Never seen Kool-aid in Perth australia let alone unsweetened kool-aid. I’m addicted to carbs but i don’t have it in my tea or coffee.
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Unsweetened Kool-Aid is basically a really cheap way to add flavor to water, though you need to provide your sweetener of choice (otherwise it doesn’t taste very good.)
I think it’s available just about everywhere in the U.S., but I don’t know about other countries. 
I view food from a restaurant that has too much salt as potentially an attempt to hide nearly expired or just poor quality. I might enjoy a little added salt but that is very rare.
I am definitely shocked at how much sweetner some people use. I drink coffee black and like some real sugar in tea, lemonade and stevia in Dunkin Donuts iced coffee. At Whataburger, the tea is good but has too much sugar so I’ll mix 95% unsweetened with the rest being sweet. Phenylketonurics, sucrolose and other artificial stuff are absolutely avoided.
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Holy smokes, I think I need to reevaluate sugarless gum
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As it says, it’s a rare inherited disorder, not something you get from chewing sugarless gum. Unless you’re one of the few that have this condition, it’s a non-issue.
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I believe it’s for the botanical name of stevia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia_rebaudiana
I like stevia in a liquid glycerine preparation for sweetening dairy-based things like milkshakes and natural yogurt. Or in a more traditional/natural preparation you can also brew yerba mate tea (or regular green or black tea) together with dried stevia leaves. But I absolutely despise it in coffee, the bitter taste component of the stevia somehow reacts with the bitterness of the coffee and creates an even stronger bitter kick.
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Well, my thought is that if it is can do that under any circumstances then it might be worth avoiding
A very large number of foods contain phenylalanine, if you don’t have PKU, there is no need to avoid gum specifically.
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I haven’t really noticed any bitter taste in stevia. Then again, I use it only as a flavoring and not a bulk sweetener, like, I used to do a teeny bit just for the licorice taste, then the rest with sugar.
Like my daily bucket of coffee (almost literally, as the screen-thingy of my french-press busted so now I just use the glass carafe as my “mug”), I might use 4tsp of sugar (yeah, I know…) but I’ve taken to adding a drizzle of honey first, then only(!) 3tsp of sugar. (Anyone thinks that’s a lot, just lookit how much is in one can of sody-pop.)
If I use too much honey, the overly-honey-taste just kills it.
For yogurt, I just buy the plain stuff and stir in a bit of blueberry/apricot/strawberry/etc. jam. No further sweetening needed, as the jam’s already sweet.
I see, I had been mistakenly conflating phenylalanine with aspartame which is artificial. You’re right, if phenylalanine was a problem for me I’d be in the hospital by now with my diet 
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Racoon. Why this all of a sudden desire to use these sweeteners. Seems like I remember several years ago when some one suggested healthier eating habits, you weren’t having any of that. 
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I’ve been using sweeteners for well over five years.
I don’t want this discussion to be about what is healthy and what is not healthy because everyone has a different opinion of what is healthy and what is not healthy, and thus the topic is highly controversial (which was my position years ago as well, but this time I’m hopefully handling it better.) 
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UPDATE:
Before I used stevia extract, I used this liquid sucralose…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078VRVCDS/
What’s good about this sucralose is that it lasts a lot longer (per dollar) than stevia extract.
But, that sucralose has an aftertaste that I don’t like.
I was using a bit of lime juice to cover up the aftertaste.
This is the first stevia extract that I used…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MNZQPX7/
This stevia extract does not have an aftertaste, and it tastes clean and smooth.
This is the stevia extract that I started using today…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017WG1J4/
This stevia extract is about half as strong as the previous stevia extract that I tried (by volume.)
Once I run out of this item, I’m planning to go back to the other stevia extract.