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by jeroenhd 716 days ago
You're just unlucky. The taste issue is determined by genetics [1], although the grossest taste is often the result of sweeteners combined with aspartame, like Ace K.

Sweetener mixes are made so that most people will not taste a gross aftertaste. Some people will experience a bitter aspartame taste, and others will experience a very chemical aftertaste for other sweeteners, but the majority of the market doesn't.

[1]: https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/38/5/379/360864

1 comments

>You're just unlucky.

Story of my life.

On the contrary, I think we are extremely lucky for not being able to stomach aspartame.