No, yes. Mud relies on the useful properties of water: Sugar (and salt) dissolved in water reduces its freezing point by 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Why? Solubility like sugar is a messy agent. The sugar molecules move randomly, refusing to dissolve into ice, and interfering with the ability of water to form hydrogen bonds and convert crystals. Some water molecules freeze, but sugar water does not. Tada! mud.
If you try to mud with sugar-free soda or anything without sugar, ice crystals can easily form. The stainless steel frozen core will ice on the auger, ice or blocks will collect mass in a muddy machine. The cylinder will start to shake, and the machine will be clumsy, and then eventually you may break the machine: the low-sugar fail-safety measures on these devices are not too reliable. So don’t do this!
This doesn’t mean you’re destined to be a lot of calories if you want to make mud. Not every artificial sweetener reduces freezing point appropriately, but the amount of sweetness recommended by Ninja for diet mud is a morphous shape, a rare but natural sugar sugar that is as sweet as alkaline sugar but is not effectively metabolized through the human digestive system. This means it has a low calorie content and does not cause insulin spikes, but like many dirty substances, be aware that side effects may include bloating or GI troubles in some people.
For the simplest mud, buy liquid vocabulary. Powder plates are also present, but to use them you need to help dissolve the powder by heating it in water, then cool it and then let it cool. If you just try to pour the alkylene-elastic powder into the machine with some dieting cola, it may not dissolve and you may still get the formation of ice. Or at least, when I try it on a ninja, I definitely still create ice and have to stop my machine.
