Concentrate Sweetness

[domejunky]

Hello All

Is it the general consensus that TFA concentrates are sweeter than Capella?

I've mixed up some Berry Crunch and Cheesecake (Graham Crust) - and they taste almost sweet enough off the bat, but some Cinnamon Danish Swirl feels like it needs some sweetener.

I'm hypersensitive to artificial sweeteners - they all taste strong and bad to me. I've had some bad experiences with pre-made juices leaving a nutra-sweet like aftertase in my mouth. I brew some Belgian beers, and make my own candi sugar for this purpose - one of the stages you go through when making candi sugar is the 'candy floss' stage - so I've ordered some cotton candy - which I've read is a 10% solution of Ethyl Maltol - i'm assuming this is an early Maillard reaction chemical in my candi sugar - and shouldn't taste of nutra-sweet. Am I right?

Is there any way I can harness my candi sugar for juice making?

 

[nikki from mars]

Stevia is another reccomended sweetener but which shouldn't taste artificial... and some really sweet flavours such as candy floss or whatever can also be used... have no ideas which flavours are sweet enough off the bat... single mix and stand alone flavours are generally what i use.. so already with sweetness added if part of the mix... and when doing fresh mixes with several flavours i just always add a few that are already really sweet...

 

[domejunky]

I tried Stevia in my Girlfriend's Coke Life - still tastes artificial to me...

 

[domejunky]

...to answer my own question - Ethyl Maltol is the way to go - no artificial aftertaste. Completely sorted my Cinnamon Danish Whirl out.