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Truvia Truths

January 23rd, 2009

Truvia: The New Stevia Sweetener.......



it seems like the stevia content is more of a marketing angle than the key to Truvia’s taste and safety. Here’s what greets a visitor to the About Truvia webpage:

Water. Sunshine. Nutrients from the earth. That’s what goes into the stevia plant. Then nature works her magic and creates a wonderfully sweet taste.

Next, we steep the leaves, much like making tea, that begins the process of capturing rebiana, the best tasting part of the stevia plant. Ultimately, this little leaf gives back a recipe for sweetness that’s both delicious and zero-calorie guilt free.

Try a spoonful of this sparkly-goodness in your coffee. Truvia™ natural sweetener is a sweet little something that satisfies your cravings without adding calories.

That sounds great. But when you read the label (which you should always do) you notice that the first, and therefore most abundant ingredient in Trvuia isn’t stevia, it’s erythritol, which is itself a sweetener. Which is to say that expensive Truvia, consists mostly of erythritol; good old inexpensive, natural and safe erythritol.

....consists mostly of erythritol, which is cheaper, in many ways better and which you can order and start using today.


Erythritol is a ‘sugar alcohol’, that, like its close relative xylitol is totally natural, safe and non-toxic. Both erythritol and xylitol are found in fruits and vegetables.  Both erythritol and xylitol have a white crystalline structure like table sugar (a little coarser), a neutral-sweet taste like sugar,  and can be used spoon-for-spoon just like sugar in almost any kind of recipe. They’re the perfect alternatives to sugar, so much so that it’s surprising they aren’t 1000 times more popular. But as natural substances, they cannot easily be patented, so there isn’t enough profit potential to justify a Truvia or Splenda-scale high profile product launch and publicity campaign. So don’t hold your breath waiting for either erythritol or xylitol to come to you, you can go out to and start using them today, and you probably should.

There’s no ‘catch’ to using sugar alcohols like erythritol or xylitol instead of sugar, none at all. Because of their chemical structure, sugar alcohols like erythritol and xylitol produce an intense sweet taste like sugar. But, they metabolize into calories much much more slowly than regular sugars, so they don’t produce undesirable fluctuations in blood sugar or insulin levels, making them THE perfect sugar substitute.  Incidentally, xylitol has also been shown to inhibit tooth decay, one more huge advantage over table sugar.

AllStarHealth has been selling 1lb and up bags of erythritol and xylitol from NOW Foods to nutritionally savvy customers for years.  Their popularity can only increase but you don’t have to wait to start using them.  Eliminating added sugars to your foods and drinks, is the first and foremost step many people need to take to start losing excess weight and keep it off.  Why use expensive artificial fad sweeteners when there are better natural alternatives right now?

5 Responses to “Truvia Truths”

  1. January 11, 2010 at 7:17 am, Louisette said:

    I could not agree with you more!!! Cargil the provider I will not buy.
    All they after is money, lining their pockets. I t is the only reason why the FDA approved it.

  2. January 14, 2011 at 9:04 am, Suzanne said:

    I understand that sugar alcohold products like xylitol can cause diarhhea, irritable bowel and other symptoms.

  3. January 14, 2011 at 1:05 pm, admin said:

    Suzanne, I’ve heard that before too, but realistically it will only occur when taking large doses. If somebody is wolfing down spoonful after spoonful of it each day, they might [and most likely will] experience some of those symptoms. The key here is “moderation.”

  4. April 22, 2011 at 11:01 am, Jan said:

    I have heard that xytlitol is toxic for dogs. Not for humans, but you need to make sure dogs don’t get into something sweetened with xylitol.

    Is this correct?

  5. April 22, 2011 at 3:55 pm, Paul_Baeyens said:

    The ASPCA says, “within 30 minutes of consuming a small amount of a xylitol-sweetened product, dogs can experience a dramatic drop in blood sugar, and they usually begin vomiting, become lethargic and can have difficulty standing or walking. Some have seizures, develop internal hemorrhaging and lesions and suffer liver failure. As few as two or three sticks of xylitol gum could be toxic to a 20-pound dog.” So best keep your dog away from your chewing gum!

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