Diet Dr. Pepper is okay if there’s nothing else. It has the least aftertaste of any of the other diet drinks.
I remember when sodium cyclamate was used to sweeten diet soft drinks back in the 60’s and very early 70’s. Diet drinks actually tasted good with no aftertaste at all! It was used for ‘Pre-Sweetened Kool-Aid’ and everything else that diabetics could not drink or eat that required sugar because it wouldn’t lose its sweetening power even when baked.
But then some researcher discovered that if you fed a boxcar load of it to a rat it died of cancer and was removed from the market.
If it was invented today, it would be allowed for consumer use because the rules have changed and the old test methods are no longer in effect.
But because the Aspartame, Equal, Sweet-n-Low, and other zero calorie lousy sweetener manufacturers have such pull on Capitol Hill it will never be allowed again.
If Moochelle was really serious, and I mean really serious about getting Americans to stop using sugar, then she would be pushing this old artificial sweetener to be put back on the market.................
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_cyclamate