>>>>>Nutrasweet is a commercial name for aspartame, which you can google out for yourself. It creates extra methanol in your blood, while impeding your natural defenses against it. You get methanol when eating fruit, but there are other things in most of the fruit that neutralize it; with aspartame, in the long run, your chances of wearing glasses before time are increasing.
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>>>>>And Monsanto keeps sticking to their old results of testing, when they were using a method which can't detect the above-normal amounts of methanol in blood. They don't really care that there are better methods developed since.
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>>>>But you can forget all that - it just tastes horrible, leaving a bitter after-taste on the palate!
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>>>Really? I thought it was the alumin(i)um from the can. But then, I haven't given it much thought - it was that one can in the last two dozen years.
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>>Well try some out of a plazzy bottle then, or one of those "hint of fruit" bottles of water, or ought with asp. in it. I'm pretty sure ali. cans are inert taste-wise, otherwise they'd never've survived as the drink container of choice. Just think of the millions of cans of beer that'll be drunk in the UK, during the World Cup, of those of Coke and Pepsi, Fanta, Tizer, Dr Pepper's, et al, et al. No-one says "Eww, I don't like the after-taste from the can!"
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>No, I'd have to say aluminium cans are NOT inert (see my reply to DK re my sister).
>I can't taste an Al. can. But I can often taste the metal of the tines of a fork if they have been rubbed against other metal shortly before using.

Yes, I read that after sending my message to Dragan. However I've never heard of your sister's problem. I get the same thing with tines of a fork, esp. silver coated ones. Lately, when forking food into my mouth I've been accidentally touching a bottom-left filling with the tines. That sucks!

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>I can also hear a TV when the picture goes bonkers (hardly happens anymore) and I can even hear the difference between the horizontal going bad and the vertical.

And you can taste colours I expect, then you hear Dave Bowie's "Star Man" ? :-)
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>Undoubtedly the vast majority do not taste the Al. of a can.