Artificial Sweetener Stevia

Though Stevia is 300 to 400 times sweeter than sugar, the Center of Science in the Public Interest, which is a food advocacy group, considers it safer than other substitutes and artificial sweeteners.

Many products club Stevia with other sugar alcohols like erythritol, which can cause digestive complications.

Stevia, a sugar substitute, is generally regarded as safe by health and food safety organizations. The studies that they rely on are industry-funded, so we have to take their take on this artificial sugar with a pinch of salt.

The World Health Organization says that the main extract o...