I have a terrible sweet tooth, always have. I want to eat all the sugars and carbs and breads and pasta and on and on, but it is not good for my body, especially my blood glucose but also inflammatory type stuff. Husband feels on his ketovore eating that what inflammation issues he was having before are gone now.
TMI: I had a long period of terrible awful digestive issues, and that was after the post gall-bladder issues that lasted for years. My general doctor suggested that I try a no artificial anything diet for awhile, but particularly no artificial sweeteners of any sorts. At the same time, my sleep doctor had me go off caffeine for a year. LOL and I was eating super low carb and all in all -- that was a miserable year. But the no artificial sweeteners took care of the gut biome and stopped the constant rumbling and diarrhea. With my biome protected, I can now handle a can or two of soda a day which is a treat for me, but if I go past that my innards start protesting again.
We have both found that we can tolerate the sugar alcohol sweeteners. Is sort of a misleading term, is chemical composition -- there is no alcohol in them as we think of it. In Seattle it was pretty easy to get Coffee Syrups, here in Peoria not so much. We order a couple times a year from Skinny Syrups. The "simple syrup" is basic sugar flavor. We use them in coffee, we use them with carbonated water (we are thinking of getting a Soda Stream sort of thing), I'll even do a little squirt of something like English Toffee on my oatmeal!
https://www.skinnymixes.com/collecti...y-mixes-syrups