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Stevia - do you love it or hate it?

Yesterday I went to GNC because I'd heard a lot of people talk about how great the Quest bars are there. So I bought a few different ones and saw these Reese's Cup sort of things they make too so I bought a couple thinking they would be a nice healthy treat. OMG!!!!!! I had never had anything with Stevia in it before and even though I have never minded artificial sweeteners and have used just about every kind ever made, that stuff tasted like bug spray!! It took hours to get that horrid taste out of my mouth. I will definitely be reading labels a lot closer now and not buy anything that contains Stevia.

So, I wondered if others here have the same aversion to it or if it is just my taste buds that find it so revolting.

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I absolutely hate it.......tastes too much like licorice to me, and I don't like licorice. Lately, I have been using monkfruit sweetener which I get at Aldi's. It is a nice switch-up from chemical artificial sweeteners.

Took me a week to get used to......Now, I won't use anything else.

some things with stevia are just fine, others. .not so much. lol

i don't mind it, and i have a cookies and cream Quest bar daily for protein. it's my candy bar!

I use straight Stevia every day in my tea, I don't have any problems with it.

I like stevia in the truvia form. Less aftertaste. I love love love the crystal light with truvia in it.

I think it has a sort of 'burnt' smell to it which is a bit offputting, but once it's been mixed into food it's fine.

Unfortunately it's hard to find 100% Stevia -- it's being marketed with maltodextrine and other additives and labeling makes it difficult to sleuth it out. I use the liquid version from Trader Joe's and just a drop or two, and the Greek yogurt I use has Stevia in it as well as real sugar. I can't tolerate artificial sweeteners.

I use Stevia In The Raw and love it. I can't stand the artificial after taste of most other sweeteners.

I like stevia and splenda. They are easy to use and taste good to me.

I use truvia and Monk Fruit in the Raw. I couldn't tolerate the pure natural stevia I found. That bitter after-taste is too funky for me.

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I don't mind the taste of stevia in the raw. It has less additives in it than truvia. I was using pure stevia herb, however I can't have either as I discovered I am allergic to it. It's hard finding foods that don't have it these days.

I don't like it. I also don't particularly like the quest bars and never really have. I also dislike the monk fruit, actually worse than stevia to me. It seems like the only artificial sweetener I like at all is splenda.

Has anyone ever tried "Fat to Skinny" liquid sweetner? Its my very favorite

I like it and use it in limited quantities.

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