• metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    6 days ago

    This is just another regular Sprite unannounced recipe change.

    Drink literally doesn’t exist for me any more since they quietly added Stevia.

    didn’t even use it as a marketing gimmick to claim they reduced the sugar … because they didn’t.

    I’ve said it before but Stevia must have a genetic effect like Coriander because I can’t understand how it has ended up in everything despite tasting like total ass.

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      8 hours ago

      isn’t stevia a very niche sweetener? the standard one is aspartame, which btw is one of the safest compounds we know of since so much research has gone into it and the worst they can come up with is “it might increase cancer risk if you drink 50 liters of sugar-free soda per day”

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        8 hours ago

        it’s “natural” so it’s in fucking everything now. I wish it was still niche because it ruins everything it touches.

        also it’s been known for awhile that any sweet taste provokes an insulin response so all non-sugar sweeteners are bad in the same way, no need for it to be literally cyanide.