I’m not sure how much chemical tweaking they did on aspartame, but I suspect it ended up being overfitted to their test group because I can’t stand the taste of it. It just tastes a bit off to me, like there’s some undesirable chemical in there.

Stevia was disappointing for me because the ones granulated like white sugar also have that flavour. Maybe it’s from traces of whatever solvent was used to extract it from the plant.

I’d rather have water than any diet soda.