Whole Earth Natural Sweet - feel weird after consuming

theoriginalkp · February 2018

I'm usually a purist, but trying to expand my options...so yesterday, I tried some Whole Earth Nature Sweet.

Omg, I can't be sure there's a link, but I couldn't sleep, my legs felt cold, and today my brain is mush.

If I use stevia powder, it's usually on solid foods (quinoa, oats, etc.) and I seem to do okay. In a liquid, however it does something similar to above.

Has anyone else experienced this? Are there any low-cal sweeteners that are less...questionable?

Thanks!

Cherimoose · February 2018

I use sucralose. God kills a kitten every time i do, but i'm fine with that.

MonaRaeHill · February 2018

I don't know what that is, (is it aspartame or something else created in a lab?), so research would be my first step. Drill down and find out what it is, exactly.
Most alternatives are made in a lab, and I'm convinced that our bodies (i.e. our dna/rna), don't actually recognize them.
I have been easing into using monk fruit sugar as an alternative, but I kinda wonder if it's worth it, because I have to use so much more, to get the same amount of sweetness.......plus, it's expensive........sigh.
Coconut nectar is another alternative I've been using, for just years and years, now. It's low glycemic and caramel like in it's flavor, but it's super sticky and gums up the kitchen, despite the tray I keep it on. Can't beat it as a substitute, tho, as it's plenty sweet.
Brown Rice syrup, too, although not as much in recent years, as I heard/read that there was a lead contamination problem.....
Anyway, to get to the point, every one of the 'lab rat' alternatives, made me feel weird enough so that I avoided them altogether.......even Stevia is kinda gross to me, I have yet to find a brand that doesn't leave a strong after-taste, and most of these are made in a lab, too, so I am okay with that.

macgurlnet · February 2018

I cannot stand Stevia liquid. There's a couple varieties of Stevia that I end up seeing - sometimes it's Stevia, sometimes it's Stevia Leaf Extract. I often end up with a gross aftertaste, so I just avoid most anything with Stevia.

Swerve is a really good no calorie sweetener in my opinion. Like @Cherimoose I also use Sucralose. Swerve leaves a bit of a cool feeling in my mouth - not overly bad, just different. Sucralose I don't have issues with.

~Lyssa

nowine4me · February 2018

I’ve tried every brand of Stevia in liquid and powder form -Every one. I just can’t do it. It burns on my tongue and makes me feel weird. I love Splenda (especially drops) so I just roll with it, and all it’s chemical goodness.

ZoneFive · February 2018

Stevia smells deliciously like vanilla when my husband puts it in his coffee -- but every version of it or erythritol tastes ineradicably of licorice, and I hate it. Sucralose is my go-to. I've had allulose (in Quest Hero bars) and it tastes fine to me -- no bad digestive effects, either.

Aaron_K123 · February 2018

Splenda is sucralose, not aspartame. Sucralose is just a chlorinated sucrose, I think it has 3 chloro- subs for the hydroxyls, two on the fructose subunit and one on the glucose. Store bought Stevia is a processed natural product deglycosylating a steviol natural extract. From memory, on my phone so hard to look up the details right now.

I wouldn't put too much causation on a correlative link from a single experience. If it happens literally everytime then sure, choose something else I guess but there is no reason I can think of that stevia would make your feet cold.

Anvasilak · February 2018

I purchased certified organic stevia extract from Swansons Vitamins. It is pretty good. No after taste.
Natural sweetener
Calorie free
Saccharin free
Aspartame free
Non bitter aftertaste

theoriginalkp · February 2018

Thanks all. IDK what I was thinking when I bought that stuff. I tend to keep it very real with food.

I'd like to try coconut nectar...interesting.

Fyi, ingredients for it are Erythritol, Fructose, Chicory Root Fiber, Stevia Leaf Extract, Monk Fruit Extract. I think Erythritol is suspicious, for me.

Aaron_K123 · February 2018

Erythritol is a sugar alcohol sourced typically from fermenting corn sugars and purifying the biproduct.

ahoy_m8 · February 2018

I've tried them all and have all of them in the house. I like sucralose best, too. The maltodextrin mixed with it to make it granular 1:1 with sugar tastes bad to me, so I stick with liquid formulations. There's a vanilla flavored syrup in the coffee aisle of the grocery store (similar to the DaVinci and Toranni products) and more concentrated drops I buy on Amazon.

Also, instead of using one sweetener, using less of 2 sweeteners will halve the aftertaste of each. It takes experimentation. Good luck!

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