I love soda, but its calories and sugar content are killing my diet.  I've tried many brands of diet sodas, but I am very turned off by the taste of aspartame and even Splenda.Then I found out about stevia -- an herb native to South and Central America. For centuries, indigenous people of Paraguay and Brazil called it "sweet leaf" and used it to sweeten foods. The extract fro...

I acquired two packets of Sun Crystals free in the mail as a result of a promotion on their website. Sun Crystals is an interesting low-calorie sweetener. It is a blend of stevia and real sugar. Stevia is a calorie-free plant. Each packet is 5 calories each.As the name Sun Crystals suggests, the sweetener has actual crystals. In other words, it is granulated versus the typical po...