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Best Sweetener Recommendation

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Johnboy59

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Always hated these tiny pills, however they might become my best friend now I'm a T2er!

Please put me out of my sugarfree misery and tell me one of the makes is actually ok!

Your recommendations please? :thumbup:
 
Don't use them myself but I'll 'bump' your post up the forum.
 
i buy ours at lydls...cheap and not too sweet as some amd i think have no aftertaste....now i m no baker puddings or cake maker but if need be i use the half sugar/half sweetner stuff...just use half the amount xxxxx
 
The best sweeteners are the cheapest and that generally means supermarket own brands. They all come out of the same factory so why pay for the marketing and advertising budgets of the leading brands? (but if people like to waste their money its their choice).
 
Avoid Aspartame, my wife has a sensitivity to it and developed all the physical sytmptoms of type 2 Diabetes but her blood sugars were normal, after about six weeks of tests a friend of our told us about sensitivity to it, we cut it out of her diet replacing it with an alternative and after another couple of months everything returned to normal.

She had a reoccurrence a while ago and we found one of the drinks she was having had gone over to using it, we cut that out and she is ok again now.

Despite what HM govt and the USA say anything that puts Methanol and can't be that good for you. Aspartame has a reported 92 side effects many relating to Diabetes and MS.

However the alternatives aren't exactly saits either but personally I would rather use a Sucralose sweetner that an Apsartame one, so am very careful where we buy sweetened products.
 
You need to check what chemicals are actually in each brand and decide which suits you. There are;sacchaarine, aspartame, sucralose and Stevia, all generally available. I personally don't like the taste of Aspartame and saccharine, so I have Sucralose based or Stevia based.that's purely personal! However I buy my Stevia in powder form on-line. It is pricey. I intend to try growing it next year.
Disregard anything you read about chlorine in sucralose, it's written by people who have no concepts of basic chemistry and is scaremongering.
Hana
 
The best sweetener is Xylitol by far, tastes like sugar, behaves like sugar & has no aftertaste.You can get it at Holland and Barret: http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=605&searchterm=xylitol&rdcnt=1
 
I like Asdas own as it's made with sucralose which I personally find tastes great in tea, coffee, porridge etc.

It's much cheaper than Splender.
 
I've had really bad reactions to some sweeteners. I think Sorbitol is the one that I've reacted to the worst ... and I reacted instantly. I spent 3 days in the loo after eating 3 diabetic sweets that had Sorbitol in them. Never again.

I find I'm OK with the powdered Splenda because I can control how sweet I want my tea with that. So far no nasty side effects.
 
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