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What do you guys think of Stevia[1]? Has been recently approved in the EU for use as an all natural sweetener and I see products popping up here and there pretending to be based on it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

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I've used Stevia a few times, but am not a fan. While it's definitely sweet, it's a very different sweet compared to sugar. When drinking something (like coffee) with Stevia, I notice that it's sweet on a different part of my tongue, and it's a latent sweet - initially the drink tastes completely unsweetened until it reaches the back of my mouth.

This is just my experience, maybe I'm weird.

I have eaten stuff with Stevia, not sure what it is about it though, but it causes my muscles to ache.

I can be completely fine, eat something sweetened with Stevia and about an hour or two later my muscles will start aching. It is worst in my shoulders :-(.

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