Sweeteners v stevia!

[Shazza41]

Hello. I've recently seen information about how bad sweeteners are for you, Canderell, sweetex, etc. I've been on them since I was 15, I'm now 42. I was diagnosed diabetic aged 24. Yesterday I bought some stevia powder for cereal and truvia tablets for drinks, both from tescos. Today I've had no sweetener only truvia in tea and coffee. I don't know if it's my imagination but my energy levels have been above normal today. I usually have a siesta on a sat / sun but today I've not felt the need. I suppose my question is what are your experiences with sweetener v stevia? Thanks

 

[JTL]

I use the half sugar thing in very small quantities.

 

[Dark Horse]

There have been a lot of scare stories about artificial sweeteners but there has been no credible evidence suggesting they are unsafe. There's a good source of information about various sweeteners here:-
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/the-truth-about-artificial-sweeteners.aspx

 

[Magisham]

There have been a lot of scare stories about artificial sweeteners but there has been no credible evidence suggesting they are unsafe. There's a good source of information about various sweeteners here:-
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/the-truth-about-artificial-sweeteners.aspx

Michael Mosley (the Fast Diet doctor) did a documentary where they had 2 groups of healthy non-diabetic people. They gave one group sweeteners like Sweetex for a week and the other group Stevia sweeteners. The ones on the stevia showed no change, but all the ones on the aspartame sweeteners had put on weight and had higher blood sugars. I have kept off them since and use Truvia now.

 

[Shazza41]

I've been using truvia / stevia for a few months now. I've cut down too so when I do have the odd sweetener (in Costa) for instance, I find it mega sweet. Defo going to stay away from the artificial sweeteners. One of the guys in work uses sweet freedom. You can buy it in Holland and Barrett. I got some sweet freedom hot chocolate in there and it's really nice.

 

[RosieLKH]

Does it taste chemically like asparteme sweetners do?

 

[Pinkorchid]

Stevia for me it is natural plant sweetener Truvia is stevia based but I heard on here that is has something else added to it so I stick to the one labelled just Stevia. I only use it to sweeten frozen fruit though sometimes that is so sour

 

[Shazza41]

I'll be honest, it tastes different to sweetener but I'm persevering with it but I'm down to one in my tea, I used to have 3 sweetener before. You can buy it in larger tescos stores

 

[Robbity]

The only sugar alternatives I'll use are stevia and erythritol. Stevia can have a bit of a strange after taste if you use too much. These are the two that have more or less no carbs and no calories either - some other sweeteners may have plenty of both.

Robbity

 

[chri5]

Michael Mosley (the Fast Diet doctor) did a documentary where they had 2 groups of healthy non-diabetic people. They gave one group sweeteners like Sweetex for a week and the other group Stevia sweeteners. The ones on the stevia showed no change, but all the ones on the aspartame sweeteners had put on weight and had higher blood sugars. I have kept off them since and use Truvia now.

I would think that for the experiment to have any real meaning you would at the very least need to monitor whole diet , exercise levels etc to ensure both groups are exactly the same. Even then you are only comparing sweetex and stevia.