WhatSugar

When it comes to stevia, you face many options for your cooking, baking or coffee- and tea-sweetening needs. Explore and learn about 150+ stevia sweeteners labeled as zero calories and 20+ which provide 25 to 75% fewer calories than table sugar. Visit https://www.whatsugar.com/stevia to learn more.

When it comes to stevia, you face many options for your cooking, baking or coffee- and tea-sweetening needs.

(1) you may choose stevia based on the form available: liquid, granulated (pouches, individual packets, sticks), cubes and tablets.

(2) you can make your selection based on the filler used: erythritol (the most common), sugars (glucose, fructose, raw sugar, honey, agave nectar), rare sugars (allulose, tagatose), polyols (erythritol, xylitol), soluble fibers (inulin, fructooligosaccharides, isomaltooligosaccharides), and non-sweet carbohydrates (maltodextrin).

(3) you have a variety of stevia leaf extracts used as ingredients: reb A, blends of reb A, D, and M, or stevioside. If you are looking for the most natural, unrefined, minimally-processed (but definitely not the best tasting) option, consider buying dried stevia leaves.

(4) stevia sweeteners may be sweeter than table sugar (2 to >100x) or as sweet as sugar in which case you measure the same amount stated in your recipes.

(5) stevia may be zero calorie (provide

Read on "the real sugar without the calories" | https://bit.ly/2MwZfz7 |

A natural sweetener with a tenth of sugar’s calories. Allulose, developed in Hoffman Estates, could be ‘breakthrough ingredient.’ People seeking to cut back on sugar may soon start to see more of a novel ingredient: allulose, which recently got the OK from the FDA to not be counted as sugar in nutritional labels.

I am often asked if there is a difference between cane and beet sugar. No, for most of us. But some argue they have different aroma, caramelization, and baking performance. Read my blog post titled ‘Cane vs Beet Sugar: A Difference?’ To learn what could be responsible for these complaints.