:Good realization for you. Those sweeteners are -- well, so sweet. This is an odd thing that has helped me as I am slowly coming off coffee and caffeine.
I put slices of lemon in my water.
At first it was oh so sour.
Then it became pleasantly sour and sort of like soda.
Today, at breakfast, the lemon water tasted really good. I almost craved it.
I am amused at my own taste buds sometimes. I was also eating Brazil nuts as part of my breakfast brown and they tasted extraordinarily good with the lemon.