Sweeteners

"Cubit" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

I have found that mixing liquid Splenda with saccharine makes a better
tasting sweetener.

Cubit
3112/213/165

Yup! Synergistic sweetening! Combining two different sweeteners (such
as stevia + acesulfame-k, saccharine + aspartame, etc.) may produce a
disproportionately sweet taste per amount of each sweetner. Hence the
use of combinations of sweeteners by product manufacturers.

Cubit said:

I have found that mixing liquid Splenda with saccharine makes a better
tasting sweetener.

Mixing various sweeteners tends to cover their individual failings,
and often taste sweeter than the same amount of only one kind.
Pepsi One and Jello and Royal use an aspartame and ace-K (sold as
Sweet One in packets) blend, for example.

A little well-refined stevia extract (I use NOW brand "potent white
extract" powder) is a good mix with other sweeteners, because it has
more of a strong sweet aftertaste than a sweet taste, so it carries
through with sweeteners to taste more like sugar. A pinch (of this
brand) about the size of a dried split pea is roughly equivalent to a
packet of sweetener, and about 1/4 teaspoon can replace about a half
cup of Splenda in large recipes, reducing the Splenda carbs.

I suggest this brand of stevia, because it's relatively cheap,
(about $6 for one ounce of powder, about 1/2 a cup)
and often found in expanded supplement/natural foods sections
of supermarkets.

Stevia varies *very* widely in refinement, concentration and
off-tastes from brand to brand. Many of them have a strong
licorice-like taste. My husband and I taste no off-tastes in this
brand.

I use about a teaspoon of liquid saccharin, and 1/4 teaspoon of
this stevia in unsweetened Kool-Aid, for a carb-free drink.
The strong sweet aftertaste of the stevia covers any bitterness
of the saccharin, and the saccharin provides the sweet foretaste
that the stevia lacks.

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