Replacing sugar in coffee with sweetener?
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ThreeKeys_
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Hi folks.
So, I drink a lot of coffee. I used to have three sugars but now am down to one and I don't think I can take it any lower than that!
What do you think, should I replace the sugar with a sweetener?
So, I drink a lot of coffee. I used to have three sugars but now am down to one and I don't think I can take it any lower than that!
What do you think, should I replace the sugar with a sweetener?
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Some people including myself are of the opinion most sweeteners are worse than sugar, I also used to have 3 sugars in tea and coffee. I went cold turkey on my sugar, I didn't enjoy a brew for a couple of weeks but after that my taste reset and now I can't stand sugar in my drinks, makes me gag.0
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you could just not drink the stuff. That would cover it.0
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I take a teaspoon or two of Stevia. You can get it in liquid or powder form. It's all natural but zero calories. I tried to do the black coffee thing and it just never happened for me. blech.0
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I went from 2 to 0. It's easy, now I don't even miss the sugar...in fact that was the start of me not having sugar in anything.0
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Try and go without sugar or sweeteners. I used to have 2 large sugars in a coffee then in Jan 2007 I decided to stop sugar completely. It took a but of getting used to, but now if i have sugar in coffee I find tastes disgusting. Coffee tastes so much better unsweetened.0
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stevia is sweeter than sucrose so I find I need less. I use the half and half stevia/sucrose just because it's the easiest and cheapest kind for me to get hold of.0
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I have started drinking coffee with Stevia sweetener, it is natural and doesn't contain aspartame .0
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I would rather the 15cals of a tsp of sugar than any artificial sweeteners. Stevia, maybe, but I'm not keen on the taste. But I have stopped sweetening my coffee. I still use a bit of milk, and I heat it up before adding the coffee - imo, heating it first brings out a bit of the natural sweetness.0
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I echo what others say about stevia. I was like you loving very sweet hit drinks. i used stevia as a stop gap to try and wean myself of sweetness and I've now cut it out completely. I miss sugar bt I'm still in early stages so hopefully this will pass soon.0
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I reduced my per cup sweetener to less than one sweetener packet (1/3 - 1/2) just to take the edge off the coffee bitterness. I sometimes make a pot of coffee and just put one packet in for the entire pot.
If your coffee is very bitter, you could use less coffee therefore it would require less sweetener...0 -
Against the trend here I do have sweetener. It's the most tested food substance out there and I cannot find any evidence that it does any harm unless you're a rat that eats 3 tons of the stuff a day.
I am not a rat but am happy to offer myself to science if my 6tsp a day or so causes me to grow another head.0 -
What do you think, should I replace the sugar with a sweetener?
If you like your coffee sweet, then yes.
Unless of course you're a rat.0 -
Like a couple other people posted sweetener is fine.0
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I cut down half a pack at a time, weeks and months between. I've gone without sugar since last June and don't miss it at all. I do add some chocolate powder to Starbucks lattes to cut some of the bitterness, but I used to do that when I was adding sugar too. Just keep dropping it little by little. It's a lot of sugar and worth stopping.0
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Against the trend here I do have sweetener. It's the most tested food substance out there and I cannot find any evidence that it does any harm unless you're a rat that eats 3 tons of the stuff a day.
I am not a rat but am happy to offer myself to science if my 6tsp a day or so causes me to grow another head.
^This
There is so much testing being done on artificial sweeteners. The only 'evidence' against it I've found is anecdotal. I drink diet coke a lot, I use Stevia, I use Aspartame, and I'll gladly use whatever else non-sugar sweeteners they invent. The only effect I've noticed is a loss in weight from not drinking so many calories.
That being said, I did stop using sugar or alternatives altogether in my tea, which did take some getting used to, but wouldn't drink it differently now. So just see what works for you. Don't feel bad because the artificial sweetener Mafia is on your case.0 -
I didn't think I'd do it, however, I do add a little bit of sweetener in some of my coffees and it's not that bad...it takes the edge of really strong coffee.0
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I love vanilla stevia (liquid), I use it in all my tea and coffee. zero calories and 100% natural0
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1 tsp of sugar is 16 calories, and sweeteners taste like chemicals to me, so no contest.0
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I never used to drink coffee, but am finding that it helps control my appetite and concentration levels now so I may have a cup a day, sometimes I don't though. I like my coffee sweet and I add 1 tbs of sugar plus 3 tbs of creamer to my cup, which comes to 150 calories. I don't think it's that big a deal since I don't drink a ton of coffee. I like the idea of drinking it straight, but it's just WAY too bitter, I don't know how people do it.
Some people are genetically more sensitive to bitter tastes than others though, (if you've ever tried those paper test strips, you'll know what I mean.) I can't stand bitter tastes, so I really don't think I'd acclimate to the flavor. I could maybe see tolerating it, but never liking it. Some people also say they lose a taste for sugar. I can't see that happening either. Even though I drink mostly water and have for a while, if I drank a soda I'd still enjoy the taste.0 -
i use a little sugar rather than the chemical substitute. Could be saving calories but better to keep it as near natural as possible.0
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