NKD Living 100% Pure Stevia Powder, Reb-A 98% (25g)

When I first bought this, I used it once and found it horrendous, then stuck to my supermarket branded stevia tablets. Once I ran out of those tablets months later, I realised this is actually excellent.Most ‘stevia powder’ products have LOTS of filler, often with erythritol, hence why you use 1tsp, with the aim of matching sugar. This isn’t a health concern, but ultimately it’s just wasting money. Stevia in pure form is 200-400x sweeter than sugar. For argument’s sake, let’s say 300x sweeter. That means that to match a tsp of sugar, you need about 1/300 of a tsp of stevia powder. The scoop it comes with is too large in my opinion, you want to be very cautious. If you put even a bit too much then it will make your tea or coffee taste horrendous. Hence, my realisation that I when used correctly, this product is of incredible quality and is great value for money. It will take a bit of trial and error, you’ll have a few overly sweet cups of tea and overly bitter ones, but once you find the perfect sweet spot (no pun intended) it becomes second nature.Bitter aftertaste is no reason to give a poor review, as this effect varies from person to person (genetics) and is a stevia thing rather than having anything to do with this speicific product. What I will say is to stick with using this for at least a week, I found in my case that my taste buds adapted and I actually love the taste of stevia and have no bitter aftertaste.I have used this daily for a couple months and will never go back to Splenda (Sucralose) or even stevia tablets. Stevia is in my opinion the best sweetener by far for hot drinks, and the healthiest. Sugar alcohols like Xylitol, and especially Erythritol are great for the teeth, but have too minty of a taste.

Very good value for money, a little bit goes a long way and lasts ages. Very sweet and helps for dieting purposes as it has a very low glycaemic index (0). A healthy alternative.

I doubt this is pure Stevia because in cold drinks I can taste a metallic taste same as tasting it raw and it kind of lingers on the tongue so maybe it has been cut with artificial/synthetic sweeteners (which are bad for you) The sweetness is more than enough so a little goes a long way but in hot drinks you can not taste the metallic.

I have bought this product twice already and I like it and tea, coffee, ceress and cereals. It is indeed very sweet and does not have a bitter aftertaste. However it does have one major problem, or rather two and the vendors should look into this. The powder is extremely fine and it does not handle easily. It sticks onto the little spoon and invariably some of it gets wasted as a result. It is very easy to spell because the kind of bottle and if it is packaged is not the right size. Furthermore, the spoon that is provided with it is utterly useless. It’s far too big and it should be something that could stay inside the jar. If the vendors packaged this product in a slightly narrower and taller jar the spoon could stay inside. The spoon should be redesigned. The extremely fine powder does not handle well.

Bitter tasting.

Made the mistake of putting 1 scoop in my coffee ( scoop comes with the box) this is very sweet powder !! As I’m struggling to cut out sugar, this stuff is really good, I think one scoop is probably about a heaped tablespoon of sugar, so although the container is small it’s going to go a very long way !! I only wanted pure stevia, without all the nasty other sweeteners . I’m very happy with this item, haven’t tried cooking with it yet, but can’t see there being a problem, I’m going to have to find this in pill form as taking the power out to a cafe would be a pain.

Okay, I get all of the negative experiences of some here. Here is my good experience. Straight off the bat, I took the suggestion of one customer who found that the little container was awkward to access and had the puff of powder on opening and close without the puff of powder, I had my little screw lidded glass jar ready to deal with this even though some of the powder which seemed statically charged and clung on to the plastic container’s crevices. Once transferred it has been fine. I do not happen to need sugar in tea or coffee so I cannot make a judgement on this. I purchased this for culinary purposes. However I would add that during the transfer to the glass jar, my thumb got a very fine coating so I cautiously liked it, I found no fault as others have but then we all are sensitive in differing ways - I can not imagine not liking sprouts as many do, many people cannot understand my very strong aversion to parsnips.I have a micro scale that deals in .00 grams, one little spoon of this weighs 0.14 grams with the sweetening power of 470 grams of sugar power. This meant that even these scales would not measure for recipes requiring say 50 grams of sugar or erithratol.So I just envisaged what a tenth of this weeny spoon would look like and took my chances in my first experiment with a recipe for coffee pana cotta - got the sweetness just right first time. I have not detected any weird bitter after taste as with 000 stevia. The result was just as if sugar was used. I whooped in delight, this was freedom to have the odd sweet tasting treat on my low carb diet. I am itching to try out my keto recipe for tiramisu without resorting to erythritol etc.So far my experience is good. No big bags of sugar or other sweeteners to store. A one off payment for the sweetness of many bags. If I encounter any pit falls I will report back again.

I have a very large mug of tea first thing, I usually about 1.25 heaped teaspoons of sugar in. Just one level teaspoon of the tiny plastic teaspoon you get with this tiny container is too sweet. So be careful, start low and add more if needed. That said, putting it in after makes it trickier to dissolve. The flavour is really good but not the same as sugar, it's sweet but slightly different. I'm very happy though as without sugar my tea is yuck! So this is a really good compromise. Happy to keep using it. And not just in my tea!