Comments on: Homemade Sugar-Free Kool Aid {Fruit Punch with No Artificial Sweeteners}

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:08:08 +0000

I agree with what you say about the bitterness in some teas. I’ve been making iced and hot tea for many years (I’m 71 but who’s counting!) My mama always said “NEVER SQUEEZE” the tea bags into the finished steeped tea because that’s what makes it bitter..

By: Brenda Bennett

Brenda Bennett — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:39:13 +0000

In reply to Kelly Patterson.

Yep!https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/keto-homemade-electrolyte-drink-lemon-orange-and-lime/ and cocoa https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/sugar-free-dairy-free-keto-hot-chocolate/

By: Kelly Patterson

Kelly Patterson — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:45:27 +0000

hi I’m a type one diabetic and was wondering if you have any other sugar free drinks you have made

By: Brenda Bennett

Brenda Bennett — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:08:52 +0000

In reply to Teresa Brown. It's most likely the tea flavor you used.

By: Teresa Brown

Teresa Brown — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:46:32 +0000

This tastes very perfumy to me. Is that from the tea? (I’m not a tea drinker)

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 17:43:50 +0000

In reply to noname.

Clarity is always a good thing, but touting the sucralose as a savior-sweetener is misguided. In chemistry, even the smallest changes can completely alter what the end result is. You can drink ethanol (booze), but methanol will kill you – one carbon molecule makes the difference. Same with water and hydrogen peroxide.

That said, a recent study has shows than sucralose (also known as Splenda) is genotoxic – it damages DNAs. Here’s the study: https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/05/genotoxic-chemical-in-sweetener/

It also has been found to contribute to leaky gut and autoimmune dysfunction.

Everything has its pros and cons, but Stevia sure hasn’t had that type of long-term negative effect up to this point and I, personally, no longer mess with sucralose.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:41:03 +0000

In reply to noname. You have any info you can cite for this information you shared?

By: noname

noname — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:45:19 +0000

Stevia is an artificial sweetener. Extracted directly from a plant using negligible processing, it is a natural sweetener, which is what I think you meant, but it is definitely not sucrose, fructose, glucose, maltose or any other defined sugar. This makes it is an artificial sweetener, just the same as any sugar alcohol like sorbitol, maltitol, xylitol, etc. and, healthwise, is on par with aspartame, acesulphame or any other chemical substitute.

Stevia is only truly healthy for diabetics as a direct substitute for sugar, as it can lead to kidney damage from over-use and is a known endochrine disruptor.

The safest alternative sweetener to sucrose (even among other sugars) is sucralose, which is nearly chemically identical to sucrose except for three hydroxyl groups being traded for Chlorine atoms, making it nearly undigestible. Most sucralose passes right through our digestive system and what little is absorbed is quickly broken down and passed in urine. It does not provide any calories at all but is a defined artificial sweetener.

Not everything natural is good (arsenic is 100% natural) and not everything artificial is bad. The word ‘artificial’ has been usurped as a buzzword and dog whistle to represent some people’s uncertainty and fear about what they don’t know and aren’t willing to put in the effort to unlearn the falsehoods they’ve been taught.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:25:26 +0000

Does this have to be refrigerated?

By: Carole Tutic

Carole Tutic — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:32:37 +0000

I can’t wait to try this. Thank you for a great recipe! Love your site so much!

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:10:53 +0000

In reply to Carole Tutic. Sure!

By: Carole Tutic

Carole Tutic — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 23:08:01 +0000

Could I turn this into a JELLO if I added unflavored gelatin? This is a great recipe! Thank you!

By: Christopher Kidwell

Christopher Kidwell — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:48:01 +0000

The issue is most likely because of the bitter taste of the average tea on the markets today. I personally do not like bitter tea which is what tea without some form of sweetener 9 times out of 10 is.
The Blueberry and Acai berry is covering up the bitter tea taste.
It could also just be that your daughter is one of those who likes X until she finds out it is Y, but that is rare.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 06:31:38 +0000

In reply to Cait. Will this lower my electorlites

By: pam

pam — Fri, 22 May 2015 21:34:28 +0000

NOW Foods has very consistent products.
I buy 8 oz of liquid Stevia by NOW Foods from Supplement Warehouse. It is about $14.00. Other websites charges much as double for same. I use 2 spoonfuls of this for 1/2 gallon of black cherry kool aid, it makes it very sweet. They also have powdered but with that you use a lot more to achieve the same results.