One Teaspoon of Sugar - what's your BG like before and after?

[Breck Lundin]

Not a problem. I wasn’t trying to be a grammar nazi, just confused as I thought that’s what you meant. I only asked as I’ve not found anything much here in the uk on supermarket shelves that uses erythritol or xylitol (other than chewing gum). It tends to be the more reactive sugar alcohols. Stevia of all forms I can find in the UK (and I bought them all) for me has that awful aftertaste even in tiny amounts. I tried them all as it would have been my first choice being a plant fairly directly used.

If you are managing just fine without them then no issues and that’s ideal. If you are still trying to find sugar alternatives then specifically finding erythritol on its own and trying that might be worth it.

np, i get it, for us small details can matter a great deal.

I learned to enjoy stevia. I use am extract made of the whole plant in alcohol not glycerine (evil for my BG). I experimented amd learned to count drops. Depending on the food it's being added to. Strong flavors like coffee, lemonade, very strong iced tea are easy It's the other foods i might use it in that can go wrong...very bad bitter kinda wrong.

For me i have grown fond of the taste actually. I love it in my smoothies or cold coffee drinks I make.

I'm a bit frustrated though, i occasionally experience very, very high BG spikes after just plain black coffee. Still experimenting with to see some sort of pattern.

I carry my dropper bottle of stevia everywhere i go. Could have smacked the kids at our newest Starbucks the other day. Asked if their chai tea had, had vague memory it did, kids all said no...i was correct and my handy-dandy G5 & Xdrip+ let me know very quickly. Went and adked the staff again this time answer was yes...order taker had the odd notion i asked if they add sugar... sigh, where i live there are "issues" in terms of comprehension. Small valley kinda place near Vandenberg AFB. We did get to watch first had the entire launch to landing on land. It was magnificent yet surreal. sorry, i can ramble... opps.