About the Brand
Gilbert, Arizona-based Wisdom Natural Brands is the parentcompany of five highly valued buyer brands: SweetLeaf Stevia, Wisdom of the Ancients Yerba Mate, Sweet and Slender Natural Sweetener, Wisdom Nutrition, and La Merced Organic Yerba Mate. James May, the founder of Wisdom Natural Brands, was involved in bringing stevia to the United States over 20 years ago. The company is now the leading US manufacturer of stevia and offers a full line of SweetLeaf Stevia products. They are available in commodious single-serving packets, liquid, powder, tabs, and concentrate, including their best-selling product, SweetLeaf SteviaPlus, which was devised by James? son, Steve. Together, this father-and-son team has introduced millions of people in North America to stevia.
At a time when manufacturers and buyers are growingly drawn to productions that assert to be all-natural, low calorie, and low in carbs, stevia has caught the eye of health conscious consumers. It has been around for centuries and is just now getting the rage with the sugar-shunning crowd in part because of the popularity of low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets that admonish sweets. Stevia is a nutritional supplement that adds a naturally sweet taste to your current diet. Made from an intensely sweet extract of natural stevia leaves, it has zero calories, zero carbohydrates and a zero glycemic index.
All natural, zero calories. SweetLeaf liquid stevia with all natural flavors is commodious and easy to use. As a supplement, add nutritious stevia to water, tea, coffee, milk, sparkling water, protein shakes, plain yogurt or anything else you may imagine. Zero carbohydrates. Zero glycemic index. (This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, heal or prevent any disease).
Product Details
- Size: 2
- Brand: SweetLeaf
- Model: STV-CLR-VC
- Released on: 2006-01-18
- Ingredients: Purified Water, pure Stevia leaf extract standardized to a minimum of 90% Steviosides including 40% Rebaudioside A, Grapefruit Seed Extract.
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 4.70? h x 1.25? w x 1.25? l, .13 pounds
Features
- Natural flavors with sweet stevia
- Only a penny per drop
- Zero calories and zero carbs
- Safe for diabetics
- Can be applied in closely anything
Reviews
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Tastes Delicous but made my belly hurt
By Marci Gilmore
I discovered Stevia about a year ago (around the same time I found out I had to give up sugar!) and really I like the taste of stevia so much I don?t even miss sugar?okay well maybe I miss sugar a little bit but eliminating sugar from my diet would of been much more difficult if it weren?t for stevia.
One thing to be aware of is that many stevia products have an ingredient called xylitol which if you have a sensitive stomach it can give you belly aches from just ingesting a little bit. I found this out the hard way, not a big deal because I was able to return the product without a hassle, great customer service on amazon. I have learned that pure stevia powder, 30 Grams (1.06 Oz) Stevia 95% Steviosides Bulk Powder contains no xylitol and certain liquids do to but if they do not explicitily say it in the product description, you can be sure that it will contain xylitol since its cheaper to sell it that way. I?m just glad that I have an alternative to sugar substitues like equal and splenda because for some reason my taste buds could never get use to those artifical sweeteners.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Sweet Leaf vs. Better Stevia
By Liliana
I bought this product for the first time 7 months ago. I bought NOW Foods Stevia Liquid Extract Alcohol, 8 Ounce Bottle three months later. My motive was to compare these products and see which one is best for me.
I will try to be as detailed as possible. So again I am evaluating ?Sweet Leaf: Liquid Stevia Vanilla Creme? and ?Now Foods: Better Stevia Original?.
At first, I expected Better Stevia to be what the packaging described, a better alternative to Stevia drinkers. I expected it to be exactly what they advertised in its packaging:
-Better tasting
-Just as healthy
etc.
To compare them, I alternated an average of 6 drops into my morning coffee everyday.
==Taste Evaluation==
After everyday usage of these two products and after testing them extensively; I see no -significant- difference between the two in taste. Please do take into consideration that I did not test these by serving suggestion amount (see Suggested Serving below).
==Ingredients==
Now let?s talk about the ingredients. Both products claim to be made with natural ingredients. ?Sweet Leaf: Liquid Stevia Vanilla Creme? lists ?natural flavors? apart from ?Stevia extract?. ?Now Foods Better Stevia Original? lists ?water?, ?certified Organic Stevia extract? and ?11% alcohol?.
Sweet Leaf has quite an advantage, since it does not list alcohol as an ingredient.
I wanted more evidence about ingredients. I thought that Sweet Leaf was trying to pull as fast one, by passing alcohol as a ?natural flavor?; like many companies have done.
So I visited the Sweet Leaf website and found this: ?SweetLeaf Stevia? Sweetener does not use chemicals, alcohols, solvents or enzymes at any stage of the extraction and purification process.?
Bingo. Sweet Leaf has -no alcohol-.
==Suggested Serving and Packaging==
?Sweet Leaf: Liquid Stevia Vanilla Creme? serving suggestion is 5 to 8 drops and contains a dropper for easier administration of the product. You can count exactly how many drops you?re serving. As long as you don?t go beyond 7-8 drops it should not be bitter at all.
?Now Foods Better Stevia Original? serving suggestion is 1 to 4 drops and has a split-open cap that it?s very messy. You can?t count by drops, usually it spills to the body of the container. It is very difficult to measure exactly how much you?re administering. I found that many times the bitterness was noticeable due to not knowing how much I was using.
Final evaluation from 1 to 5.
Taste:
?Sweet Leaf: Liquid Stevia Vanilla Creme? = 5
?Now Foods Better Stevia Original? = 5
Ingredients:
?Sweet Leaf: Liquid Stevia Vanilla Creme? = 5
?Now Foods Better Stevia Original? = 4
Suggested Serving and Packaging:
?Sweet Leaf: Liquid Stevia Vanilla Creme? = 5
?Now Foods Better Stevia Original? = 2
All in all Sweet Leaf wins, for several reasons. The packaging makes it very easy to serve the product properly. When I used the Sweet Leaf dropper with the Better Stevia I found that 4 drops weren?t bitter. But adding 8 drops of Better Stevia started to make my drink bitter. So Better Stevia claims it tastes better, as long as you follow their serving suggestion. Sweet Leaf tastes better otherwise.
And to folks who really care about their alcohol intake for whatever reason; Sweet Leaf claims to have none.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Unpleasant aftertaste
By M. Mock
I?m a bona fide fan of Stevia. I ordered this bottle after I read so many positive reviews, but I was disappointed in the distinct aftertaste of this product. I much prefer the unflavored Stevia granules I have been using for over a year.
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