I curse the government's sugar tax. All the soft drinks manufacturers have taken out the sugar and replaced it with artificial sweeteners - and I can smell them as soon as I open the bottle or carton and the taste is vile.
It is not that I drink much in the way of soft drinks, but they catch you on the sly. I buy fruit juice from the ambient shelves, not the fridges. Quite often the packet will say something like 'Mango & Papaya'. I will buy it thinking it is fruit juice. I take the lid off and the smell hits me. I examine the package and in tiny print on the back it says mango & papaya drink, so it is not all fruit juice and it is sweetened with aspartame.
The same thing happens if on a long journey we stop for a drink. It now has to be water or coffee, because all the lightly flavoured fruit drinks, I found quite refreshing, are now sweetened with sweetener.