What is your favorite sweetener?

[Incitatus]

Poll question: What is your favorite sweetener?

[Kip Humphrey]

1. Other: agave nectar

Whole Foods carries it and it has a low glycemic index.

[supernova]

14. Agave Nectar is wonderful!

Kinda like maple syrup, but sweeter and no sugar rush.

[Sanctified]

22. Agave Nectar is by far the best sweetner.

I love to make a big pot of coffee turn it off and let it cool then drink it iced with agave nectar, since agave nectar is already a liquid it works perfect as a sweetener for cold drinks.

[panader0]

2. Honey

[get the red out]

3. Is the question "Which one is easiest to survive?"

[dipsydoodle]

4. Always "Sugar"

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pdra0GTRpRE

[lpbk2713]

5. Sugar ... in moderation.

I avoid artificial sweeteners as much as possible.

[CoffeeCat]

6. I use Sweet and Low...

...am I a bad person or am I just headed for an early death?

[jobycom]

7. Maple syruple.

But you should add Stevia to the list, just because.

[Joe the Liberal]

8. Sugar I guess......

I've never had any of the others.

[Ediacara]

16. You've never had honey?

[Pyrzqxgl]

9. A Democrat in The White House.

[Richard D]

10. For me

Agave Syrup and Xylitol. Treats are Maple syrup and real (not chinese!) honey.

[KittyWampus]

11. Other: Stevia, Agave Nectar, Erythritol, Xylitol

[Jane Austin]

12. Stevia

Mr. JaneAustin prefers it in his coffee to all other sweeteners.

[tibbir]

13. Stevia - my choice as well

[Allyoop]

15. Stevia

Unless I need a sweetener in cooking or baking. Then I either go with brown or regular sugar, honey, molasses, etc. sometimes mixed with stevia.

[Yavapai]

17. Other. My wife waits for my coffee to cool, then stirs it with her finger.

(She was watching over my shoulder when I wrote that, maybe I will get lucky)

[blue cat]

21. good thinking!

luck increases when you think ahead like that!

[oldnslo]

35. Your wife has no couth--that finger could've been anywhere........

[cali]

18. Maple syrup. Grade B dark for my coffee

Medium Amber for oatmeal. Grade A for pancakes and french toast. I go through a lot of maple syrup. It's virtually the only sweetener I use.

[dysfunctional press]

27. do you know of anyplace to buy it in bulk?

:shrug:

the price in the stores has pretty much doubled over the past year- i use a lot of it as well, and i'm wondering if there's anyplace in vermont or canada(none of that new hampshire swill) that sells it by the barrel, or at least a 5-gallon bucketful. i've searched the inter-tubes a few times, but to no avail.

[BlooInBloo]

19. lol! I only even KNOW what 2 of those even ARE.

[ZombieHorde]

20. Other

My wife's smile.

[Triana]

23. stevia. n/t

[ecstatic]

24. Splenda... I guess.. Until I'm frightened away from that

like I was with aspartame. :eyes:

[morningglory]

25. a. Stevia b. honey

[dysfunctional press]

26. pure maple syrup.

NOT maple-flavored hfcs.

there's NOTHING better over ice cream.

[trof]

28. Greenback dollars

That always sweetens the deal.
;-)

[Dover]

29. Agave or honey. Use them all the time.

For baking I just use regular sugar.

[Dover]

30. WHY do you want to know?

Are you a marketer?

[Warpy]

31. I like Splenda the best

because it leaves little aftertaste in my tea. I just have to watch my intake because too much of a good thing gives me the runs.

I need sugar or honey for baking because of the chemistry of baking.

I dislike the taste of Stevia and Aspartame breaks down in hot liquids and leaves a chemical aftertaste in cold ones.

The rest of you are perfectly free to use what works for you.

[and-justice-for-all]

34. I did use Splenda and I still do when we go out for dinner...

but I went back to sugar recently because it is a natural food and not chemically altered, plus sugar is cheaper.

[Sebastian Doyle]

32. Whatever's the least processed and has the least chemicals added

In other words, yes to the maple syrup, agave, honey, and regular old sugar if the others aren't available. Stevia when the "sugarless" option is needed.

Never high fructose corn poison or aspartame. Fuck Monsanto with Tom Vilsack's dick.

[juajen]

33. I use splenda, but sometimes use stevia. NT

[Native]

36. Depends on what I'm sweetening . . .

I use organic sugar most often, but I also use honey & pure maple syrup.

[LiberalHeart]

37. Whatever Sweet 'n Low is.

[LWolf]

38. Stevia. nt

[pitohui]

39. molasses probably

i like them all but you need different sugars for different circumstance, a high quality honey or a maple syrup can be excellent, and sometimes nothing dissolves better than a little white cane sugar

for health purposes, i guess i like saccharine the best, you need only a trace amount, but to many people it tastes bitter -- to me aspartame is sickeningly sweet and i've occasionally had a bad reaction to splenda, which i otherwise like (not to sickly sweet)

so many choices...

to me stevia tastes like a weed, i'm surprised it gets many votes, agave nectar can be good but not as tasty as a good honey IMHO