The doctor said cut the sugar. We checked the trials.
Read the guide30 healthy men, 2017
First hour: the sugar drink sent glucose and insulin up. The stevia drink did not.
Tey, 2017
The drink trialThe men ate more at lunch, and made up the saved calories at later meals.
Tey, 2017
After lunchIn 122 adults with type 2 diabetes, 16 weeks of a purified stevia compound changed HbA1c no differently from a placebo.
Maki, 2008
Type 2 trials12 people with type 2 diabetes, one meal: glucose rose 18% less after 1 g of purified stevioside. A test dose, not your pinch.
Gregersen, 2004
Meal testA 2024 review of 26 studies: low certainty that stevia lowers blood glucose.
On medicine or insulin? Talk to your doctor first.
The reviewThe front says stevia. The back often says something else first. The article reads the label with you.
From The Sweet Change
Monk Fruit Drops
Monk fruit extract, water and vitamin C
Monk Fruit Powder
Monk fruit, guar fibre and allulose, no erythritol