To want to be able to buy drinks without sweetener in them?

[LittleMissGerardButlerfan]

I have noticed that lots of drinks now have it in, even the ones which aren't low sugar.

I hate the aftertaste of them, and they give me terrible wind

I don't drink tea or coffee so drink squash, but even they seem to be getting harder to find without it. I like high juice but the low sugar ones are getting more and more and it's sometimes hard to find a normal one. A lot of squashes like Robinsons have it in all their squashes.

And fizzy drinks like fanta and sprite have it, the low sugar and the normal ones now!

So AIBU to want to buy drinks with sugar in instead? Yes I know you shouldn't have too much, and try to not drink too much but I would like to have a drink of it sometimes.

My not so darling husband says that sweetener has been proved to be fine and doesn't affect people so I basically must be making it up

I have posted on sainsburys twitter and fb page asking for more squash without it but don't think it'll get me anywhere!

Yes I have signed too. I don't like the taste of it and I don't think it can be good for us in the quantities many people are now ingesting.

I recently gave up all soft drinks other than water or herbal teas. Fizzy water is good if you need something 'more'. Not having the sweetness reduced my cravings for other sweet foods and I lost half a stone in about 6 weeks just doing that. I didn't lose weight whenever I swapped full sugar for diet. I wish more places would sell fizzy water really, but at least carrying a bottle of water around instead of buying sugary rubbish has saved me loads of money.

Just to let you all know, as of October 2014, Sainsbury's lemonade now has a new recipe with sweeteners!!!!!
They say that if they get lots of comments about this, they may go back to the old recipe

If you want to be sure you're not getting sweeteners/additives you could JUST DRINK WATER.

I won't buy drinks with artificial sweeteners in either. They give Dh a thumping headache and I don't like the after taste.
I buy Ribena and the Asda brand of High juice squash, the Orange Mango and Florida Orange are both lovely, and cheaper that the name brand stuff. They make them with aspartame in too so check the bottle.

Sainsbury have a great policy of using sucralose as a sweetener and have banned the dangerous aspartame sweetener from all their own brand drinks.

For this reason I always buy sainsbury own brand.

Ribera has aspartame. I couldn't believe how much it made my skin itch until I stopped drinking it.

I too absolutely loathe artificial sweetener in anything.
Finding a soft drink fit for human consumption is nigh impossible, so I now make my own.
And it's quite simple.
Obviously there's the soda stream, which isn't that cheap or there's the DIY soda stream.
I buy sarsaparilla concentrate, which comes in a small jar and looks like a paste.
Instructions are on the jar to make cordial, using water and sugar, which gives you the opportunity to adjust the levels of sugar.
My tip here is to maintain the ratio of sugar to water so as to keep the cordial free of fungal growth for longer. So if you halve the sugar, you'll need to halve the water.
You'll make a couple of bottles, although again, I'd advise not making too much cordial as it doesn't keep forever.
Now reach into your fridge and get the bottle of sparkling water I didn't already mention and add it to a measure of your cordial.
I promise you will not be disappointed and will find it at least the equal of anything shop bought.
Once you realise it's all just sparkling water and sugar with a tad of flavour, there should be no stopping you from creating your own bespoke pop.

I've recently suffered from hyperemesis and the only thing I wanted to drink was fizzy cloudy lemonade but took me bloody ages to find it. I used to love coke but have gone right off it post HG. It makes me so made as I can't stand the taste of sweeteners, don't drink tea or coffee and slowly all my favourite soft drinks have been ruined! Glad to see a thread where we can rage about this (and for some constructive suggestions!).

I buy juice and dilute with water so it's used like a squash really. Plenty of 100% fruit juices around.

I guess it's more expensive than squash but I don't fancy squash very often so it takes ages to get through a bottle and doesn't work out as too big a cost for me.

15 years or so ago I worked in food science and acesulphame k (or acek as its sometimes called) was shown to shrink rats testicles when consumed in high doses (information that came to me - I did not feed rats sweeteners!). As this crap is now in everything I do worry about the levels we consume. I ban it all as much as possible but these things are sneeky.

Its a problem but you can avoid them if you read the lables. Dont know why companies do it

Somebody call Rick Grimes, because this thread is a ZOMBIE!

I can taste sweeteners. Vile! I used to love tesco and Aldi Apple high juice. Then they made it a 'blue lid' (I.e fucked with the recipe and substituted sugar with sweeteners. I was heartbroken! BUT - tesco have reverted back to the original recipe now! Yey!

www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/lemonade/sainsburys-lemonade-2l-6319043-p-44 sucralose but no aspartame

I make elderflower champagne (not for kids though as it can be alcoholic depending on the amount of yeast of the flowers. )

water sugar, lemon juice. elderflowers and old pop bottles. to store.

www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/squash/sainsburys-high-juice-pineapple--peach---passionfruit-1l

Where do you get your sarsaparilla concentrate from Tuppence?

I realise this is a zombie thread, but now it's come up again I remember how hard it was at one time trying to find sweetener free drinks for DH. It never made sense to me that an artificial sweetener would be healthier than a natural one and he hates the aftertaste of sweeteners. Thankfully sense has prevailed and there is more available again.

We have stopped stocking lucozade in our shop because customers kept bringing it back because it tastes horrible now because of the reduction of glucose & addition of two sweeteners
the diabetes uk website has had to warn people about it & has complained to the lucozade makers.

I read an interesting article in the FT recently that explained the use of sweeteners & the 2015 sugar price war

Tattyhabits
I would be careful because stevia is now in most drinks ie all the nestea are now stevia.

I wish I could find a lemonade (the fizzy clear stuff) without sweeteners.

Have given up buying mixers, cans of fizzy etc. but just sometimes would like to make a Snowball with the bottle of advocaat I was given, or an ice cream soda with normal fizzy lemonade as a treat.

I miss Lilt and Orangina.

Sweeteners are poison. Aspartame is banned in the US

No they aren't, and no it isn't.

I don't like the taste of sweeteners and don't buy them, but people do talk an awful lot of shit. You've been swayed by internet hoaxes and fake science.

who dug up the zombie?

Why not just have water as your main drink? Problem solved. I don't understand why people hydrate themselves with these kind of drinks?