A "too sweet" ice tea mystery at my house....Solved!

[1srelluc]

The wife makes it a gallon at a time and we like 1/4 cup of sugar per gallon to knock the edge off....She uses the Lipton 1 gallon bags.

For the past couple of weeks we have been plagued by "too sweet" ice tea.

I thought that maybe it was the sugar but all was well on that front. Then I looked at the Lipton tea bag box.

WTF....It said Sweet Tea! I read the ingredients and it was artificially sweetened in the tea bag!

I did note some aftertaste but I guess the 1/4 cup of sugar added knocked the aftertaste down a bit.

Thing was the boxes looked almost alike.

I had no idea that they sweetened tea in the bag, it never even occurred to me.

Regular:

Sweet Tea bags:

 

[MisterBeale]

Is it sweetened with sugar or that weird gunk like aspartame and sucralose? I don't mind stevia as an artificial sweetener, but those others have this weird plasticy after taste that lingers. A lot of insta-whip pressurized whip creams use the artificial stuff, yuck.

 

[The Duke]

Is it sweetened with sugar or that weird gunk like aspartame and sucralose? I don't mind stevia as an artificial sweetener, but those others have this weird plasticy after taste that lingers. A lot of insta-whip pressurized whip creams use the artificial stuff, yuck.

Sucralose hurts the back of my brain.
Stevia is supposed to be OK.

 

[SweetSue92]

The wife makes it a gallon at a time and we like 1/4 cup of sugar per gallon to knock the edge off....She uses the Lipton 1 gallon bags.

For the past couple of weeks we have been plagued by "too sweet" ice tea.

I thought that maybe it was the sugar but all was well on that front. Then I looked at the Lipton tea bag box.

WTF....It said Sweet Tea! I read the ingredients and it was artificially sweetened in the tea bag!

I did note some aftertaste but I guess the 1/4 cup of sugar added knocked the aftertaste down a bit.

Thing was the boxes looked almost alike.

I had no idea that they sweetened tea in the bag, it never even occurred to me.

Regular:

Sweet Tea bags:

Let me tell you as a Michigander? My first taste of sweet tea, Southern style, about sent me into a diabetic coma and I don't even have diabetes. Ha! That stuff is SWEET like syrup. I get the appeal, I really do, but rather than sweet tea I'll take an Arnold Palmer anytime.