Lucuma - Artificial Sweetener May Be the Smartest Sugar Swap Yet (AOL)

[mccoy]

@desertshores

To avoid these additives, I buy pure stevia powder

That’s me now! I find stevia very good in some drinks, less so in others like coffee, but as another poster was writing, to tell the truth, coffee should be drunk with no sweetener whatsoever.

[mccoy]

@AustraliaLongevity

I’m likely going to use stevia most of the time but something with a little carbohydrates like lucuma would be nice every now and then.

Tonight I tried to mix a little low-fat milk into the lucuma powder until I had a moderately thick slurry. It was pretty good, but after I added the tiniest bit of pure cacao powder, then it turned into excellence.

[AustraliaLongevity]

If nothing else I imagine it will go well in my nightly yogurt.

@desertshores

Stevia is 200-300 times sweeter than sugar, so most stevia-based sweeteners include fillers like maltodextrin, erythritol, and others to make them easier to use. To avoid these additives, I buy pure stevia powder and transfer it to a salt shaker

You get more stevia per $ by getting the pure extract vs those watered down erythritol/stevia mixes anyway, but they sell big bags of the erythritol mixed garbage for cheap labelled as “stevia” so people don’t realize what they’re buying.