re: #293 prairiefire

I will not touch an artificial sweetener. They are all poison.

Have you encountered Stevia yet?

As a non-chemical plant derivative, it’s becoming more widely noticed as an alternative sweetener. Sweet Leaf (somehow, I don’t think they’re Sabbath fans….) and Truvia have their products fairly widely available, and there’s a new soda called Zevia that is Stevia-sweetened.

My own sweet tooth is pretty particular, having adapted to unrefined cane sugar long ago — I have a bit of a hard time with fully-processed white sugar as a result. And I can’t stand the taste of alternative sweeteners; however, if I was diabetic or otherwise concerned about my glycemic index, I’d consider developing a taste for it….