Sugar-free No Tai Mai Tai

[mithriltabby]

obsessivewoman has been greatly enjoying the pineapple-free No Tai Mai Tai I developed, but laments having to rearrange her diet to accommodate all the sugar in it when I crank one out to help with a migraine. We’re both supertasters, so using sugar-free flavorings to try to make something taste sweet doesn’t really work, but using it to make something that matches an expectation of both sweet and tart seems within reach. I experimented with the sucralose-based Torani syrups to come up with this:

2 oz. orange
1 oz. lime
1 oz. mango
1 tbsp. lemon
1 tbsp. black cherry
½ tbsp. almond

Blend with shaved ice, garnish to whim. The beverage is theoretically negative-calorie, since your body has to burn energy to melt all that ice and bring the resulting water up 37°C.

All of these flavors are available as Splenda-based Torani syrups; if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can find them at the Cash & Carry on West San Carlos in San Jose.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

We’re both supertasters, so using sugar-free flavorings to try to make something taste sweet doesn’t really work

Is having artificial sweeteners taste terrible related to being a supertaster?

[mithriltabby]

Yes. The aspartame in Diet Coke tastes like kerosene, unless we have colds. I’ve had beverages that have small amounts of aspartame that taste sweet to me; my theory is that the amount necessary to taste sweet to most people just overloads the taste buds, unless there’s a coating blocking the receptors.

[engelcox.livejournal.com]

And here I just thought non-sugar sweeteners tasted bad. Interesting to know that there might be a scientific reason for my Diet Coke, et al., dislike.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Boy am I lucky the artificial ones work for me. Too much regular sugar for some reason makes my mouth feel dry. I hate regular sodas.
Those are some interesting flavors combined there. I may have to go and play.
And isn't Cash and Carry Wonderful? They are right across the street from my house.

[taeriel.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the recipe! My mom has to be careful with her blood sugar, so sugar-free drinks are a great boon.

[mithriltabby]

After I came up with the recipe, I scaled up the proportions to crank out a much bigger batch and stored it in a spare Torani bottle, to save effort later.