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SweetLeaf All Natural Low Calories Stevia Plus, 100 Packets, 3.5 Ounce Boxes (Pack of 2) | 
 enlarge | Brand: SweetLeaf
Category: Grocery
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 12658
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.1 x 4.5
UPC: 716123125857
EAN: 0716123125857
ASIN: B001E5E3OE
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| Features:
| • | Pack of two boxes, each box containing 100 packets of naturally sweet fiber supplement powder (200 total packets) | | • | Contains 100% natural inulin fiber (FOS) and stevia (leaf) extract, and a minimum of 90% steviosides, including 40% rebaudioside A; certified Kosher | | • | 100% fat, calorie, and carbohydrate free; contains no artificial sweeteners; 2 teaspoons equals the fiber of 1 bowl of cereal | | • | Helps nourish friendly inteststinal bacteria and may improve gastrointestinal function and support for healthy liver function | | • | Made from stevia leaves grown in Paraguay |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 All natural and so sweet! December 12, 2008
Marjie Snyder (Jackson WI)
This is a very healthy product to have on hand. I use it for tea, coffee, deserts. I try to avoid sugar so this is great. I also bought the actual stevia plant to see it for myself. It is really a herb. Amazing how sweet the leaf is.
SweetLeaf Stevia Plus, packets July 28, 2008
A. Auvray
Once you get used to the taste of stevia than I think it would be hard to go back to any other natural sweetener. I keep the packets in my purse all the time so when we go to a resteraunt I don't have to use any other sweetener.
what a blessing! June 18, 2008
Hannah
I can't quite remember when I became such a stevia addict, but suffice it to say, I go through box after box of this stuff! The main thing I do with it is add it to tea. Three packets to a bottle of iced tea, or a little sprinkle into my glass. It tastes wonderful. I agree with other commenters that it doesn't dissolve as easily as I might like (of course, try dissolving sugar into a gallon of ice cold water, it puts things in perspective!)... However, I have noticed that, even when there are undissolved portions in the bottom of my bottle of iced tea, they do go away on their own in a minute or so. So its dissolving properties don't seem to be a problem for me at all.
One thing to keep in mind is that sweet leaf does not taste good on its own! It isn't sugar, so you will have to adjust to compensate for the lack of bulk when baking with it, and you want to start with a tiny amount in beverages, or you will get a bitter taste. A sprinkle, not a spoonful! My brother tried it straight and hated it.... but of course straight cocoa beans wouldn't taste too great either, and I inhale chocolate all the same!
Anyway, the real issue I want to bring up is Sweetleaf's recent approval from the FDA as having GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status for the use as a food additive. Previously, (and probably due to lobbying from an unnamed sugar manufacturer) we could only buy sweetleaf as a supplement, despite the stevia manufacturers offering hundreds of studies that proved its safety in the eighties... In the next couple months, we will finally see it in the sugar aisle! Not that sweet leaf will be keeping good company there, next to aspartamene and its cohorts, but it does make me really proud of Sweetleaf for taking on the sugar and artifical sweetener giants and fighting for the legal status that is rightfully theirs... as a perfectly safe, a wonderfully tasty way to sweeten food. It's truly criminal that artificial sweeteners are given the go ahead or that sugar is consumed at such unhealthy proportions in this country, with diabetes, tooth decay, obesity, and all the other problems that sugar causes... when Stevia doesn't have any of the bad effects that are associated with these other sweeteners!
Now that stevia has new status from the FDA, expect a stevia-derived sweetener from Pepsi in the next couple months. I have no doubt, when stevia hits the market full swing, all the giants in the beverage industry will start telling us how dangerous artificial sweeteners and high fructose corn syrup are... but sweetleaf has maintained from the start that stevia was a much better alternative, and they stood up to the giants and won! So my loyalties are to sweetleaf, no matter what Pepsi and Cargill have cooked up (seriously, google it!). Your health is worth giving up high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners for, so why not try this little guy out!
Very convenient June 9, 2008
S. Vera (Flagstaff, AZ)
Love the packages. Sometimes too much powder would come out of the jar and make my tea too sweet. Like the portioned version better. Stirs easily and offers just the right amount of sweetness. Fiber is a bonus.
Very good product April 29, 2008
Brian (NJ/NY)
I used a whole box of this stuff, while it takes about 2 packs for a very large cup of coffee, it is well worth it to get a break for a while from eating sugar.
Sometimes, in the boiling hot coffee, this sugar would clump a little. So I recommend this for traveling, or at work. For normal everyday use I recommend the droppers they sell. About 2 half droppers will make a large coffee VERY sweet. I think the droppers are more expensive, but they do last a very long time and are proably more pure.
This is the only painless way I know to get away from sugar. Other sweeteners contain chemicals, and desipite what the marking people say, sweeteners like splenda are not natural.
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