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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all stevia products are alike in quality and taste, and I venture to say if you have had reactions to a stevia product, it's probably not the stevia itself, but an additive in the product.  Stevia has been used for 1500 years in South America and in Japan since the 70s now with a 40% market share without documented adverse effects.

If you don't like the taste of one, try another, you might like it.  Generally, the less quality a stevia product has, the worse it tastes.  (Truvia is actually 99.1% erythritol)

I use SweetLeaf brand, which I undertand is the only one that retains all three 0 calorie, 0 carb, and 0 GI properties, and wherein only pure water ever touch the leaves druring extraction, as opposed to chemicals, like ethanol and methanol in other brands.

To answer you question more directly, NO.  Not all stevia is gross, in fact, it may be quite good.

To a commenter who asked why stay a way from sugar, but not stevia:  stevia is not sugar.  It is an extract of sweet glycosides from the leaves of the stevia plant.  The only resemblance to sugar is that both are sweet. The similarity ends there.

(employed by Wisdom Natural Brands, the makers of SweetLeaf Stevia)[/quote]

OP here, thanks for the info PP (and thanks for being open about your place of employment. Curious if you're truly from the DC area or if you google stevia looking for ways make sure the "facts" are straight around the internet?)

For the others--splenda is also not supposed to be good for candida, but I'm generally not a fan of artificial sweeteners (which is why I'm having so much trouble with this stevia thing).

For the person who called my naturopath a quack...I did originally see a conventional doctor and the medicine he prescribed has a high chance of damaging my liver.  With family history of liver issues (not alcohol related), I thought cutting sugar out of my diet was a better first step, don't you think?

I really am not planning to use a ton of it, not even a whole packet every day, so praying for no anal leakage. 
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