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I was wondering the same thing. I checked my bag of regular sugar and it has 4g of carbs per tsp as well.
I think because it doesn't affect your blood sugar level the way regular sugar does, is why it's okay to have on low carb diets.
I was able to find stevia drops that have zero carbs in it, although I have a tough time with the after taste.
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Not sure about erythritol or monk fruit, but to get the equivalent "sweetness" as a tsp of sugar, you only need a fraction of stevia (making it very low in carbs).
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Leeann I’m not sure that is quite right. Artificial sweetners do not have any or very few calories, but recent research is indicating that any sweetener, artificial or real, will cause an insulin reaction, as it makes your body expect sweetners and elevates insulin. This is especially bad for diabetics, but also affects those pre-diabetics and insulin-resistant types.
“Put as simply as possible, nutritional ketosis reduces elevated insulin levels and inflammation, which allows the normal signals from excess body fat stores to tell the brain “Eat less!” Therefore, when heavy people eat a well-formulated ketogenic diet to satiety, they tend to lose quite a bit of weight until the balance of these signals naturally guides them to a stable lower weight.”
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Monk Fruit in the Raw is 0.5 g of carbs per tsp. You can get a bag on Amazon. Stevia in the Raw is "less than 1g" per tsp but that could be 0.9; still better than 4g. I bought a bag of erythritol without realizing it was 4g per tsp. I haven't used it yet.
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I stand corrected!
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Depends on the erythritol that you buy. Look at what it is being made from. Anthony's brand (I bought on Amazon) is derived from non GMO cane sugar. From what I have heard and researched about this particular product, 90-95% of ingested erythritol passes through your system, while the remaining 5-10% gets broken down in your small intestine and feeds the good bacteria that live there.
I do know that (in the case of Keto dieting anyway), erythritol has no impact on blood sugar or ketones. There is a YouTube channel called 2 Fit Docs who took a series of blood glucose and ketone readings before drinking coffee with various sweeteners in them. I'll post a link to this video at the end of this increasingly enlarging response haha.
https://youtu.be/zNvogXKWYTw (Erythritol, Monk Fruit, Xylitol, Allulose)
