Soft drinks without Aspartame

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I was drinking diet soft drinks as I thought they were slightly healthier. Now I've been hearing a lot of bad reports about Aspartame, which is the sweetener that they use in a lot of these drinks.

It seems to be in so many drinks. And so many studies show that it's not good for us.

Has anyone found any nice drinks to drink that don't have aspartame in them?

If your mum is drinking four litres of tonic a day I'd be worried about diabetes more than hearing loss OP. That is

Yeah I used to aswell.

We used to drink a lot of it as we thought it was better for us than soft drinks.

You can buy a one litre bottle of tonic water from Tesco for about 30p.

We used to stock up on it and drink it every day.

I used to sip from a bottle all day wil working from home

As we thought we were being healthy drinking it

I think they changed that too

I don't have any sweeteners at all because they all give me the raging shits. I'm not a squash drinker but if I want a fizzy drink I have a cawston press, appletise or sparkling water. San pellegrino also do one which is just sparkling water and fruit.

“Debunking” aspartame? How does that work when there are people who get immediately ill upon consumption?

for me it is a migraine. Tiny bit of aspartame = horrible migraine with vomiting.

After years of terrible migraines my husband realised Aspartame was the trigger. He hasn't had a single attack since he stopped drinking anything that contains it.

You can also get cordials from Polish supermarkets, Lowicz is the name. They never had sweeteners in. Some Asda and Sainsbury’s have them too but not a big selection.

Irn Bru 1901. Not sure how widely available it is outside Scotland but it is the original recipe, full sugar and no caffeine.

Great name too!

@OneDandyPoet
I never said they don't have sweeteners, I said no aspartame.

That’s simply not true they have a range of their own brand made with just regular sugar - yellow band around label

ingredients in the blackcurrant Ingredients
Blackcurrant Juice from Concentrate (50%), Water, Sugar, Flavourings, Citric Acid, Preservatives (Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Metabisulphite), Plant and Vegetable Concentrates [Carrot, Hibisc

If you're really that worried, just stick to water!

There are at least as many health repercussions from the sugar in "full fat" pop as the sweeteners in diet pop I'm sure!

Stevia in its natural form is not considered to be safe for consumption.

In order to have GRAS status it has to be heavily processed to remove everything but the steviol glycosides which are considered safe at the moment.

To me it has an unpleasant liquorice after taste.I can always tell if it's in something

A fresh like and soda, thinking of it actually makes me salivate. Squeeze a whole like with old of those proper pressers and then soda and ice. If you want it sweeter I guess you could add a bit of agave in there, chuck some mint in and it's a virgin mojito

Benson's Totally Fruity , so delicious

This is what to look for on the Asda High Juice with no sweeteners

Apologies, I stand corrected.

If you're really that worried, just stick to water!
No chance, deaths from consuming too much water are quite common.

Has sweetwner

Stevia is in most drinks nowadays, it is not "natural" it has a patent and contains a lot of "unatural stuff" to process it .

Stevia doesnt taste good either, it tastes overly sweet and has a weird mouth feel.
I think some manufacturers are not including it in ingredients . I came across a drink called FHIRST that had "Leaf Infusion (Water, Sweetleaves)" which turned out to be stevia!

Following- as I hate any drink with sweetners or man-made chemicals. I tend to drink fruit juice with soda water and a splash of lime juice. Otherwise its coffee, water, tea or wine.

Thank you!

Appletiser
Capstone Press
Decent quality cordial like Waitrose, Belvoir or Bottle Green with carbonated water

I'm trying to wean myself off fizzy drinks because they're no good for you but it's nice to have something occasionally without the horrible sweetener aftertaste.

Grow fruit bushes or fruit trees and make your own is safest nowadays.

Some Bottlegreen now contain Stevia. Apparently can be listed as ‘natural flavouring’. Screenshot attached of a reply to a customer query about sweetener: