We’re laughing at ourselves. In yesterday’s poll we asked if you prefer cake or pie, and today we skipped the desserts and went right to the sweet source: sugar! Yesterday we said we had food on our mind, but what we think we meant is we have sweet treats on our mind. If we ask you another question about sweets this week… please send help!
Anyway, when sweetening foods or beverages (like your morning coffee or tea), what do you use? Sugar? Honey? Sweet’N Low? Splenda?
Tell us in the poll below. If you use something else in your beverages or foods, leave a comment and tell us what it is. Thank you!
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You forgot Pure Maple syrup on here
As a backyard producer of it I use it alot for a sweetener
I’ll second Maple Syrup. We use it more than sugar.
I use Sweet n Low in my morning coffee and regular sugar on my cereal. Trying to use it on anything other than beverages leaves an after taste to me.
I’ve used diet drinks most of my life, for over 50 years my preferred drink was iced tea sweetened with saccharine and if I chose a soft drink it was Sam’s Choice diet cola. The last 5 years with my new bride it has been water(as my daughter in law says, diet water, lol). My wife says she can’t stand diet soft drinks, but if we are in a restaurant we order ice tea and sweeten it with Splenda, go figure. Lol
Oh I forgot contrary to what the scientist said back in 1972 saccharine hasn’t given me cancer.
I don’t use sweeteners in my coffee or anything else. I like my coffee black and I like a dark roast. Putting sweeteners or cream masks the natural taste of coffee.
We use Stevia. It’s supposed to be natural, tastes good in coffee etc. we use Truvia cane sugar blend (yes, it has some cane sugar) which measures like pure sugar for baking and cooking.
As sweet as I am, I don’t need anything!
Actually use Artificial if it matters.
I use very little sweetener at all. A pinch of sugar in iced tea. A teaspoon of maple syrup on my oatmeal. The only Soda I drink is club soda.
I don’t use sweetener anymore. Use to love sugar in coffee and tea. When I had to quit sugar. I tried Stevia, but it had a aftertaste once swallowed.. Used a Stevia sugar mix to wean myself off sugar till they quit making
the kind I liked. Giving up sugar was tough
Being a diebetic type II, I have no choice but cut sugar. Over the years it has gotten easier admitting once a month one time during the day I will have a plain donut. You do what You got to do. Tried Maple syrup one time glucose level off the charts. It’s like 800 grams per table spoon. Miss it for sure.
I am a Type II Diabetic also. We do not use any type of sweetener as we do not drink coffee or sweetened tea. We probably consume too much sugar in normal dieting. Tough to have to keep reading the nutrition labels on every item in the super market. Stay safe, Stay well, Safe travels
Great survey. Surprised so many still use sugar. If you could break the results down by age groups of 10 year increments I think that it would expose a migration from sugar to substitutes with age.
Somewhere along the line I think it was decided (by those who ‘know everything’ . . .) that real sugar was better for you than any kind of substitute. I think it had something to do with the chemical makeup of the sweeteners. Similar to going back to real butter instead of margarine or whatever else is out there.
I do what I can to minimize sugar in my diet and I like the way things taste without adding extra sweetness.
Coffee black but any other drink I use Splenda. The DW is fabulous in using Splenda blends in her baking.
monkfruit sweetener
Physician told me use sugar, but half as much.
I use stevia which isn’t sugar or honey and is natural not artificial and not represented in the poll. Some people say it has an after taste, my daughter says it taste like chemicals. I have never noticed an after taste or any funny chemical taste and have used it exclusively for many years.
Honey and raw sugar in that order, as I try to keep things natural.
I have a slice of toast with butter and homemade jam about three or four times a week for breakfast. That’s the only sweetening I do.
I use sugar in my coffee and iced tea (added when the tea is hot). My wife uses artificial sweetners. I think it is the stuff in blue packets. We keep the stuff in yellow packets and in pink packets for company.
I don’t use sweeteners, but like yesterday’s poll…I LOVE CAKE AND PIE!!!
Sugar for sure. Don’t like the chemicals nor the taste
We grow & use stevia. It’s kind to the body.
I collect local honey from wherever I travel and use that when I am in the area. It helps to diminish my seasonal allergy symptoms.
Don’t add sweetener to my drinks. If I need something sweet I get a kiss from my DW. 😊
That’s very sweet, Tom. Obviously, you’re not one of those husbands who said yesterday if they had to get rid of 250 pounds from their RV, they’d leave their wife behind. 😆 Have a great day! 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com
Right on Tom!
I admit I will always choose sugar, whole milk, real eggs, and real butter. Growing up on a farm may have impacted my practice. We raised chickens, hogs, and had dairy cows. DYK margarine was developed to fatten turkeys but they had enough sense not to eat it.
I can’t remember the last time I used / added ANY kind of sweetener to my food or beverages. I generally do NOT buy products that contain High Fructose Corn Sweetener (HFCS) either. In my youth, I did add copious amounts of sugar to coffee. tea etc but, I broke that habit LOOOOONG ago.
I use natural sweeteners, rarely refined sugar, but I do use coconut sugar, honey, stevia and maple syrup when baking. No sweeteners in my tea or coffee.
We have been using a natural sweetner called monk fruit for several years. It comes in granular, powdered as well as brown form.
Being prediabetic I use sweeteners in my drinks except when I drink hot tea then it’s honey.
The “diet” sweeteners are chemicals which contribute more to weight gain than sugar. Probably cause other body problems.
Aspartamine is basically phenylalanine, which is called PKU disease when unable to metabolize it, causing a buildup of toxins which cause mental retardation in infants and children. What is not widely known is that many people have only borderline metabolism of this substance, and excess can cause hallucinations. It happened to me. Which is why I now rely on walking and wise food selections to maintain health.