Nicks sweetener drops

[Jo_the_boat]

Any feedback / comment of these?:

 

[Oldvatr]

It seems to be stevia in water., OK for those that like the taste of Stevia, but most commercial stevia products are blended with other sweeteners like erithitol or sucralose to improve their marketability. Being a liquid it does not need bulking agents, or stabilisers. Presume the ascorbic acid is to mask the bitter taste. Wonder what the shelf life is.

 

[MissMuffett]

I’ve not heard of those. I use granulated erythritol and got used to the cool aftertaste. It helped me over a hurdle when I first went low carb but use it less and less now.

 

[Robbity]

I've not used that brand, but for most of my T2 life I've used similar (more or less) pure stevia drops to sweeten drinks without any problems. I currently use drops from a UK firm NKD Living (bought via Amazon) which appears to have the same 3 iingredients. Just be aware though, that "neat" stevia is extremely sweet which can be an acquired taste, and does not suit everyone .

For food./baking I use granulated erythritol or erythritol/stevia blends.

 

[Dereece47]

I’ll have to take a miss on this one if it is pure stevia I’m allergic to stevia. Like Miss Muffett I purchased granulated erythritol recently and just need to slip it into my Red Velvet Cake. Unfortunately my recipe comes out of a packet called Betty Crocker and is probably packed with sugars. I just need to find a stevia, aspartame, ace K, saccharine free…. I find that manmade artificial sweetners leave a bitter taste and extremely dry mouth. Even Stevia you buy in the shops is a chemical formula. What they producers have done is extract the sweetness molecule. The chemical formula for Stevia glycols is C20H30O3. I found this tidy bit on the net whilst researching Stevia allergy. If it is Stevia Glycols that is artificial. If glycols are not mentioned then the sweetness comes from the leaves of the stevia plant which has a slightly bitter aftertaste in some people. The problem here in the U.K. the dreaded sugar tax that was meant to be abolished under Boris Johnson because of the drinks that were meant to have reduced sugar it reducing the sugar content and not bulking up the rest of the sweetness with artificial sweeteners. Cordials have been sweetner free. Then gradually they started to add artificial sweeteners well before the sugar tax. The ones that made my blood boil are the 40% hi fruit that were free of artificial sweetners and found out that Sucralose was being pumped into the formula. My stevia allergy was found when the M&S cordial after years of taking a stand that people should be able to drink what they want like with the Coke brand. Then whilst I was in hospital I had this new version of the same 40% fruit drink. They had used stevia. Literally coming out of hospital I was in blotches everywhere. I told M&S that they needed to report as a yellow flag. No we can’t do that unless we look at your medical records and that the allergic reaction was to one of our products etc….. I wasn’t after compensation I was just making them aware that there should be a warning that there are rare side effects. I gave up. Then 3 months later I eat something that secretly had stevia in it. Luckily my dermatologist wanted to see PDQ and I was in hospital the next day with checks done. Yeap it was stevia.