Sugar and salt
Jan. 11th, 2016 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcIn Britain many brands of non-diet soda contain artificial sweeteners and there is currently talk of taxing sugary drinks. The tax is a good idea and I would be happy about it if I didn't expect them to further substitute with other sweeteners. mst3kmoxie prefers to avoid artificial sweeteners because she is suspicious of their safety and, like her, I often find that non-sugar sweeteners don't quite taste right, even Stevia, which is disappointing. I am happy to have sugary drinks only infrequently but I'd rather that a few of them could just be less sweet instead of more artificially sweetened.
The same goes for salt, really. Not only do I not have much of a sweet tooth but I also rarely add salt when I am cooking. Much convenience food, especially soup, tastes too salty for me. At least there aren't strange non-salt substitutes, as far as I know. My weakness is more for foods like mature cheese.
mst3kmoxie prefers to avoid artificial sweeteners because she is suspicious of their safety and, like her, I often find that non-sugar sweeteners don't quite taste right, even Stevia, which is disappointing. I am happy to have sugary drinks only infrequently but I'd rather that a few of them could just be less sweet instead of more artificially sweetened.The same goes for salt, really. Not only do I not have much of a sweet tooth but I also rarely add salt when I am cooking. Much convenience food, especially soup, tastes too salty for me. At least there aren't strange non-salt substitutes, as far as I know. My weakness is more for foods like mature cheese.
