Getting used to artificial sweetener

WinterFire · 12-12-2012, 11:35

How long did it take people here to get used to drinking diet drinks with artificial sweeteners? I'm a couple of weeks in, and it's getting easier, but diet soft drinks still taste a bit "wrong' to me.

molliepops · 12-12-2012, 11:45

Compared to the sweeteners they used to put in diet drinks in the 70s the present range are quite pleasant so I have no problem with them today.

moonburn · 12-12-2012, 11:54

sprite zero is one of the nicest
also tesco/sainsburys do a no added sugar range of juices.
Drop of Cranberry in with the sprite zero blooming lovely

WinterFire · 12-12-2012, 13:05

None of them taste quite right to me. Including sprite zero. I'm hoping that my experience will be like other people, where I have read that they got used to artificial sweeteners over time.

curvybabes · 12-12-2012, 19:52

im so used to it if i drink full sugar juice i dont like it

sweh · 12-12-2012, 19:56

I think the diet ones taste better!
Diet Coke is amaaazing whereas real Coke makes my teeth feel funny.

I'm 100% sure you'll get used to it... always make sure it's nice and cold!

Osusana · 12-12-2012, 19:59

Just don't!
It's a chemical product rather than a natural one, ok too much sugar is bad for you but don't have many sweetened drinks.
You can train your palate to dislike sweetness - many years ago I could only drink coffee with milk and sugar, now I cannot abide it anyway but black andunsweetened.

I would rather have a small amount of a natural substance than any amount if artificial anything

Sweet FA · 12-12-2012, 20:08

Not sure if it's the same thing but I often buy 'no added sugar' varieties of juices accidentally and generally don't have any issues with them...

Sarahnash1988 · 12-12-2012, 21:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by WinterFire

How long did it take people here to get used to drinking diet drinks with artificial sweeteners? I'm a couple of weeks in, and it's getting easier, but diet soft drinks still taste a bit "wrong' to me.

I'm diabetic so am so used to drinking no added sugar / sugar free, I don't like all the added sugar anyway but you just get used to it.

goldenface · 13-12-2012, 17:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Osusana

Just don't!
It's a chemical product rather than a natural one, ok too much sugar is bad for you but don't have many sweetened drinks.
You can train your palate to dislike sweetness - many years ago I could only drink coffee with milk and sugar, now I cannot abide it anyway but black andunsweetened.

I would rather have a small amount of a natural substance than any amount if artificial anything

I agree!

Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research.

Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good.

epicurian · 13-12-2012, 18:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by goldenface

I agree!

Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research.

Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good.

I've been drinking Diet Coke for 25 years. I've done research and I haven't seen anything to worry me. Do you have any links to the damage it does?

squirrel_army · 13-12-2012, 18:37

The only studies on aspartame were done on rats. They were given massive doses, even more enormous when you scale them up to human proportions. Almost any substance can be toxic when you consume enough of it but a few glasses of artificially sweetened drink a day really aren't going to do any harm. The only people who need to worry about their intake are those who have been medically diagnosed with phenylketonuria,

epicurian · 13-12-2012, 18:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by squirrel_army

The only studies on aspartame were done on rats. They were given massive doses, even more enormous when you scale them up to human proportions. Almost any substance can be toxic when you consume enough of it but a few glasses of artificially sweetened drink a day really aren't going to do any harm. The only people who need to worry about their intake are those who have been medically diagnosed with phenylketonuria,

Yep.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16985027
We examined 285,079 men and 188,905 women... Our findings do not support the hypothesis that aspartame increases hematopoietic or brain cancer risk.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/art...teners/MY00073
But according to the National Cancer Institute and other health agencies, there's no sound scientific evidence that any of the artificial sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. (including aspartame)cause cancer or other serious health problems. And numerous research studies confirm that artificial sweeteners are generally safe in limited quantities, even for pregnant women

gizzy77 · 14-12-2012, 10:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by goldenface

I agree!

Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research.

Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good.

Before you make dangerous and untrue statements I think it is very important to check your facts. There have been numerous studies showing no dangerous effects of artificial sweeteners in normal quantities.

cbe21ok · 14-12-2012, 11:47

I like diet Pepsi more than the normal one, 4 for £1 at Farmfoods up the road.

Spiderpig · 14-12-2012, 12:23

I started using them and got fed up with the taste so now I am sugar free but still sweet, where's that sick bag?

WinterFire · 14-12-2012, 13:35

I don't want people to imagine me as having a massive belly or anything, but I've been consistently overweight for a few years now. There has been enough use of artificial sweeteners by millions if not billions of people that any serious health risk should have been obvious by now. If I drink artificially sweetened drinks and if this helps me lose weight, then I have may have an increased risk of some problems (illness or death) due to the artificial sweenteners, but these need to be balanced against descreased risk of illness or death if I'm no longer overweight or less overweight.

I've been eating and drinking less calories (artificially sweetened drinks are only part of this) for a few weeks, and one shirt that was a bit tight on me isn't so tight any more. I'll have to go weigh myself to see if this means that I've lost weight.

When I've dieted in the past and "fallen off the wagon", it's often been fizzy drinks which have been the tipping point. Hence while in a perfect world I might just substitute water or iced unsweetend tea of some form, I think it's reasonable to try diet soft drinks. I've got to the stage where Sainsbury's diet dry ginger ale isn't tasting too bad. But sweeter drinks such as their cream soda still taste pretty bad in their artificially sweetened form. Even though I do like the sweetened form.

BTW: I did do some research before I started drinking more artificial sweeteners. What I found didn't stop me drinking artificially sweetened drinks, but had the opposite effect of making me decide that it would be OK to drink drinks containing aspartame.

WinterFire · 16-12-2012, 08:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by moonburn

sprite zero is one of the nicest

Sainsbury's diet lemonade tastes a lot like sprite, and seems to be one of the better ones.

Welsh-lad · 16-12-2012, 08:39

I don't mind as long as it's sucralose.

I try to void aspartame.

walterwhite · 16-12-2012, 08:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by goldenface

I agree!

Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research.

Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good.

The same Aspartame that is passed as fit for human consumption by almost every food standards agency in the world?

molliepops · 16-12-2012, 09:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by WinterFire

I don't want people to imagine me as having a massive belly or anything, but I've been consistently overweight for a few years now. There has been enough use of artificial sweeteners by millions if not billions of people that any serious health risk should have been obvious by now. If I drink artificially sweetened drinks and if this helps me lose weight, then I have may have an increased risk of some problems (illness or death) due to the artificial sweenteners, but these need to be balanced against descreased risk of illness or death if I'm no longer overweight or less overweight.

I've been eating and drinking less calories (artificially sweetened drinks are only part of this) for a few weeks, and one shirt that was a bit tight on me isn't so tight any more. I'll have to go weigh myself to see if this means that I've lost weight.

When I've dieted in the past and "fallen off the wagon", it's often been fizzy drinks which have been the tipping point. Hence while in a perfect world I might just substitute water or iced unsweetend tea of some form, I think it's reasonable to try diet soft drinks. I've got to the stage where Sainsbury's diet dry ginger ale isn't tasting too bad. But sweeter drinks such as their cream soda still taste pretty bad in their artificially sweetened form. Even though I do like the sweetened form.

BTW: I did do some research before I started drinking more artificial sweeteners. What I found didn't stop me drinking artificially sweetened drinks, but had the opposite effect of making me decide that it would be OK to drink drinks containing aspartame.

Being diabetic now I only have artificial sweeteners I agree sweeter drinks aren't as nice I find them sweeter than their sugar loaded counterparts, I wonder if that is the problem are they sweetening them too much ?

WinterFire · 16-12-2012, 09:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by molliepops

Being diabetic now I only have artificial sweeteners I agree sweeter drinks aren't as nice I find them sweeter than their sugar loaded counterparts, I wonder if that is the problem are they sweetening them too much ?

The cream soda is just over the top as far as sweetness is concerned. In my opinion anyhow. Ginger ales seem better. Waitrose diet "american" ginger ale and the sucrose sweetened Old Jamaican seem good. I haven't tried the Aspartame sweetened Old Jamaican GA yet.

Hotgossip · 16-12-2012, 10:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by walterwhite

The same Aspartame that is passed as fit for human consumption by almost every food standards agency in the world?

Correct.

Quackers · 16-12-2012, 12:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by walterwhite

The same Aspartame that is passed as fit for human consumption by almost every food standards agency in the world?

Which was denied for years until the company who made it had his best mate become president then it got approved? and the because USA approved it the rest of the world followed suit? Yeah thats the one....

If you think you need to switch to diet products, you just masking the issue, you consuming to much of it.

Address that issue and you will not need to replace regular for these vile tasting diet products.

Did you watch that BBC documenty the truth about low fat products they did a test that showed those who drank the diet drinks ate more than those who had the regular ones with sugar in because the body felt deprived and less satisified.

Welsh-lad · 16-12-2012, 12:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quackers

Which was denied for years until the company who made it had his best mate become president then it got approved? and the because USA approved it the rest of the world followed suit? Yeah thats the one....

I agree there are too many question marks over aspartame now for me to happily consume it.

When I do take a sweetener it's usually splenda (sucralose) or stevia which is herbal and has recently been approved for use in the UK as a sweetener

12-12-2012, 11:35	#1
WinterFire Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,230	Getting used to artificial sweetener How long did it take people here to get used to drinking diet drinks with artificial sweeteners? I'm a couple of weeks in, and it's getting easier, but diet soft drinks still taste a bit "wrong' to me.

12-12-2012, 11:45	#2
molliepops Forum Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: woking Posts: 21,678	Compared to the sweeteners they used to put in diet drinks in the 70s the present range are quite pleasant so I have no problem with them today.

12-12-2012, 11:54	#3
moonburn Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 3,352	sprite zero is one of the nicest also tesco/sainsburys do a no added sugar range of juices. Drop of Cranberry in with the sprite zero blooming lovely

12-12-2012, 13:05	#4
WinterFire Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,230	None of them taste quite right to me. Including sprite zero. I'm hoping that my experience will be like other people, where I have read that they got used to artificial sweeteners over time.

12-12-2012, 19:52	#5
curvybabes Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 11,156	im so used to it if i drink full sugar juice i dont like it

12-12-2012, 19:56	#6
sweh Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: London Posts: 12,508	I think the diet ones taste better! Diet Coke is amaaazing whereas real Coke makes my teeth feel funny. I'm 100% sure you'll get used to it... always make sure it's nice and cold!

12-12-2012, 19:59	#7
Osusana Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 5,390	Just don't! It's a chemical product rather than a natural one, ok too much sugar is bad for you but don't have many sweetened drinks. You can train your palate to dislike sweetness - many years ago I could only drink coffee with milk and sugar, now I cannot abide it anyway but black andunsweetened. I would rather have a small amount of a natural substance than any amount if artificial anything

12-12-2012, 20:08	#8
Sweet FA Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: In my Opinion Posts: 10,057	Not sure if it's the same thing but I often buy 'no added sugar' varieties of juices accidentally and generally don't have any issues with them...

12-12-2012, 21:46	#9
Sarahnash1988 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 324	Quote: Originally Posted by WinterFire How long did it take people here to get used to drinking diet drinks with artificial sweeteners? I'm a couple of weeks in, and it's getting easier, but diet soft drinks still taste a bit "wrong' to me. I'm diabetic so am so used to drinking no added sugar / sugar free, I don't like all the added sugar anyway but you just get used to it.

13-12-2012, 17:02	#10
goldenface Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1,044	Quote: Originally Posted by Osusana Just don't! It's a chemical product rather than a natural one, ok too much sugar is bad for you but don't have many sweetened drinks. You can train your palate to dislike sweetness - many years ago I could only drink coffee with milk and sugar, now I cannot abide it anyway but black andunsweetened. I would rather have a small amount of a natural substance than any amount if artificial anything I agree! Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research. Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good.

13-12-2012, 18:26	#11
epicurian Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 15,890	Quote: Originally Posted by goldenface I agree! Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research. Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good. I've been drinking Diet Coke for 25 years. I've done research and I haven't seen anything to worry me. Do you have any links to the damage it does?

13-12-2012, 18:37	#12
squirrel_army Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 43	The only studies on aspartame were done on rats. They were given massive doses, even more enormous when you scale them up to human proportions. Almost any substance can be toxic when you consume enough of it but a few glasses of artificially sweetened drink a day really aren't going to do any harm. The only people who need to worry about their intake are those who have been medically diagnosed with phenylketonuria,

13-12-2012, 18:41	#13
epicurian Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 15,890	Quote: Originally Posted by squirrel_army The only studies on aspartame were done on rats. They were given massive doses, even more enormous when you scale them up to human proportions. Almost any substance can be toxic when you consume enough of it but a few glasses of artificially sweetened drink a day really aren't going to do any harm. The only people who need to worry about their intake are those who have been medically diagnosed with phenylketonuria, Yep. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16985027 We examined 285,079 men and 188,905 women... Our findings do not support the hypothesis that aspartame increases hematopoietic or brain cancer risk. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/art...teners/MY00073 But according to the National Cancer Institute and other health agencies, there's no sound scientific evidence that any of the artificial sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. (including aspartame)cause cancer or other serious health problems. And numerous research studies confirm that artificial sweeteners are generally safe in limited quantities, even for pregnant women

14-12-2012, 10:24	#14
gizzy77 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 735	Quote: Originally Posted by goldenface I agree! Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research. Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good. Before you make dangerous and untrue statements I think it is very important to check your facts. There have been numerous studies showing no dangerous effects of artificial sweeteners in normal quantities.

14-12-2012, 11:47	#15
cbe21ok Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Close to the Toon Posts: 1,465	I like diet Pepsi more than the normal one, 4 for £1 at Farmfoods up the road.

14-12-2012, 12:23	#16
Spiderpig Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2,228	I started using them and got fed up with the taste so now I am sugar free but still sweet, where's that sick bag?

14-12-2012, 13:35	#17
WinterFire Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,230	I don't want people to imagine me as having a massive belly or anything, but I've been consistently overweight for a few years now. There has been enough use of artificial sweeteners by millions if not billions of people that any serious health risk should have been obvious by now. If I drink artificially sweetened drinks and if this helps me lose weight, then I have may have an increased risk of some problems (illness or death) due to the artificial sweenteners, but these need to be balanced against descreased risk of illness or death if I'm no longer overweight or less overweight. I've been eating and drinking less calories (artificially sweetened drinks are only part of this) for a few weeks, and one shirt that was a bit tight on me isn't so tight any more. I'll have to go weigh myself to see if this means that I've lost weight. When I've dieted in the past and "fallen off the wagon", it's often been fizzy drinks which have been the tipping point. Hence while in a perfect world I might just substitute water or iced unsweetend tea of some form, I think it's reasonable to try diet soft drinks. I've got to the stage where Sainsbury's diet dry ginger ale isn't tasting too bad. But sweeter drinks such as their cream soda still taste pretty bad in their artificially sweetened form. Even though I do like the sweetened form. BTW: I did do some research before I started drinking more artificial sweeteners. What I found didn't stop me drinking artificially sweetened drinks, but had the opposite effect of making me decide that it would be OK to drink drinks containing aspartame.

16-12-2012, 08:00	#18
WinterFire Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,230	Quote: Originally Posted by moonburn sprite zero is one of the nicest Sainsbury's diet lemonade tastes a lot like sprite, and seems to be one of the better ones.

16-12-2012, 08:39	#19
Welsh-lad Inactive Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mid Wales / Canolbarth Cymru Posts: 37,555	I don't mind as long as it's sucralose. I try to void aspartame.

16-12-2012, 08:46	#20
walterwhite Forum Member Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 21,729	Quote: Originally Posted by goldenface I agree! Before you think it's OK to like artificial sweeteners do some research. Aspartame, is toxic and can do more harm than good. The same Aspartame that is passed as fit for human consumption by almost every food standards agency in the world?

16-12-2012, 09:00	#21
molliepops Forum Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: woking Posts: 21,678	Quote: Originally Posted by WinterFire I don't want people to imagine me as having a massive belly or anything, but I've been consistently overweight for a few years now. There has been enough use of artificial sweeteners by millions if not billions of people that any serious health risk should have been obvious by now. If I drink artificially sweetened drinks and if this helps me lose weight, then I have may have an increased risk of some problems (illness or death) due to the artificial sweenteners, but these need to be balanced against descreased risk of illness or death if I'm no longer overweight or less overweight. I've been eating and drinking less calories (artificially sweetened drinks are only part of this) for a few weeks, and one shirt that was a bit tight on me isn't so tight any more. I'll have to go weigh myself to see if this means that I've lost weight. When I've dieted in the past and "fallen off the wagon", it's often been fizzy drinks which have been the tipping point. Hence while in a perfect world I might just substitute water or iced unsweetend tea of some form, I think it's reasonable to try diet soft drinks. I've got to the stage where Sainsbury's diet dry ginger ale isn't tasting too bad. But sweeter drinks such as their cream soda still taste pretty bad in their artificially sweetened form. Even though I do like the sweetened form. BTW: I did do some research before I started drinking more artificial sweeteners. What I found didn't stop me drinking artificially sweetened drinks, but had the opposite effect of making me decide that it would be OK to drink drinks containing aspartame. Being diabetic now I only have artificial sweeteners I agree sweeter drinks aren't as nice I find them sweeter than their sugar loaded counterparts, I wonder if that is the problem are they sweetening them too much ?

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Getting used to artificial sweetener

16-12-2012, 09:48	#22
WinterFire Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,230	Quote: Originally Posted by molliepops Being diabetic now I only have artificial sweeteners I agree sweeter drinks aren't as nice I find them sweeter than their sugar loaded counterparts, I wonder if that is the problem are they sweetening them too much ? The cream soda is just over the top as far as sweetness is concerned. In my opinion anyhow. Ginger ales seem better. Waitrose diet "american" ginger ale and the sucrose sweetened Old Jamaican seem good. I haven't tried the Aspartame sweetened Old Jamaican GA yet.

16-12-2012, 10:13	#23
Hotgossip Inactive Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 16,816	Quote: Originally Posted by walterwhite The same Aspartame that is passed as fit for human consumption by almost every food standards agency in the world? Correct.

16-12-2012, 12:14	#24
Quackers Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Staffordshire Posts: 4,665	Quote: Originally Posted by walterwhite The same Aspartame that is passed as fit for human consumption by almost every food standards agency in the world? Which was denied for years until the company who made it had his best mate become president then it got approved? and the because USA approved it the rest of the world followed suit? Yeah thats the one.... If you think you need to switch to diet products, you just masking the issue, you consuming to much of it. Address that issue and you will not need to replace regular for these vile tasting diet products. Did you watch that BBC documenty the truth about low fat products they did a test that showed those who drank the diet drinks ate more than those who had the regular ones with sugar in because the body felt deprived and less satisified.

16-12-2012, 12:22	#25
Welsh-lad Inactive Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mid Wales / Canolbarth Cymru Posts: 37,555	Quote: Originally Posted by Quackers Which was denied for years until the company who made it had his best mate become president then it got approved? and the because USA approved it the rest of the world followed suit? Yeah thats the one.... I agree there are too many question marks over aspartame now for me to happily consume it. When I do take a sweetener it's usually splenda (sucralose) or stevia which is herbal and has recently been approved for use in the UK as a sweetener