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Stevia tastes better and has no insulin response.
by CyanLite4 7y ago
Stevia tastes better and has no insulin response.
- 0-_-0 7y agoIt doesn't taste better. Now, how should we settle this dispute? Pistols at dawn?
- cptskippy 7y agoAll artificial sweeteners taste off in a bad way.
- vanderZwan 7y agoAs far as I'm concerned that's the body signalling to us that we should avoid it, so I do.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoThat's my argument against broccoli.
- cptskippy 7y agoI love broccoli, I wonder what that means.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI would assume that you're not a child, but as a greater point, that something you like and I dislike doesn't mean that it's necessarily going to be bad for us because I don't like it.
- losteric 7y agoThey all taste differently sweet. If your goal is to taste sugar, obviously sugar does so best.
- Eduard 7y agoNo. Pistols at dawn.
- magduf 7y agoStevia tastes bitter and nasty. It's not even sweet.
- cptskippy 7y agoI wonder if people have dramatically different sensations to artificial sweeteners like they do foods such as Cilantro or Grapefruit.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoSounds like the perfect study for 23andme (they did a cilantro study [1]). [1] https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/the-genetics-of-cilantro-taste-preference/ https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/the-genetics-of-ci...
- snapetom 7y agoIt probably is, or really just down to personal preference. Saccharin and Aspartame are awful to me, and I could never understand how anyone can touch it. Sucarlose I can handle it up to two packets. Three, and I get the same reaction as Saccharin. Stevia by itself isn't that great, either. The only one I can use as anywhere close to a sugar substitute is Truvia, which is a Stevia/erythritol blend.
- magduf 7y agoI believe so, yes. My ex-wife used Stevia a lot and loved it. It tastes bitter and disgusting to me. Growing up, my mom always used Sweet-n-Low (saccharine sweetener) and tried to get me to use it. It always tasted bitter and disgusting to me. I'm not a fan of grapefruit either (very bitter, no sweetness). Cilantro I'm okay with though; it doesn't taste like soap to me, but to some people it does.
- coldtea 7y agoIt's supposed to be 100 times more sweet than sugar for the same amount, so there's that...
- StevePerkins 7y agoI think it depends on the application. When I drink diet soda, I find that aspartame works better than splenda... and I haven't found a stevia-based soda yet that doesn't taste absolutely disqusting. When I make a pitcher of Kool-Aid, I find that 8 packets of stevia produce a result that's better than any other sweetener I've tried (including sugar). Taste is subjective, and varies from individual to individual, of course.
- specialist 7y agoI use stevia in my trog smoothies. (Kale, ginger, coconut cream, whatever else is in the fridge.) Stevia somehow softens the sour tangy bitter acidity whatever-its-called taste of the kale.
- abstractbarista 7y agoAll sweet chemicals other than sugar taste weird to me. Stevia especially tastes like sharply-sweet chemicals. First time I tried it in orange juice I winced. I just eat sugar as it comes in today's foods. I'm really skinny so maybe I should eat more of it?
- phonypc 7y agoI've never heard of sweetening orange juice. Do you not find it sweet enough on its own?
- iamben 7y agoI'm quite the fan of erythritol. I do get a 'cool' aftertaste with it though.