You are lucky, I guess. I can taste the difference. Drinking sugar free stuff is like drinking poison. So one wonders just why they can’t cut sugar or corn syrup in half. My other half cuts sugar by half in most recipes and things taste just fine. Wonder why they can’t do that with soda drinks.
Math time: 28 grams a day times 365 Hmmmm.
453.6 grams to a pound, 31 grams in a troy ounce
One per day equals 28X365 or 10,220 grams per year assuming no other sugar intake. That is a big assumption.
10220/453.6 equals 22.53 a far cry from fifty pounds. Or my math is screwed up. Could be.
Speaking of math. Mistake number one, Pepsi has 41 grams, not 28. Must have gotten that one off of Gator Aid. Nope, Gator Aid 14 grams per 8 oz
“So one wonders just why they can’t cut sugar or corn syrup in half.”
Sales.
Years ago, Pepsi marketed a Pepsi that was half real, half diet. 60 calories a can, and I couldn’t tell the difference between it and real Pepsi - but no one bought it.
Baskin-Robbins once marketed diet ice cream, only to find it both didn’t sell, and hurt sales of their regular ice cream.