Stevia is just fine for me kind of sweet if you don't over do it,
but I have known others with the same reaction as yours.
I also like licorice,
but cilantro barely tastes like anything to me
a garnish with nothing to distinguish it from random yard clippings.
I’ve never noticed an aftertaste.
Anything with aspartame in it seems to make me immediately feel nauseous. Not sure if I’m an outlier here.
No, I get that as well. It's subtle, but real.
When Coca Cola released their Stevia sweetened "Coca Cola Life", I thought this was a great compromise between taste and calories. I drank quite a lot of that stuff, and suddenly, from one day to the other, the taste absolutely disgusted me. It just felt horribly artifical, and until today it sends a shiver down my spline just seeing those bottles in the supermarket. No idea what made my brain switch.
Definitely not the only one. Stevia instantly and completely ruins the taste of anything it's in for me, so when I'm looking at energy or hydration drinks I always have to check the labels carefully. Gives me a bit more empathy for people with more serious allergies and sensitivities, I guess.
A percentage of people get a bitter taste from stevia. It depends on the person. I think that’s a big reason why it hasn’t replaced standards like sucralose.