@LordVapor wrote:
I bought a jar of Truvia which is a Stevia Leaf Extract. The ingredients are Erythritol, Stevia Leaf Extract, and Natural Flavors. I know @Mofogger has been using Pyure with success at making his fruit flavors better for him to vape.
But reading up on Stevia, I don't think it's a good sweetener to ingest as far as in food. It seems the ingredient Erythritol is a processed corn sugar extraction that uses all kinds of bad stuff to extract the natural sugars. It seems the whole FDA approval was based on pressure from Coca Cola and Pepsi, and most of the Stevia is from China. Most people think it comes from Peru. But the commercially available stuff we buy here from Truvia, and Pyure and other companies comes from China (along with everything else!).
So my thoughts? I plan to use it. I will probably make a liquid from the powder just like I do my Malic acid powder. Dissolve 1 gram in 10ml of PG, and see how this works as a sweetener. I doubt I will use it much anyway. But I have made some fruity recipes that I had wished were a little sweeter, even though I added some Marshmallow to the recipe. I don't particularly care for Sucralose in my liquids. The reason I thought of this was a discussion with Mofogger, plus I have tried Capella's Concord Grape with Stevia and it is pretty darned good.
So what do my peers think? I would love to hear any thoughts on this stuff.
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