Showdown at the Coffee Shop

[lsanderson]

BATTLING FOR YOUR TASTE BUDS From left, Sweet ’N Low (saccharin), Splenda (sucralose), Equal (aspartame) and a newcomer, Truvia (stevia), share a market of often impassioned fans.
By KIM SEVERSON
Published: April 14, 2009

BELINDA CHANG loves the balance of flavors in her Diet Coke.

EVER LOYAL “I’m a Splenda-holic,” said Medini Pradhan, who prepares dal with the sweetener at her home in Barrington, Ill.

Each can — she goes through about four ice-cold ones a day — has a reliable acid bite that marries well with the caramel taste of cola and the sweetness of aspartame. More

Comments

[carbonel]

I'm rather surprised that there's no mention of cyclamate in the article. That's still my favorite sweetener, though Splenda comes close. Time for another trip to Canada to buy more, soon.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

...another trip to Canada to buy more, soon...

Well, that's probably the reason -- nobody in the U.S. has been able to get cyclamate in too long.

While my tastebuds remember cyclamate-sweetened drinks as far superior to saccharin or aspartame or (what for me is undrinkable) sucralose, it's been so long that I can't be sure.