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Badfrog

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Well I've mixed a couple of juices, and so far they are relatively flat. I tried to make a muffin man type juice but it's not all that good. I thought I had heard that One Hit Wonder adds a lot of sweetener to that recipe? I realize that it will make the juice sweeter (duh) but how much will sweetener make the juice "pop" or bring out certain flavors? I'm wondering if I should throw in a few drops of sweetener to salvage this batch that I've made?

In the end I really don't want to add sweeteners or at least try to make the addition minimal. However, I'm 3 weeks removed from smoking and perhaps my palate is still in the gutter? Just venting a bit as I work on this "craft".
 
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I don't know how much sweetner they use but they generally use higher percentages of flavoring, including sweetners, than many DIY'er where low percentages seemed to have become a trend. And I don't know what flavor percentages you're using.

I always prefered the higher percentage of flavoring in my mixes.
 
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Depends on the juice. Don't vape much store bought anymore, but I did recently try some Milk Man "Pudding" that was just a mess of sweetener. Actually, seems to me that more commercial juices go overboard on EM than sucralose, but that Pudding was an exception.

I (personally) don't use sweetener much, because I've had more issues with it obliterating flavors than enhancing them. If I want to lay some sweetness on top of a mix (usually for my commercial juice-vaping friends who moan about my stuff not being sweet enough), I'll add very small amounts of CAP Super Sweet, like 4 drops per 30 ml. That's enough to add mouth sweetness without doing too much damage to the flavors. You could try that. CAP Super Sweet can be short-term satisfying, but it will also mute your taste buds. Put a drop on your tongue, then take a vape and you'll see what I mean. Totally wipes out flavor perception in your mouth, except for its own sickly sweetness, and it'll do the same to your juice if you use too much, but it's a much better alternative to regular "Sweetener" like TFA's, because you need so little to get results.

Post your recipe, and you'll get more detailed replies.
 
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JuicyLucy said:
I believe commercial juices use a shit-ton of sweetener - I can't hardly vape commercial juice anymore
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Agree 100%...after the taste buds have reset NO sweetener is needed here either.

I don't know how much sweetener commercial juice outfits use, I assume a shitload. Some are so sweet I have no idea how anyone could enjoy it.

You may want to add drops until the juice is sweet enough for your liking. It's easy to add, impossible to remove. Like @jambi mentioned, Capella super sweet is indeed, super sweet.
 
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There's a Betty clone (never tried it myself) on ELR that uses 15% TPA sweetner and a lot of people say its spot on, so i think they use alot.
 
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Yatervaper said:
There's a Betty clone (never tried it myself) on ELR that uses 15% TPA sweetner and a lot of people say its spot on, so i think they use alot.
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It is close ive tried the betty clones and the real deal back a few years ago. If you use a sub ohm tank get ready to throw away coils every 4hrs and rewick every 3hrs on an RDA. I mixed the betty clone for a friend months ago I think It came out to 5-6% FA Forest Fruit and .25-.5% CAPS Super Sweet. Not really sure its been a while.
 
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