The Zero-Calorie Sweetener Stevia Arrives

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stevia

hello , i would like a address so i can send in a money order to order 100 pac. in a box . please leet me know

thanks

bertha

i can only come here to the library to use this computer. i will be here monday

Truvia and PureVia -- Neither True nor Pure

Truvia's first sweetener ingredient is Erythritol -- a sugar alcohol that can cause stomach upset. PureVia relies on both Erythritol and Isomaltulose. These are not true Stevia based sweeteners.

The best. truly stevia based sweetener on the market is a new one called Stevia Extract In The Raw -- made by the people who make Sugar In The Raw. Not only is it a pure, 100% natural, stevia based sweetener with no calories -- it's also much less expensive than the other two!

All stevia products not equal

Adam, your article is misleading. Stevia under the Sweetleaf brand is extract from the stevia plant and purely natural and safe. It has been used in it's native Paraquay for thousands of years. The products made by the Big Corporations are chemical imposters and another attempt by the Global Elite to poison and control us. Wake up world! The Creator gave us this beautiful planet to feed us. Corporations and the Government... it's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

truvia

I have been using the truvia brand (bought at schnucks I believe) and cannot notice any licorice aftertaste. I am very careful with sweetners in general and tend to limit my use. The less you use sweetners, the less you need.

I am happy with it so far.

I used to have a really bad sweet tooth before using stevia. I've been using it for over a year now. It took some getting used to, but now I actually prefer it to sugar. In iced green tea, it is delicious--even with the licorice aftertaste. And I don't think it's really that much more expensive than sugar. A small bottle can last for over two weeks, used several times on a daily basis. Sugar is a known poison. Get used to the taste of stevia, and save your health. I only wish I'd raised my son on it before he became used to white sugar.

Food or Manufactured Chemical?

I don't understand why the attention from FDA - This is a plant, not a chemical food additive. The FDA has not run or studied massive research on turnip greens, mustard greens, red leaf lettuce, etc., all leaf plants like Stevia. What's the difference? Would the FDA require proof of the harmlessness of mustard greens if we ground them up and sold them in little paper packets???

I'm trying Stevia powder manufactured by Herbal Authority and sold through Puritan's Pride - it's the only sweetener besides cane sugar that I have actually liked and I'm 54. With all the problems with saccharine and nutrasweet, I can't see the fuss over this plant!

the best

I have been using Stevita for 2 year snow, and I use a LOT of it. I keep my body fat under 5% most of the time, and this is the only sweetener I can use a lot of that hasn't cause any weight gain or any strange problems in health. I am not going to bash other so-called zero calorie sweeteners, but I have gained weight from them. Since I keep my body fat so low, I can tell very easily if I am gaining. I do love sweet, and when I found Stevita, I was at first skeptical, but after a month of first using it- I was still cut up with striations, no bloating, or anything. Two years later, it's a must. I go through 2,000 packets of it in a few weeks. It is expensve, but worth it. I would be so happy if this was used instead of certain other so-called no calorie sweeteners. By the way- without mentioning any other certain brands- they do in fact have calories and sugars, but according to the US Health- anything under 4 calories is considered calorie free, so using a lot will in fact add up and cause weight gain- and the same for the sugars, that they don't tell you about to sell their product. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in sweets and being able to look good and live it up.

Stevia

I have a hard time understanding why the FDA who is responsible for poisonibng us through our foods daily has any say in anything that is to be proven safe. This is the same agency that says Aspartame is safe, Chlorine is o.k. to drink, Flouride is good for your teeth. These people lead the way in the business of sickness and disease. All part of the United Fascist States Eugenics program. I'm sure Rockefellar and Morgan would be totally opposed to anything that may produce a beneficial health effect that they can't control/regulate & make millions off of. Man makes drugs, Mother Earth makes medicine.

Use caution with any new sweetner

While taking my daughter to her routine MS check up, I noticed a nurse exiting the hospital with a lighted cigarette and a cup of coffee. I reminded her that per my PCP, coffee causes fibroid tumors in some women's breast and prostate enlargement in some men. She said, "I bet you drink diet soda." She went on to say while on a field trip they took both diet soda and regular soda. They poured regular soda in an ant hill and the ants remained in the ant hill. When they poured diet soda in another hole the ants immediately exited the hill. Even the ants don't drink diet soda.

In another recent case on 20/20, they had a very articulate school teacher that was imprisioned for poising her husband with ethynol. She said, "I did not kill my husband, but he drank at least 10 diet sodas per day in which metabloizes into ethynol."

Not being a medical doctor, but a retired chief engineer in Mission Success, I do not drink any diet soda and only drink clear soda that is caeffeinne free.