Fentimans ginger beer now has Stevia in.

[Camdenish]

Just that!

Nothing on the bottle to say there has been a change of recipe. It tasted so disgusting that I checked the ingredients list. Steviol (from Stevia) in it. I know it’s not an artificial sweetener but I don’t care. I want changes labelled so I don’t end up ingesting something that tastes of liquorice and gives me headaches and messes with my guts.

I will be so sad if all Fentimans drinks go this way, it’s difficult enough getting fizzy drinks that are only sugar, no sweeteners.

I once had a Fentimans lemonade some years ago while at some stately home garden event or other, and it was so lovely. Quite recently I saw some in a cafe and had it again. It wasn't anywhere near as nice as I remembered, so perhaps they've tinkered with that as well.

Thanks to this thread I went to M&S last week and I've been enjoying so much lemonade.

However tonight I found something new. I was getting a takeaway from our local independent peri-peri place and they had "Mirinda" in the list of drinks. A friend and I looked it up and it's a sweetener-free Spanish orangeade.

Adding a pic of the ingredients but one to look out for in random takeaways it seems LOL. I'll definitely be using this place more just to get this drink.