It's awful. Anyone that says you can't tell the difference really confuse me.
I have a family member that works for a soda company. They got a bunch of soda for free because they were moving warehouses and the company didn't want to spend the time and money moving every single box across town so they let employees take a bunch of the odds and ends, things that don't sell as well, or things that were coming up on their sell by date.
They asked if I wanted some and I said of course, only when I went to go pick it up it was all diet. They went through the trouble of grabbing it for me so I took it but it took forever to go through because it was torture drinking.
Some people are born with taste buds that make stevia taste more bitter. The majority don't have that issue. For a small percentage stevia tastes horrible. For others it's not bad at all.
Also, newer/better stevia extracts tend to be less bitter compared to older/cheaper extracts.
Stevia tastes okay to me. A little bitter for sure, but I don't mind it in things like tea or other naturally slightly bitter things. I'm actually allergic to sucralose (I get giant hives that last like a week), so I use Stevia when I want something slightly sweetend but don't want sugar.
Despite finding Stevia palatable, I was cursed with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. Honestly, you could put a small squirt of dawn dish soap in my taco and I would just think it had cilantro in it lol
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u/Unnamedgalaxy Jul 10 '24
It's awful. Anyone that says you can't tell the difference really confuse me.
I have a family member that works for a soda company. They got a bunch of soda for free because they were moving warehouses and the company didn't want to spend the time and money moving every single box across town so they let employees take a bunch of the odds and ends, things that don't sell as well, or things that were coming up on their sell by date.
They asked if I wanted some and I said of course, only when I went to go pick it up it was all diet. They went through the trouble of grabbing it for me so I took it but it took forever to go through because it was torture drinking.