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Tea and liquid candy

If you had asked me ten years ago if I would drink diet soda, or any drink without sugar or with a sugar substitute, I would have laughed and said, "Of course not!" I couldn't stand the taste of diet drinks. But now? All I drink is diet soda. I can't drink regular Coke or Pepsi because it just tastes too sweet and syrupy (same thing with milk - I only drink non-fat milk now because whole milk tastes like heavy cream or something).

But there's one drink where I just can't bring myself to drink in a diet or sugar substitute version: iced tea. In fact, I can't even stand "real" iced tea. It just tastes like ... well, a cold cup of tea. Give me the sugar-filled packaged stuff any day. Over at The Atlantic, Cory Kummer has a piece (subscription required, but there's an excerpt) on the amount of sugar they're putting in soft drinks, diabetes, and how one of the world's oldest drinks might help solve the sugar epidemic problem.

Filed under: Science, Magazines, Drink Recipes

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