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Coffee sweetener saga continues
Jul. 17th, 2008 11:00 amHmm. I think my body knows it's being duped.
So yeah, I posted a little bit ago about the accidental no sugar creamer episode, right? But decided to go with it as it had splenda rather than something else in it? Well, the same is also true of the cocoa packets at state street, which I occasionally pour into my coffee cause it tastes yummy and generally has about the same amount of sugar I normally pour in anyway. They've got no sugar ones there as well. So we secretly swapped my normal coffee with Taster's Choice enhanced with artificial sweetener. Lets see the results.
The pros is that taste-wise, I can barely tell the difference. The con... I'm pretty sure that what's currently happening is that since everything still tastes the same, all systems are go for my morning sugar high. Which never comes cause there's no sugar. So all my brain receptors are all "...well, crap." Cue weirdly fuzzy not quite headache.
So, that's pretty much confirming that my body knows a fake when it gets one and I should just stick to real sugar (but not HFCS, definitely going to work on killing my intake of that entirely) and work on gradually reducing my intake of it. Aka, do it the hard way like I've always professed and not cheat with the fake stuff. Problem is, like most of the market for this stuff, I'm lazy and I like my sweets. Oh the dilemma. Do I stick to my quasi moralistic crusade against artificial junk food/sweetener? (I know, "artificial junk food" is kinda redundant, but for those of you well familiar with my tirades against diet soda** of all stripes, it should make sense coming from me.) Or do I give in and climb atop the bandwagon of the little yellow packet cause I've got better things to do than to suffer through black coffee for my daily functioning?
Bah.
** though I do have to forgive my Diet Coke swigging friends a little bit, seeing that I recently learned why Diet Coke drinkers tend to hate regular coke so much - it's not just a matter of sweetener replacement: they're two completely different soda formulas. Diet Coke is actually similar to the New Coke formula they tried to release in the early eighties to much public bitchitude - and both formulas were a result of Coke trying to taste more like Pepsi. The things you learn on Wikipedia.
So yeah, I posted a little bit ago about the accidental no sugar creamer episode, right? But decided to go with it as it had splenda rather than something else in it? Well, the same is also true of the cocoa packets at state street, which I occasionally pour into my coffee cause it tastes yummy and generally has about the same amount of sugar I normally pour in anyway. They've got no sugar ones there as well. So we secretly swapped my normal coffee with Taster's Choice enhanced with artificial sweetener. Lets see the results.
The pros is that taste-wise, I can barely tell the difference. The con... I'm pretty sure that what's currently happening is that since everything still tastes the same, all systems are go for my morning sugar high. Which never comes cause there's no sugar. So all my brain receptors are all "...well, crap." Cue weirdly fuzzy not quite headache.
So, that's pretty much confirming that my body knows a fake when it gets one and I should just stick to real sugar (but not HFCS, definitely going to work on killing my intake of that entirely) and work on gradually reducing my intake of it. Aka, do it the hard way like I've always professed and not cheat with the fake stuff. Problem is, like most of the market for this stuff, I'm lazy and I like my sweets. Oh the dilemma. Do I stick to my quasi moralistic crusade against artificial junk food/sweetener? (I know, "artificial junk food" is kinda redundant, but for those of you well familiar with my tirades against diet soda** of all stripes, it should make sense coming from me.) Or do I give in and climb atop the bandwagon of the little yellow packet cause I've got better things to do than to suffer through black coffee for my daily functioning?
Bah.
** though I do have to forgive my Diet Coke swigging friends a little bit, seeing that I recently learned why Diet Coke drinkers tend to hate regular coke so much - it's not just a matter of sweetener replacement: they're two completely different soda formulas. Diet Coke is actually similar to the New Coke formula they tried to release in the early eighties to much public bitchitude - and both formulas were a result of Coke trying to taste more like Pepsi. The things you learn on Wikipedia.
