Sweeteners - your experience?

(Bobbie Jo Stinger) #26

Almost all artifical sweeteners I have tried give me headaches. The only thing that doesn’t is Splenda. I tend to save it for very occasional treats.

(Cathie Condon) #27

Erythritol, Xylitol and I just received some Monk fruit that taste just like sugar - uh oh, but no negative reactions or cravings

(Doug Stone) #28

If you’re concerned about gut health as I am Splenda/sucrolose kills 50% of good gut bacteria. So it majorly interferes with any probiotics you may be taking. I use liquid stevia.

(criticalcarecat) #29

I use swerve

(Tracy Mason) #30

Swerve

(jac060) #31

I normally just use Stevia and I don’t seem to have any inflammatory problems, but this past week have been having xylitol and I am in so much pain can hardly walk.
Back to basics…

Xylitol and inflammation?
(Connor L) #32

I will eat liquid Stevia and Splenda/Sucralose. No Powder unless I’m out and I’m just craving iced tea.

I eat xylitol gum!

(Amanda Jones) #33

I feel your pain. I’m currently dealing with an erythritol induced migraine. :persevere:

(Rebecca) #34

I don’t use sweeteners much. I have tried Swerve and have just started to use an Erythritol/Monk Fruit blend which I quiet like.

(Lauren ) #35

I have monkfruit sugar which never affected me. For the holidays I tried erithritol and Lily’s chocolate and gained 4.5 pounds of inflammation. I don’t know which one did it but I’d like to find out. Any ideas how? Or any suggestions?

#36

Stevia/Erythritol blend

(Mark) #37

I use sweet leaf stevia very rarely, never had big sweet tooth before just lots of bread tortillas potato lots of carbage this is my first post and just want to thank Richard and Carl and all the admins for setting up this awesome forum love the show it has been a great resource in restoring my health ,keto on dudes

(Lauren) #38

Hmmm so my hot chocolate drink is erythritol/stevia blend & it hasn’t given me a headache… must be the Swerve…

(bambiying2) #39

I use erythritol, stevia and monk fruit. I really need a glucose monitor to test, but just by going how I feel and weight loss the next day, I swear that the erythritol messes with me. I know all research says that it shouldn’t…but it seems to make me stall and possibly cause cravings. I made some chocolate chip cookies with Sugar Free Hershey chips with malitol, and whoa, they were fart central. No more malitol for us here!

(Griffin Mekelburg) #40

Erythritol always for me!

(David Russell) #41

Stevia

(Justin Blow) #42

Welcome and a great choice in a username.

(Lauren ) #43

Erithritol makes me gain inflammation. I had some swerve for the first time on Christmas Eve and I gained 4.5 pounds. Tomorrow will be a week and it hasn’t budged. I’ve also been tired and out of it. If anyone else has ever felt like this please let me know. I need some suggestions!

(Kathy Swanson) #44

Splenda liquid and erythritol

(Definitely *NOT* oleophobic) #45

I’ve found that, for me, almost all of the “alcohols” (Anything that ends in “TOL”, i.e. xylitol, maltitol, etc.) trigger what I figure is an insulin reaction. Around 30 minutes after ingestion, I get very sleepy, often accompanied by a headache.

However pure Stevia for me does not, neither does aspartame and splenda, not that I rush to use them, but they don’t cause the big issues that the alcohols do for me. Most of the Stevia compounds I’ve found include erythritol and cause issues for me, so I have to read labels carefully.

I think that @Carl mentioned that he had to stop using a Xylitol based sweetener in his chocolate mousse recipe. Recently found a zero carb, zero calorie chocolate syrup that seems to work well for me.