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Why isn't there a 100% perfect artificial sweetener that is indistinguishable from sugar yet

>> No.11225791

Chemistry

>> No.11225792

Chemistry

>> No.11225798

Chimerstry

>> No.11225804

Chemistry

>> No.11225813

>>11225791
>>11225792
>>11225798
>>11225804
We did it reddit!

>> No.11225823

>>11225813
Don’t lump me in with the people copying me.

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>>11225813
fuck off newfag

>> No.11225836

>>11225813
reddit is a terrible soyboy ripoff of this website, faggot

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>> No.11227976

>>11225788
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

undistinguishable from real sugar in the following in my experience:
mint tea
iced black tea
jasmine green tea
yerba mate

chocolate cookies

since you usually cant buy those youd have to make these things yourself but it will help a lot keeping your dental health, diabetes and calories in check if sweet drinks and cookies are daily staples in your diet

>> No.11227999

I think Coke zero is better than regular coke in all honesty.

>> No.11228034

>>11225788
If it were indistinguishable from sugar, it would just be sugar, retard.

That said, allulose is pretty close, probably the best alternative sweetener I've had. Tastes very similar to sugar, with no gross aftertaste.

>> No.11228050

Im a fan of REAL stevia powder.

As far as I know they dont sell it in normal stores. I order it online.
The shit in stores are either full of a bulking agent or they are chemically processed so that companies can patent it.

The real shit takes a fraction to sweeten (i use about 1/4th a teaspoon to sweeten a gallon of iced tea) and has no noticable aftertaste.

>> No.11229134

>>11225788
Allulose is probably as good as you'll get. I find sucralose fine too, in that I can't taste anything wrong with it.

Stevia has a sweet flavour but is distinctly not sugar.

I find acesulfame potassium, aspartame, and sodium saccharin extremely bitter.

>>11227976
The threshold laxative effects of nearly all of the polyols/sugar alcohols are very much NOT a meme, and xylitol's threshold dose is among the lower ones (not quite as bad as mannitol or maltitol iirc?).

Except erythritol, that's much less likely to do that, you'd need like 40-50 grams of the stuff because most of it's absorbed and you use a lot less of that one.

Plus polyols tend to have that 'cooling' flavour/effect so it's definitely not sugar, but can work as part of a flavour e.g. why they're used in mouthwashes and chewing gum.

>> No.11229378

>>11225813
I'm gay btw

>> No.11229428

>>11228050

Same, but I use the liquid stevia extract that they sell at trader joes. Takes like 1-2 drops to lightly sweeten a full mug of tea, 4-5 for dessert-tier.