Is stevia ok on induction?

[Kyla]

I am just wondering if I can use stevia instead of splenda on induction or at all. I can't seem to find out if there are carbs in it or if it messes up being in ketosis. Anyone know anything about it?

[Georgiana]

You can use stevia during Induction and count it as part of your daily sweeteners (limited to 3 packets per day). The carb count will vary depending on the bulking agents in it.

Looking at some popular brands...

Truvia has 3 g of carbohydrate per serving.
Ingredients: erythritol, rebiana and natural flavors.

PureVia has 2 g of carbohydrates per serving.
Ingredients: erythritol, isomaltulose, stevia extract, cellulose powder, natural flavors

SweetLeaf has 0 g of carbohydrates per serving.
Ingredients: inulin, stevia leaf extract

The carbs in Truvia come from erythritol, which is a sugar alcohol. Therefore only part of those 3 g should be counted as net carbs, but the amount varies from person to person. Same thing for PureVia, where the carbs come from erythritol and isomaltulose.

[kaylasgram]

FYI ~ if you get a bitter taste cut back on how much you are using & that will go away, also I make Green Ice Tea for my Family buy the Gallon & was using 20 pks of Splendra & now using only 10 of Stevia as its a lot sweeter!!!

~Cindi~

[krispysky]

Is it still just 3 packets of the no-carb Stevia?

[Elizellen]

Yes, up to 3 servings of any food or drink containing sweetener

[kristenv]

Kal brand liquid Stevia has a really good flavor, and is available at thebetterhealthstore.com. I did not care for the other liquid brands.....
Kristen

[LauraMG]

Originally Posted by Georgiana

You can use stevia during Induction and count it as part of your daily sweeteners (limited to 3 packets per day). The carb count will vary depending on the bulking agents in it.

Looking at some popular brands...

Truvia has 3 g of carbohydrate per serving.
Ingredients: erythritol, rebiana and natural flavors.

PureVia has 2 g of carbohydrates per serving.
Ingredients: erythritol, isomaltulose, stevia extract, cellulose powder, natural flavors

SweetLeaf has 0 g of carbohydrates per serving.
Ingredients: inulin, stevia leaf extract

The carbs in Truvia come from erythritol, which is a sugar alcohol. Therefore only part of those 3 g should be counted as net carbs, but the amount varies from person to person. Same thing for PureVia, where the carbs come from erythritol and isomaltulose.

Hey there!

Before I started induction I was using erythritol and xylitol.

I'm confused as to why you state the only carbs in the brand-name stevia sweeteners you mentioned come from erythritol. Erythritol has a net 0 carbs.

In fact, isn't erythritol even better than xylitol as far as impact on blood sugar goes?

I'm not trying to argue, but it seems your information is either wrong or I'm totally missing something...

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by LauraMG

I'm confused as to why you state the only carbs in the brand-name stevia sweeteners you mentioned come from erythritol. Erythritol has a net 0 carbs.

That is because I am talking about total carbs (the ones on the label), not net carbs. The net carbs in erythritol are close to zero, but not a perfect zero. Based on the heat of combustion, and available and fermentable carbohydrate, the mean energy value of erythritol was found by Livesey (2003) to be approx. 0.2 kcal/g. This means about 0.05 g carbohydrate per gram of erythritol (does not necessarily mean all these 0.05 g will have be released into the blood). If one is consuming 3 packets of Truvia, for example, this is less than 0.5 g available net carbs. Likely the errors coming from measuring other foods are larger and you can safely consider this to be 0 net carbs. But it is not exactly zero. If, on the other hand, one is eating some sweets sweetened with erythritol and a serving size has 7 g of erythritol (so adding to about 20 g for the allowed three servings), then the net carbs could be about 1 g, and that's all that is needed above the CCLL for weight loss to stop.

In fact, isn't erythritol even better than xylitol as far as impact on blood sugar goes?

In the studies that have been done until now, the serum glucose and insulin levels in normal and diabetic subjects after ingestion of 20-65 g of erythritol were essentially unchanged. The graph below (from Livesey 2003) shows the glycemic curves for erythritol (dots), xylitol (short dashes), sorbitol (longer dashes) and mannitol (averagely-thick, solid line). The thick solid line is sucrose and the thin solid line is glucose.

[liv]

Thanks G. Nice post.

[LauraMG]

Originally Posted by Georgiana

If, on the other hand, one is eating some sweets sweetened with erythritol and a serving size has 7 g of erythritol (so adding to about 20 g for the allowed three servings), then the net carbs could be about 1 g, and that's all that is needed above the CCLL for weight loss to stop.

In the studies that have been done until now, the serum glucose and insulin levels in normal and diabetic subjects after ingestion of 20-65 g of erythritol were essentially unchanged. The graph below (from Livesey 2003) shows the glycemic curves for erythritol (dots), xylitol (short dashes), sorbitol (longer dashes) and mannitol (averagely-thick, solid line). The thick solid line is sucrose and the thin solid line is glucose.

First of all... AWESOME GRAPH AND POST!

Second, I must a little slow on the uptake. Are you saying that 1 g is all that is needed to knock the CCLL out of whack, or are you saying that the 20 g really count and this is why it messes with the CCLL?

Also, the graph seems to support what I thought about erythritol having the "best" effect on blood sugar than the other sweeteners. So, if the above it true (about the carbs) than something's not adding up.

I refuse to use Splenda, so I guess my question is the following:
During induction, can I use erythritol to sweeten my herbal tea and decaf coffee?