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what you think about stevia? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago by edvardgm@lemm.ee to c/ask@lemm.ee

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"modern healthy artifical sugar", sure maybe we can find some artifcal sugar that is healthy, but idk, the internett doesnt say much about it other then some health benefits.

do you think i should chose stevia over aspartam and acesulfam k for example?

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[–] accideath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

First of all, stevia is not artificial but actually plant based as well. It‘s fairly healthy.

As for usage as sweetener: I like sweetening my tea with it. It tastes different than regular sugar of course, but I prefer the taste over a lot of other sweeteners, especially artificial ones like aspartame (which I loathe), safe for maybe Xylitol and Erythritol (which are sweet poly alcohols, also non artificial but less sweet and less healthy than stevia, albeit probably still a lot better than sucrose and which taste very nice, imo). At some point I actually got used to stevia so much, that normal sugar tasted a little weird to me.

As some other comments mentioned though, for cooking and baking it doesn’t work as well. Xylitol and Erythritol may work better there (haven’t used them in baking but worked well for tomato sauce).

So, long story short: if you like, or can get used to the taste of stevia, it’s a great sweetener. Also look up Xylitol and Erythritol, if you haven’t yet, they’re also pretty great.