Oh my! The little bottle I use, 50 ml size, says it has 160 servings! Ok, I’m pretty sure that’s a bit of a stretch. But it does tell you the serving size is pretty small.
I originally asked, what is a ‘squirt’. I like having statements quantified(?, is that the right word? I’m still having my coffee, but fully awake yet). To me a squirt is what happens when I squeeze it until it stops on its own. That pressure can vary day to day, and might depend on how much is left in the container as well. I finally came to a conclusion the other day. I’ll let Hysteresis decide for me. That’s one of those $100 scientific words that really pays for itself by describing a complicated condition of physics. Not complicated once you understand what it means, but trying to describe it as an everyday function, in layman’s terms, can take a sentence or two. Or more if you try to explain it to my Mom (love you Mom 
).
Hysteresis, basically, is the effect of overriding the resistance of force to an action. The best physical example I can think of is an old IBM type PC keyboard from the 1980’s. The really heavy ones that might break a two if it fell on your foot. Made out of a steel plate, with some plastic attached. And a long coiled up cord like that of an older rotary dial telephone hand set. The kind that gets tangled up in knots while you use it. /verbose -off ( ahem, sorry) so when you used this old style keyboard, you could touch the keys, without sending a keystroke out. If you slowly applied pressure, you could feel the Metal spring, under that key, give more and more resistance until it suddenly no longer gives resistance and all of that built up pressure you are applying at that moment is released in an instance and the key strikes down with a satisfying ‘CLICK’. Almost like flicking a switch. See what I mean about a word that conveys a lot of meaning. I love that word.
So, Hysteresis plays a role in this little bottle I discovered. As I squeeze it, I can feel the pressure build up. I squeeze slightly harder and harder, ever so slightly, and nothing happens until ‘squirt’. At which point the amount of pressure to over come the force opposing the squirt is reduced to near zero force now, and it will continue to squirt with nearly no effort. So I learned to release at the moment of overcoming Hysteresis.
Do the other day I was about to add one squirt in my coffee, and I was wondering just how much was really realeased. So I squirt it into my tablespoon. It was more than a few drops. But would probably take several squirts to fill that spoon, probably about 10, give or take a few.
Looking at it sitting innocently in my spoon made me wonder what it tasted like. I heard it was super sweet. Especially since such a small volume was all I needed for my big double sized coffee. 
it was horrid. It was extremly bitter. It was one of those times when an old mechanical term came to mind about using grease on an axel. Less is more.
Ok kids, you have a new word for the day, Hysteresis, use it wisely, because people will look at you funny when you do. 
