Artificial sweetner

[Merlin5]

I use artificial sweetner these days instead of sugar, for putting in my porridge, weetabix and shredded wheat. I bought a tesco bottle of Stevia (from the Stevia plant) but it takes a ton of it to make the cereal sweet enough, bit crap really. Yet the actual powder is very sweet when you taste it neat. By contrast, my mum gave me a bottle of Canderel she doesn't use, the stuff in the red bottle. That only takes a spoonful and the cereal is plenty sweet enough. I thought stevia is meant to be the last word in artificial sweetener? I notice Canderel also do their own version of Stevia now. Maybe Canderel is just better full stop.

 

[Glaucus]

A lot of sweeteners are diluted as they can be hundreds of times sweeter.
So maybe the Tesco one dilutes it more than others.

Canderel is essentially aspartame
There's also splenda. Which is based on sugar and called sucralose, this seems to generally be considered best tasting if you want it like sugar.
Stevia, is popular at the moment ad it's a plant extract and so deemed natural'. Many find it has an after taste, which is why there's blends of old sweeteners with Stevie

There's plenty of others, but they're he main three, I would say.

 

[Merlin5]

A lot of sweeteners are diluted as they can be hundreds of times sweeter.
So maybe the Tesco one dilutes it more than others.

From my experience, I would say you're right. I'm betting that if I were to taste the Canderel Stevia, it would be much sweeter. Having said that, I can't see the point of them making it when their regular sweetner is good enough.

 

[tom_e]

The whole thing behind Stevia is that it's not an artificial sweetener it's extracted from a plant so they can claim it's natural, rather than anything to do with it's sweetness.

 

[pooley]

i use organic blue agave from costco, best sweetner i have tried thus far..

 

[Scrumpy_Jack]

Ive always used honey, I tried some Sweet Freedom recently, that was ok too, just less sweet.