Comments on: Stevia-based Sweeteners: FDA Approved After 10+ Years. So, Why Now?

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:44:03 +0000

Uhhhh, Ethanol is in your alcoholic beverage at vastly greater levels than you could possibly get by putting one of the Reb A sweeteners in your coffee. But hey love the free advertising. JO.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:41:54 +0000

Hi Steve, We couldn't agree with you more! Thanks so much for pointing out the high quality of SweetLeaf. Personally, we have used Sweetleaf for years and love the quality. You might enjoy reading a post we did a while back > SweetLeaf Stevia Dietary Supplement, a safe natural sweetener.The point of this article is that SweatLeaf has had to market their products as a dietary supplement and not allowed to market the natural stevia products as natural sugar alternatives. Now here comes a large corporation that wants to do so, and they are immediately approved, but small smaller companies that produce higher quality options are still struggling with regulations.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:35:14 +0000

Your article is very insightful, although it fails to mention SweetLeaf Sweetener. This product IS a stevia sweetener that is GRAS approved, and it is not a chemically produced pure Reb A product like Rebiana, the base of both Truvia and PureVia. There is no such thing as Rebiana in nature, or in a stevia plant. Rebiana is created under laboratory conditions by chemically splitting the stevioside molecule with ethanol or metanol, to create a Reb A molecule. This leaves a residual of methanol or ethanol in your sweetener. Would you want to put car fuel in your coffee or tea?? I didn’t think so, but that is precisely what you are doing when you use Truvia and PureVia. SweetLeaf Sweetener is the ONLY 100% natural stevia sweetener that is made using ONLY purified water…no residual chemicals because chemicals are not used in the process. Sweetness as nature intended. SweetLeaf Sweetener.