| ▲ | RHSeeger 4 hours ago |
| It's just a preference thing. They taste bad _to you_, not to everyone. Even among people that like artificial sweeteners, people have preferences. I prefer pink and my wife prefers yellow. When I'm forced to use yellow, I just can't enjoy the drink as much. And, yes, it's a totally different kind of "sweet" for each of them. So if you're expecting "sugar sweet", it won't be that for the others. |
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| ▲ | mocamoca 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Cilantro really tastes different from one person to another (relative to the aldéhyde content of cilantro and genetic variations). I don't know about sugar and aspartame but saying that it is purely a "preference" looks a little bit presomptuous to me. To the previous poster: do other intense sweeteners (stevia, saccharin, sucralose) taste sweet to you? |
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| ▲ | mmastrac 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | None of them do with the exception of Stevia, which sort-of kind-of tastes a bit like rum, if I could describe it. |
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| ▲ | mmastrac 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't think you understand. That's like saying mud is a preference over sugar. It's not sweet to me. It's not even in the same ballpark. I'd have to completely re-orient my taste buds because it literally tastes like dirt or dust without a hint of the same flavour. |
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| ▲ | tsimionescu 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You're conflating two different things. Unless you have some very weird genetic condition, it does taste sweet to you. That is, it activates the same sweet receptors on your tongue and in other parts of your mouth that sugar activates - and more or less to the same extent (relative to concentration). However, sugar isn't simply a sweet taste. It also has some amount of flavor, and so do the artificial sweeteners, and it is these flavor differences that you (and many others) dislike. Flavor is something that happens in the air tract, and is far more complex than taste. | | |
| ▲ | mmastrac 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It absolutely does not. The places on my tongue that taste sweet and the places that taste aspartame are completely different (the latter strongly at back of my throat, sugar strongly on my tongue). |
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| ▲ | RHSeeger 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Fair enough. It's certainly not like that for most people though; which falls back to the _to you_ issue. Maybe, as you questioned, there is a genetic component. Or just "something different about you" (not necessarily genetic). | | |
| ▲ | kakacik 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, this is pretty common in folks who don't drown their taste buds and systems in tons of it every day. Then you feel it anytime its there, since its pretty rare and its disgusting chemical bleh, one feels it fully. Its a bit like smoking cigarettes - to many non-smokers, its disgusting beyond description, smearing face with old feces wouldn't be worse. To many smokers its mild, pleasant, they enjoy it with lunch etc. | | |
| ▲ | wasabi991011 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I almost never drink artificial sweetened drinks. But when I do, I barely notice a difference, and it doesn't really bother me. Why is it so hard to believe that people's taste perception vary? |
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| ▲ | ErroneousBosh 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > It's just a preference thing. They taste bad _to you_, not to everyone. That's great, but it still means I can't have soft drinks any more. |
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| ▲ | wasabi991011 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Most soft drinks are not made with artificial sweeteners. Where are you that the only available soft drinks are artificially sweetened? Never been to a restaurant or fast food place or grocery store that only carried the diet/zero and didn't carry the standard coke or pepsi. | | |
| ▲ | ErroneousBosh an hour ago | parent [-] | | > Most soft drinks are not made with artificial sweeteners. All soft drinks are contaminated with artificial sweeteners. | | |
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| ▲ | throw4847285 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If you keep drinking them, you'll likely acquire a taste. I didn't used to like any artificial sugar flavors, but now I've grown accustomed to them. | | |
| ▲ | ErroneousBosh an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's not "I don't like the taste". It is "these taste like they're contaminated with antifreeze". They taste like they've been intentionally adulterated with the stuff they use to stop people drinking poisonous things. |
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