Review on Sweet Leaf stevia sweetener
of course, I may be the last person on earth to find this out, but I have so much splenda at home I never even tried stevia until I was at the local hippie-dippie organic-expensive food market, and put their (free) Sweet Leaf powdered stevia in the my tea there. (I can say hippie-dippie, I used to be one)
So I went online to search for it (cheaper) elsewhere and look at the cute little thing I found. It's a travel package the size of an altoids tin with 4 teeeeeeeeeny weeny containers of liquid stevia flavors: lemon, orange, chocolate raspberry and vanilla. These are perfect for adding to water to make your own fruit 2-O or to coffee for a flavored coffee. The sweetening is incredibly like sugar, more so than any other sweetener I've tried. Here's where I got it:
organicpharmacy.org/products/Sweet.Leaf.Liquid.Stevia.4.Pack
So I went online to search for it (cheaper) elsewhere and look at the cute little thing I found. It's a travel package the size of an altoids tin with 4 teeeeeeeeeny weeny containers of liquid stevia flavors: lemon, orange, chocolate raspberry and vanilla. These are perfect for adding to water to make your own fruit 2-O or to coffee for a flavored coffee. The sweetening is incredibly like sugar, more so than any other sweetener I've tried. Here's where I got it:
organicpharmacy.org/products/Sweet.Leaf.Liquid.Stevia.4.Pack
There are different formulations of stevia and some people swear by the pure extract while others use the dried in packets approach. I tried the packets and found it had a bit of an aftertaste for me. YMMV - I've been told it doesn't take much to alter the taste of it.
Odd that it took so long for FDA to approve this in the US. It's been used in Europe for a long time.
Hugs,
Ratkity
Odd that it took so long for FDA to approve this in the US. It's been used in Europe for a long time.
Hugs,
Ratkity
I shopped for the stevia sweetener when it first came out here at Wally World.
Truvia has sugar alcohols in it, SunCrystals doesn't. I use the SunCrystals and it is great.
I do have to use two packets to one of the the nutrisweet. But I like the flavor of it better.
I haven't had any stomach probs with the SunCrystals.
Kathy