Sweeteners - your experience?

(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.

(Peter Bursky) #46

i was using mostly Stevia, but based on and recently tried Xylitol, just to see if there’s any difference in taste.
There isn’t much as far as i can tell. Also the label says 100g carbs per 100g, but only 50% usable. Not sure if that’s ok, or should i just stick with stevia?

#47

The best way to know is test blood glucose after consuming a particular artificial sweetener and see if you get a response.

Xylitol is not a zero calorie sweetener for everyone and can provide up to 50% of the carbs in any serving, so I’d suggest caution and advise testing.

I prefer stevia that’s occasionally combined with erythritol since they seem to complement each other.

(eat more) #48

has anyone tried/know anything about Just Like Sugar?
(chicory root, calcium, vitamin c)

apparently this princess doesn’t like the taste of anything …except maybe splenda…but maybe not even that at this point

on top of the taste, stevia and erythitol make my teeth/mouth feel weird :flushed:

(Stickin' with mammoth) #49

My coffee wears stevia and I don’t eat anything else “sweet.”

Cheese has taken on a dessert-like quality for me now so I treat it as such. The fact that brie comes in cake slices should have been my first clue.

(eat more) #50

LOL