.
Pardon, but many seem to have a misperception about Splenda
http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com/resources/faqs.html
Due to a myriad of odd health issues, I’ve quit soda altogether save for an occasional one made with actual SUGAR and feel the better for it.
Good luck to others; quitting soda was as hard as quitting smoking for me.
“even though the Food and Drug Administration says aspartame, best known by the brand names Equal and NutraSweet, is “one of the most exhaustively studied substances in the human food supply, with more than 100 studies supporting its safety.”
Oh, if the FDA says it’s safe, then that should settle it for everyone, right?
My default position is that the FDA is presumptively wrong until proven otherwise.
Try stevia.
Beat me to it! I remember cyclamates.