I have looked high and low on the internet for some recipes for Ketoade that don’t contain artificial sweeteners and I am coming up short. I have continued to have dehydration issues since last June when I cut fruit from my diet. I have tried taking electrolyte tablets, magnesium/calcium supplements, drinking bone broth etc. I feel like my diet is pretty heavy in salt yet I still have some problems. Either I drink too much water and end up with cramps because of an electrolyte imbalance or I am dehydrated. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. So I think it’s time to up my game a bit to combat this and start making ketoade. All the recipes I am finding involve artificial sweetener. I don’t want artificial sweetener. Does anyone have a palatable recipe they can share that doesn’t involve artificial sweetener?
Ketoade without fake flavors or artificial sweetener?
Could you maybe make the recipes you found without the sweeteners in them? Also, what do you consider an “artificial sweetener?” Is stevia an artificial sweetener to you? It’s a gray area for some.
Thanks, but I don’t want stevia, I don’t want the taste of sweet if that makes any sense.
Yes, stevia is a sweetener to me. I am finding that or erythritol in everything. I am just not keen on putting something that ‘new’ into my body.
Then I would just use a coconut water-based Ketoade recipe and not add any sweetness to it. I personally find coconut water to be palatable. Like this one, without the honey.
Isn’t erythritol a natural product made from bank or something? I’ve just bought 2kg but not tried it yet.
I use a modified version of ketoaide from this forum.
I use 1 teaspoon of lite salt in 36oz of water. I’ve been skipping the magnesium citrate. It does have some sweetener, but if used in a small amount (2tbsp) it might not be noticable. I’ve found the longer you let the lite salt dissolve the less odd taste there is.
Out of curiosity, why is lite salt preferable to the regular variety? Is it a taste thing or an electrolyte thing? Could I drink something like that and take magnesium pills?
Lite salt had both potassium and sodium, but less lidium than regular table salt. I know the flavored magnesium citrate had some sweetener, but the unflavored may not. It’s work checking the lables. I got my magnesium citrate from Wal-Mart, for about $1 for a 10oz bottle.
Maybe, I don’t know. But as an aside,‘sugar’ is a natural product too. The reason we have such a problem with it today is that we have wrecked our bodies ability to manage it with how much we have eaten.
The reason I am suspect of the sweeteners is because my half sister was doing low carb but was eating a lot of stuff with erythritol and could not take off any weight. When she finally cut it out, she started dropping. It may be that something about ‘sweet’ triggers the body to release insulin whether it is affecting blood sugar levels or not.
It’s always worth doing some experimenting to find what works for you. If you can use flavored magnesium citrate, great. If it had to be unflavored that’s great, too. If you have to skip it, great as well! 
Hope this helps.
I made a ketoaide with litesalt and a powdered magnesium. The magnesium did not dissolve well (may have been the brand) but it was sugar/sweetner free. I also try to avoid anything sweet as it triggers me into a deep dark hole. I just did some math from Brenda’s recipe for the magnesium part.
Water
Lemon or lime juice (fresh squeezed)
1/2 Tsp Morton Lite Salt
That covers your sodium and potassium. Take a magnesium supplement in pill or capsule form separately.
What I do is squeeze 1/2 lemon or lime (sometimes a full one, sometimes half of each) into a 2L pitcher, add water, and refrigerate. It’s my go-to for a flavored water. If I want some additional electrolytes, I add the 1/2 Tsp of the Lite Salt (potassium + sodium) into a glass of the water and stir it up.
Thanks everyone! Looks like I am heading to the store today to purchase some Morton’s Lite Salt!
Yes, I checked the nutrition label of even the unsweetened one at Costco today and a serving has 11 carbs!
As a follow up, I got the lite salt mixed it with water and lemon juice. It’s not TOO bad. I think I will be able to manage it with my magnesium supplements. I will check back in a week or so and let people know if fixed my dehydration/cramping problems. I hope the lemon juice doesn’t wreak havoc with my tooth enamel though. I have good teeth, but my husband has a lot of issues with his and his dentist told him no citric acid because it weakens teeth. So we will see.
Looks like those are Australian products (just did a search) If there is no added artificial sweetener in that magnesium powder I’d be all over it. I wonder if we have such a thing here in the USA. As an aside, after drinking my homemade ketoade yesterday, I am up a pound BUT I don’t have dry mouth this morning which means I am doing better dehydration- wise. I wasn’t bummed to see the slight climb on the scale because at this point, it’s more important to be properly hydrated than show a lower number. And I am still down a pound for my week over week so that’s not bad.
I’ve noticed on this forum that people tend to worry about the insulin response to various sweeteners and think a sweetener is fine as long as it’s not influencing insulin or ketones.
However, in reading research on the effect of artificial sweeteners on weight gain it seems that the effects may be much more complicated than that. One that I’ve read is that they can affect the rate of glucose uptake at the cellular level. And that’s just one effect that has been discovered.
The way I feel is that there is no reason to think that these substances are inert in our bodies and they are clearly not whole foods that we have any real history with. If sugars and grains, which we have hundreds and thousands of years of history consuming, are turning out to be wreaking such havoc in our bodies, how much less sense does it make to eat these sweeteners whose biological properties we haven’t finished sussing out.