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FUCK YOU, SUCRALOSE. AND FUCK YOU, TOO, ASPARTAME. AND FUCK YOU, STEVIA, BECAUSE YOU'RE A TRAITOROUS LITTLE BITCH.

Seriously, what the fucking hell is the point of putting sucralose in a drink that already has high fructose corn syrup in it?! My choices are either being utterly distracted from doing what I want to do (hi, self-medicating ADD!) or killing the fuck out of my tastebuds.

Fuck this shit. I just wanted a fucking energy drink and now I'm just pissed. /flips all the tables

Stevia is artificial? IIRC it's just another plant, not any more artificial than cane sugar

It's natural, but it's still a no-calorie sweetener, and it's concentrated enough to be sweeter than sugar, so it's still causing the same problems that sucralose and aspartame do - mainly, confusing the fuck out of your body and killing your tastebuds. Hence the "traitorous little bitch" line.

Sugar is bad for you too, I don't get why stevia would be worse if you ate it in moderation (like you're supposed to be doing with sugar to begin with)

It's been used in Japan in everything for a long time now

Strictly speaking, it is better than sugar, calorie-wise, but I already consume my sugar in moderation - mostly because I stay away from artificial sweeteners, which are a ton sweeter than plain sugar and desensitize your tastebuds. When you can't taste how sweet things actually are, you tend to consume more sweets.

Not to mention, when you have something really sweet, your body expects calories for it to burn, so you end up craving calories anyway with no-calorie sweeteners. Sort of defeats the purpose, no?

I probably wouldn't mind it in Japanese foods, since their "sweets" tend to be a lot less sweet than ours anyway. American sweets are ridiculously over-sweetened. There is no point in adding sugar substitutes in something that already has sugar in it. It's fucking absurd.

Re: FUCK ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS

childings.livejournal.com - 2013-06-06 04:55 (UTC) - Expand

The thing with Stevia that irks me to no end is that a teaspoon/packet is something like 2-3 teaspoons of sweetness.

So I use less. Problem solved!

(Sucralose, though, ugh don't get me started on sucralose. I Can Taste The Chlorine.)

FUCK YOU, STEVIA, BECAUSE YOU'RE A TRAITOROUS LITTLE BITCH

I'm sorry about your energy drink problems, but that's gold.

I would think energy drinks + ADD would be bad.

People with ADD (and ADHD, if I'm not mistaken) generally react in the opposite manner to stimulants than the general population. Not everyone, of course, but I know for me, the caffeine and other stimulants in energy drinks actually manage to help me focus and stay on task.

Huh, interesting. I stand corrected.

As I understand it, many stimulants have a counter-intuitive effect on people with ADD, and actually help them focus.

They're actually supposed to help people with ADD focus.

As someone who can't stand the taste of anything artificial, I agree with you.

A friend and I went on a roadtrip. Knowing I like Gatorade to drink, she brought along some. OH HAHA IT WAS G2!! That stuff has sucralose in it and I can't drink it because it just tastes so terrible. I drink diet stuff only as a complete last resort.

HFCS is artificial too (it's made from corn, but so is ethanol) so unless you were drinking some non-existent energy drink with actual cane sugar then you weren't drinking anything with a natural sweetener in it

*sports drink
Whatever you get my point

What brand was it that combines stevia and HFCS? I don't drink energy drinks but I use stevia for a ton of stuff because I am allergic to artificial sweeteners and I've never heard of stevia being combined with HFCS.

It's mostly sucralose and aspartame that I see added into already-sugared stuff. I don't see stevia around much at all, actually, and as far as sugar substitutes go, I have less of a problem with that than the artificial ones, but it still bothers me that it's touted as a "better" sugar substitute than the others because it's natural, when it still causes problems: mainly, that it still makes your body crave the calories it's expecting from something that sweet, and it kills your tastebuds from the sheer concentration of the stuff.

I admit that my anger with stevia is probably somewhat undeserved, but I'm still annoyed that companies are simply finding ways to make their food sweeter and sweeter and pretending it's "healthy."

I thought stevia was mainly for diabetics

That's why we really have artificial sweeteners in the first place anyway

aspartame fucks up with my digestion, so, yeah it can go fuck itself

can't speak for the other two, though vOv don't really drink stuff like that, since it never did anything for me (i am kinda envious of people who can get energy/focus boosts from caffeine and sugar-y drinks.)

I don't understand why you're including stevia here. It's natural, doesn't have an aftertaste, and is better for you than sugar. It doesn't have any of the side effects of aspartame, sucralose, or other artificial sweeteners.

I agree, stevia is awesome. I don't even find it all that much sweeter than sugar, it just has a different taste altogether.

One trick you could try is stop self-medicating and actually get some real help from a real doctor who can prescribe you something where you can still drink your sugary drinks. Boom. Problem solved.

that doesn't even make any sense at all

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Paying for doctor's visits and medication isn't an option for everyone.

Yeah, because drugs are always the answer. Right.

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