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What is a y equivalent gram of sweetener?

A cursory look says a 12oz Coke Cola has 39grams of sugar while a Diet Coke has 0.2 grams of aspartame. How would you like it to be labelled?

[Someone]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame: “Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener 200 times sweeter than sucrose”

⇒ I expect they would like to see something like “39 REAL”, respectively “40 ARTIFICIAL” on the label.

Of course there’s a can of worms in that there are multiple ‘real’ sugars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar) and producers will try to talk down that 200, but I think that’s solvable.

What’s less solvable is that producers will talk down the unit size used to compute the amount of sugar, just as they do with the unit size used to compute the number of calories.

Alternatively, this could be shown as a sweetness rating with “x% artificial” added, or just as a sweetness rating alongside the existing ‘calories’ rating.

[Schroedingersat]

> Of course there’s a can of worms in that there are multiple ‘real’ sugars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar) and producers will try to talk down that 200, but I think that’s solvable.

Total grams of sugar per 100 and total sweeteners equivalent to y grams of sucrose per 100 when both are dissolved in water would suffice.

[Schroedingersat]

Unit size should be per 100g

Talking down the 200 for asparteme is fine as long as the ratio is always the same for asparteme

[Schroedingersat]

Put a 11g/100g or whatever it works out to on both of them (or some closeish but standardized ratio for the asparteme if it doesn't work out exact).