Aspartame Free Lemonade?

pulliptears

Does such a thing even exist anymore? Being as Christmas is coming I really fancied a snowball so headed to Tesco drinks aisle for a bottle of lemonade. I am incredibly allergic to aspartame and I was amazed to see that every single bottle of Lemonade my store sold contains the stuff now. R Whites and Schweppes are probably my biggest disappointment, Schweppes was always on my safe list but looks like they have succumb to cheaper ingredients too :mad:

So here I sit, snowball less. If you have lemonade in your cupboard can you check for me please and help me track down a brand that I can actually drink?

TheSaint_2

Last time I checked they had started to go back to sugar (I posted a praise for Tesco for having gone back). However if they have reverted - get down to Lidl they do a really nice full sugar lemonade for about 50p - same for orangeade too.

pulliptears

TheSaint wrote: »

Last time I checked they had started to go back to sugar (I posted a praise for Tesco for having gone back). However if they have reverted - get down to Lidl they do a really nice full sugar lemonade for about 50p - same for orangeade too.

I've just checked every bottle in Tesco and its in them all, had a craving for a snowball lol.
I checked all in Aldi as well and they also all contained aspartame. I will head to Lidl then, thank you!

So annoying when they do this, its not a nice ingredient at all.

TheSaint_2

It is strange - this is the one I usually buy from Tesco:
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=256400215

And it has no aspartame. I did look for it last week and couldn't find any in stock though - so I headed over to lidl.

miniemma

I gave up on lemonades years ago, Schweppes were the last to go I think. I just buy 7-up or Sprite, please tell me they've not changed too?

pulliptears

TheSaint wrote: »

It is strange - this is the one I usually buy from Tesco:
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=256400215

And it has no aspartame. I did look for it last week and couldn't find any in stock though - so I headed over to lidl.

Ours didn't have that in stock, just the diet version which did contain it. I wanted the normal stuff really rather than cloudy, but ill check that one if they have any in

miniemma wrote: »

I gave up on lemonades years ago, Schweppes were the last to go I think. I just buy 7-up or Sprite, please tell me they've not changed too?

7-up and Sprite are safe, but not proper lemonade Fanta changed to aspartame about 2 years ago as did all varieties of Tango both full fat and diet.

zorro10

yes i get lemonade from Lidl too
i bought 1 just this week and it has sugar not aspartame

Azari

I had the same problem with tonic water years ago.

I liked the very occasional G&T but it seemed that they started putting saccharine in all of them, not just the diet ones. I found the taste of saccharine dominated the drink so had to give it up. If they now use aspartame I might try again.

pulliptears

Excellent! I have a few places to try as I've also been told Asda sell a Lemonade thats free of the stuff as well!
Thanks guys, I shall be sat here with a snowball tomorrow night afterall haha

soolin

Snowball- yum. I thought I was the only person still to be making them.

I hope you get yoru lemonade sorted out !

Olokia

Sainsbury's Diet Lemonade uses Sucralose only and the full fat version doesn't as far as I can tell.

The ingredients for the full fat one are:
Carbonated Water, Sugar, Citric Acid, Acidity Regulator: Sodium citrate; Preservative: Potassium Sorbate; Natural Flavouring.