Recipe For Diy sweetner?

(tulsanurse1) #1

I am trying to find out to make my own “Swerve”. Anyone have any experience with it? The stuff is expensive.

(Brian) #2

I don’t know about Swerve. But I do know that you can grow your own stevia. I had some plants a few years ago. It was a green leafy plant that looked a lot like some kind of tea and it was the leaves that we used to pick and chew on along with a mint leaf for a sort of refreshing little something when we were working out in the garden. I have no idea how it gets processed into either a liquid or a powder, never got that far. But the leaves are very sweet.

(tulsanurse1) #3

I too grew stevia and it was super sweet. My problem is the bitterness.

(Candy Lind) #4

THIS BLOG has a “DIY” recipe for an equivalent to Trim Healthy Mama’s “Gentle Sweet.” Swerve doesn’t have xylitol, but maybe you can get close by using the recipe with just e-tol & stevia. It’s my understanding that people like it so much because the 2 sweeteners cancel out each other’s negatives (cooling effect for e-tol and bitterness for stevia). Not sure why THM thinks xylitol makes it “gentle!”

BTW, it looks like ALL of THM’s sweeteners are marked down ATM - you might decide their “super sweet” is worth buying up a few bags (although I wonder if shipping would be prohibitive - I don’t know if they warehouse in the US).

(Allie) #5

Isn’t it just a blend of erythritol and stevia? I just mix regular erythritol with stevia drops for baking etc. It works.

(Sophie) #6

Every time I see Xylitol mentioned, I cringe, because I have a puppy and I have a hubby that thinks she should have a bite of everything he eats too! Just a PSA: Xylitol is lethal to pets!

(Jody) #7

The secret to Swerve’s zero-calorie sweetness is a combination of erythritol and oligosaccharides.

I would just buy Erythritol in bulk from Amazon. If you are looking for the powdered version, get a cheap coffee/herb grinder and make your own.

(John B) #8

Swerve can be pricey, which is why we always buy from Amazon, 3 bags at a time, little more cost effective. I also use my bullet blender to convert granular swerve to powdered.

#9

I make my own as I live in the UK and Swerve is difficult to find:

1 cup confectioners erythritol
2 tablespoons powdered inulin
1.5 teaspoon powdered stevia

Tastes the same.