I'm mostly curious about what the percentages are being used in the typical premium juice, the ones everyone loves for whatever reason.
Also, what's your favorite sweetener to use?
I stopped by a vape shop my buddy works at and asked him to let me try some of his personal favorites, and he absolutely LOVES the overly sweet stuff, as does everyone else around here.
I'm looking to bring some sweetness to my fruit flavors, but I don't want to overdo it. I know it's mostly trial and error to find your personal taste for it, I'm just wondering what you're doing.
My question is...what does CAP Super Sweet (or any other “sweetened enhancer”) offer that regular ol’ sucralose doesn’t?
Most are sucralose. TFA 5% dilution (and 5% maltol). FW 10% dilution. Cap SS 20% dilution.
I kinda figured. I use sucralose as a sweetener to stay away from sugar, so looks like I can just avoid those other products and use my own liquid sucralose instead.
Ingredients. Filter Water, Sucralose, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Succinic Acid, and Citric Acid.
Mostly water? Just go easy with it. Too much will cause some popping and will really thin your mix. And I really don't know enough about the other things. $3 for a bottle of SS is looking pretty good to me...
Edit: SS does have a couple of the same additives as liquid sucralose. The main thing is the carrier. I personally would rather have PG over water.
Capella Super Sweet. Ive tried TPAs sweetener but it only muted my flavours. Super Sweet like 0.2-0.5% its strong stuff.
I started diy a couple of months back with idi0t's sugar cookie recipe. Thought i wanted it sweeter, so made a 60ml batch with 8% super sweet. I have learnt to restrain myself since then.
Im really curious too... I just started mixing and i use TFA Meringue or TFA Toasted marshmallow (couldnt find normal marshmallow at the time i bought this). And depending on the recipe i alternate between these two at percentages between 0.5 to 2.5 to add sweetness but it also brings its own "spice" to the mix. So i am also looking for a more simple sweet flavour i could add to my recipes for that extra... I heard a lot about sucralose but i don't get if you have to buy a powdered form or if there is a special flavour from like TFA that contains sucralose only. I also heard about ethyl maltol but i try to steer clear because i heard it mutes flavours if you aren't really careful.
Liquid Stevia, .5% to 1% Better Stevia is what I have used for years. They just changed the line up and now you can get flavored, and most now use VG in them.
Interesting. I've been looking for sucralose alternative's. Where do you source your Stevia from?
I've been on a FLV Sweetness kick. It is Stevia-based, and I find it has less of an aftertaste than most sweeteners. Have been using it mostly between 0.5% and 1.5%, depending on what I am mixing. Am probably going to take a couple of other people's recipes that I've enjoyed and see how I can replace the SS that most of them use with Sweetness to see what the actual ratio would be for substitution. It is definitely less potent than SS, which (as Martha Stewart would say), is a good thing.
Just to follow-up to myself, I've been doing some experimentation. FLV Sweetness is now something that I will only be using situationally, if at all, because I am finding it to really distort at anything above .5%. I have to push higher percentages to get the sweetness to where I would want it, but then I get insane muting. Did two side-by-sides of two recent recipes that I am working on, both had been at .75% with FLV Sweetness and both were very flavorless (and neither should have been). Mixed both again with Cap SS at .25% and the were both sweeter and more flavorful. Both recipes also have fruit flavors in them, so I am not sure if that is the common thread.
2% CAP Super Sweet is pretty normal for "typical premium juice," to answer that question.
Personally, I once tried a recipe with 1% CAP Super Sweet in there that somehow worked for me, in part because it was a candy recipe. Many other times, I've found 0.5% to be too much. Depends on the recipe.
As for what is my favorite, I tend to use FW Sweetener in the 0.5 to 0.75% range.
I usually use super sweet but I was wondering about trying monk fruit has anybody tried monk fruit and if so is it a sweet as super sweet
> has anybody tried monk fruit
thank you so much for asking this as I've been curious about this as well. I just started making my own juice and coming from years of "premium" juices, I feel like I need some sweetener to bridge the gap. I do enjoy the juices without sweetener, but I feel there's just something missing.