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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't stevia a natural plant?[/quote]
So is sugar. “Natural” doesn’t mean totally non-problematic. (And I’m drinking a Mexican coke right now, so I don’t hate sugar, but I’m only going to drink half and this will be the only added sugar I have today). [/quote]

Ok…but the topic is your opinion on artificial sweetener, in which a couple people brought up stevia.  [/quote]
Sorry, should have circled that square. Stevia is pretty processed, so though it comes from a leaf, so does sugar, so does HFCS. HFCS is processed to the point that it’s not natural despite coming from a plant and it could be argued that stevia is in the same league. Plus, for those of us not hailing from South America, it’s definitely a novel compound.

I avoid fake sugars as much as possible. Aspartame used to give me horrific headaches and they all - stevia, aspartame, Splenda, monkfruit - have a weird slippery-greasy-astringent feeling on the tongue. [/quote]

Funny I always noticed aspartame gave me headaches but I thought I was a crank :)[/quote]

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