Stevia 100 Pkts
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Customer Reviews of Stevia 100 Pkts
Customer Review: STEVIA NO ILL HEALTH EFFECTS!
Summary: 3 Stars
Unlike Aspartame (Equal/NutraSweet) or Sucralose (Splenda) or Acesulfame-K or any of the other dangerous chemicals that have been put in just about every food and drink nowadays, even GUM and vitamins, STEVIA is the natural extract of a sweet leaf.
Stevia has been used for THOUSANDS of years without ANY bad health or side effects.
Until just recently, Japan had a LAW that no artificial sweetener could be used in ANY food or drink! When you bought a DIET COKE in Japan, it used to have STEVIA in it! Unfortunately, now they too have been forced to put Aspartame in their soft drinks.
Stevia not only is safe for diabetics, but is actually GOOD for diabetics and helps diabetes! It does not promote tooth decay, and even though the FDA admits it is safe enough for it to be on store shelves, they will only allow it so long as Stevia does NOT say it is a sweetener, the US law says Stevia has to be called a "nutritional supplement" to satisfy the big money corperations that make Aspartame and Sucralose that pay good money to make sure the FDA does not allow any competition!
I was researching this for many years when trying to find a sugar substitute for my diabetic family member. I myself don't like the taste of Stevia because it has too much a taste of licorice, and I don't want everything I sweeten to taste like licorice. Other than that, this would be perfect and solve all sugar free problems.
So far, I have found nothing that is as good as sugar, and sugar is all I use, but for people that come over that want sugar free sweeteners, all I offer in my home is Stevia.
Not Equal, Not Sacharin.
You will never see any WARNING labels on Stevia as you do on all the other "sweeteners" that the FDA approves!!
Customer Review: misleading as a health product
Summary: 1 Stars
This Swanson brand stevia contains rice maltodextrin. I cut sugar out of my diet for health reasons and so I had to find some suitable replacement so I could still occasionally enjoy sweet things and that is how I found out about stevia. I thought I was doing something good for my health by using the stevia but then I found out that different companies mixed different things in with the stevia. It seems to be difficult to find stevia that is pure and not mixed with anything else whatsoever so you have to check around to find the best type of stevia blend. Most companies mix the stevia with something to add "bulk" and to disguise the natural bitter aftertase of stevia. Swanson mixes the stevia with maltodextrin. I was not familiar with that so I looked it up. Apparently, it is even higher on the glycemic index than pure table sugar. In my opinion that entirely defeats the purpose of even using stevia instead of table sugar when they blend it with the maltodextrin. I use Stevita brand "stevia supreme" instead and they mix theirs with erythritol, which has a glycemic rating of about 2 (pure table sugar is 100) and tastes pretty much the same as the Swanson brand stevia.
Customer Review: Has rice maltodextrin as a filler . Youtube review.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought some online in the UK, arrived in the post, I read the ingredients expecting 100 per cent stevia, and it is 80 per cent stevia, cut with rice maltodextrin.
I wouldn't mind if they cut it with something else , but that is just ridiculous.
Rice maltodextrin is worse than white sugar. On a list, white sugar was 100, rice maltodextrin was 152, for raising blood sugar. I think it was a gl or gi list.
I have gone back to using xylitol, which isn't great, but better than nay stevia I can get in the Uk at an affordable price. In the UK, the only stevia without filler is the liquid, but is too expensive. And it is illegal in the UK so hard to find usually.
I will stop using xylitol in the future, as I don't think it is a perfect sweetener however it is much better than this.
Because I am so annoyed with this I have decided to upload a youtube video.
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Customer Review: BUYER Beware...Warning Will Robinson, Warning !
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading the review that exposed the fact that this product contains rice maltodextrin, (if you don't know what that is and the effects that it has on diabetics...Google it).
I feel really ripped off! I am SURE that that is why this product is always on SALE! They are trying to dump it!!
I only discovered this minor detail after I was getting ready to reorder. It would seem to me that a company like Swanson would have enough sense to know what maltodextrin is, and that they would not sell a product like this to those wishing to control their sugar; (0r at least a WARNING in big RED letters). Of course if that did that, they probably would not sell any of this product since 99.5% of the people that purchase this product do so with that fact in mind.
WARNING: READ ALL LABELS and RESEARCH EVERY PURCHASE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BUY! Otherwise, the SHARKS will get YOU!
Customer Review: EXCELLENT sugar replacement!
Summary: 5 Stars
During my search for a good replacement for sugar, I decided to venture into the world of "Stevia". I was a former user of Splenda, Sweet + Low, etc., and frankly just don't want to put any of that junk into my body anymore if I can avoid it. I have tried many different types of Stevia, and I found that this particular brand is not only cost-efficient, but very good! Tastes just as good to me as any sugar replacement, yet without all of the crazy chemicals involved. I definitely recommend this brand of Stevia- it's convenient, it tastes great, and it won't break the bank like some other Stevia brands. You may even find yourself buying half a dozen boxes at a clip like me once you try it! :)