LOW CARB STEVIA/TRUVIA QUESTION

[Tortington]

having erad that there are no carbs in stevia truvia products - excitedly i bought one of each from morrisons yesteray - got home and am reading lable and it says 1.5 carbs per sachet

whats that all about?

ordinary sweetner is only 1 carb

whats going on?

sorry - having read on MUMSNET!

ITS ALL YOUR FAULT

so its pointless buying it in reality?

There will be a 'bulking agent' to pad the stevia out - you need to check what it is for the brand you bought. I panicked when I saw the same on the one dp had bought, but that uses erythritol, which is labelled as carbs but is a polyol (therefore counted as 0)

righto that clears it up nicely thanks.

although i find over 10 polyols a day isn't good ( for me)

truvia looks ok then - i have another one - which looking at the bulking agent - looks shit. might put in back of cupboard for emergencies only

This really confuses me.

I bought the truvia cos it was on offer and haven't used it yet. I still use Total Sweet which I think is nice but try not to have too much of.

i know its bnot simple to get your head around at all - but i have found out to my cost that over 10 polyols for me is tantermount to eating a cream cake.
and sometimes it give one the shits

Erythritol should be ok - it has a GI of 0. Maltitol on the other hand has a GI of nearly 50 making it almost as bad as sugar, it's also the most used polyol since it's cheap.

ooooooh ty useful