Sweetener - which is the best tasting?

Lifestyle0

Sorry if there’s already a thread on this one 😬, but I have trouble with sweeteners, I always find they make food taste even worse? Like that awful aftertaste?

What brands do u guys use?

kshama2001

Are you referring to artificial sweeteners? They are all nasty IMO.

• For tea, I just tapered down to 1/2 teaspoon sugar per teacup (14 oz).
• For coffee, instead of sugar I add chocolate protein powder that has some stevia in it.
• I'm ok with stevia in certain conditions, like Whole Food's Chocolate Whey protein powder and the Celestial Seasonings tea that adds it.
• I've tried other protein powders with stevia that I didn't like - I think Whole Food's vanilla PP.

CarvedTones

I also prefer sugar; just getting used to less of it.

OddDitty

I use stevia for hot drinks, etc. But for baking, depending on what I bake, I use splenda for baking or splenda regular

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vanityy99

I use stevia, can’t use it in coffee though because I don’t like the taste I use skinny girl syrups instead.

apullum

I use liquid sucralose. I haven’t noticed an aftertaste with it. I also have some teas that include monk fruit. I’ve never liked stevia at all.

GottaBurnEmAll

I also use liquid sucralose. It's truly a zero calorie sweetener. I get it from Amazon. Other artificial sweeteners have an aftertaste to me.

You might feel differently, though. This is one of those things where tastes really vary.

longbranch92

I use Erythritol. It’s a natural sweetener that looks and tastes like granulated sugar. It’s expensive so I use it sparingly.

777Gemma888

longbranch92 wrote: »

I use Erythritol. It’s a natural sweetener that looks and tastes like granulated sugar. It’s expensive so I use it sparingly.

This⬆ or monkfruit or Swerve. Really depends what the stores have stocked.

I haven't really been drinking coffee lately or eating/ baking, so I haven't really needed that added sweetener.

Cahgetsfit

sugar!

Kalex1975

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

I also use liquid sucralose. It's truly a zero calorie sweetener. I get it from Amazon. Other artificial sweeteners have an aftertaste to me.

You might feel differently, though. This is one of those things where tastes really vary.

Count me in on the liquid sucralose bandwagon. I also order mine on Amazon because the stuff available at the supermarket (liquid Splenda) is pretty expensive.

dmz1983

I try to vary my sweetners. I use almost exclusively sugar free varieties. I use stevia from Whole Leaf-packets. I also like the chocolate and the english toffee liquid versions for coffee. By the afternoon, I switch over to Splenda. Splenda tastes good and is wonderful for baking. I think I am one of the few that has a hard time with Stevia being a major diuretic as well as lowering my blood pressure too low. That's why I switch over in the afternoon or I'm up all night peeing!

Noreenmarie1234

I LOVE truvia and found it is the best tasting with least aftertaste. I also love plain stevia powder from any brand. I have found the pure stevia powder tastes the same, but it is an acquired taste and very strong. Truvia, however, is very similar to sugar especially if you are just going to be using a little bit.

I hate equal and find splenda just okay. I use way too many artificial sweeteners... (1/4c or more a day) so I usually order stevia powder in bulk.

invisibleman53

I don't use any artificial sweeteners because they are artificial. The only substitute of granulated sugar I have used is light agave nectar.

Francl27

Sugar, lol. Seriously, I don't like artificial sweeteners at all (or I should say '0 calorie sweeteners because I don't like stevia or monkfruit etc either).

mitch16

Sugar--just less of it (though I do drink Diet Coke on a rare occasion).

Carmen_TX

I like spenda

funjen1972

Splenda and Stevia are my choices. I still use some sugar.

I put them in coffee, Greek yogurt and oatmeal almost daily. That saves me about 100 calories a day.

SabAteNine

I can't stomach the taste of stevia. I use sugar, saccharin or sucralose. Also erythriol when baking, but sparingly (due to the cost).

crabbybrianna

The only thing I use sweetener in is sweet tea, and I use Splenda.

AnnPT77

Maple syrup when I bake muffins, blackstrap molasses (which has useful amounts of iron and potassium) in my oatmeal, otherwise I don't add much sugar to stuff (but when I do, I use actual sugar, honey or maple syrup).

GottaBurnEmAll

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Maple syrup when I bake muffins, blackstrap molasses (which has useful amounts of iron and potassium) in my oatmeal, otherwise I don't add much sugar to stuff (but when I do, I use actual sugar, honey or maple syrup).

Maple syrup makes the best cake frosting. When my daughter was little, she had a sensitivity to corn and I found a recipe for maple meringue frosting that you make by boiling maple syrup (preferably the dark kind) until it's 235 degrees and then drizzling it into 2 whipped egg whites and continuing to beat until it's all cooled down.

It was the perfect recipe for a corn sensitive kid, parents who didn't like overly sweet frostings (it's still plenty sweet), and it's fluffy, delicious and good on both chocolate and vanilla cakes.

nooshi713

I like real sugar and honey but am trying to eat less so use some Splenda and Truvia.

ExistingFish

I don't like Stevia in coffee, but DH drinks it every morning. I prefer Monk Fruit.

I drink aspartame in Coke Zero. Chick Fil A diet lemonade is made with Spenda.

So I drink a variety, but we only keep Monk Fruit, Splenda (various brands) and table sugar in the house. I prefer Monk Fruit to sugar actually, I only like a little sweetener in my coffee. Stevia, even small amounts, is to acutely sweet for me. Sugar is pretty sweet to me too. Monk fruit I put one packet in a 16 ounce coffee, any less coffee and one packet is too sweet. I should really just learn to like it without sweetener.

MoHousdon

Cahgetsfit wrote: »

sugar!

Agreed!

jessdaytonxo

Stevia and eythritol!

Keto_Vampire

Stevia...not just because of the whole "natural" BS; simply a taste preference - it's not ridiculously sweet & can have a somewhat bitter aftertaste. Eyrthritol is a close second (very mild sweetness, can upset the GIT)

amgreenwell

I like splenda

earlnabby

I use liquid sucralose when I don't want to add any calories or flavor. I use demerara sugar in my tea because I like the very subtle flavor it gives. I use regular sweeteners (sugar, sorghum, molasses, corn syrup, etc) in my baking because I prefer the results (for my serious Christmas baking and candy making I always buy cane sugar. It might be all in my head but I don't think beet sugar bakes up as nice, General purpose use, I get whatever is on sale)

The one thing I avoid is stevia. I can't stand the bitter taste and aftertaste.

cwolfman13

I can't think of anything I add a sweetener of any kind to...but I do enjoy a couple of diet beverages which have either aspartame or sucralose.

Actually, I do occasionally make my own BBQ sauce and I use regular brown sugar for that.