Agreed.
Aspartame gives me nasty headaches.
I use stevia when I cook but for diet drinks I have to look for the splenda ones.
Thanks Black Agnes -- I've grown Stevia before, have used the leaves here and there, not bad at all.
Same here. After a year of on again off again experimentation a few years ago, I found that aspartame gives me heart palpatations, except in small aperiodic doses. Aspartame and excessive carbs are the things I look for on food labels, and avoid.
Splenda flavored non-sugar drinks are hard to find in my area. Almost all are apartame based. The Weis Waist Watchers store brand is sweetened with them, and what I usually get.
I actually have purchased the newly formulated Diet Cherry Pepsi explicitly because they got rid of the aspartame. It's OK, but I agree the formula is too sweet. They need to cut back a bit on the Splenda, which IMHO can be pretty good unless you use too much (which Pepsi did). I use liquid Splenda to sweeten coffee as well. It's actually pretty good IMHO, but again you have to be careful not to use too much or you'll get the sickly sweet taste.