Are there any drinks made with stevia

There are other Coca-Cola beverages - such as Sprite in the UK - which also use a blend of stevia and sugar. Show more. Report abuse. View more comments. Free newsletter Subscribe Sign up to our free newsletter and get the latest news sent direct to your inbox. Coca-Cola Stevia No Sugar, however, will be sweetened with stevia alone.

The evolution of Life at Coca-Cola. Janet Renee has over a decade of experience as a registered dietitian. Renee attended the University of California, Berkeley and holds an M. Andrea Boldt. Andrea Boldt has been in the fitness industry for more than 20 years. A personal trainer, run coach, group fitness instructor and master yoga teacher, she also holds certifications in holistic and fitness nutrition.

Stevia is found in many different drinks. Video of the Day. Tip Drinks with stevia are a little harder to find than those with other nonnutritive sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.

What Is Stevia? Stevia Compared to Sugar. Safety of Stevia. Drinks With Stevia. Weight Loss and Stevia. Glucose Control and Stevia. PepsiCo just unveiled a new soda containing a plant-based sweetener called stevia. The drink was made for anti-sugar consumers seeking an alternative to artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame. But there's a problem: Stevia's bitter aftertaste is widely polarizing, and as a result, many analysts have predicted it will ultimately fail. Stevia is the same zero-calorie alternative to sugar that caused an uproar this summer when Coca-Cola began quietly adding it to VitaminWater.

Consumers hated the taste of the new sugar-and-stevia blend and Coca-Cola was ultimately forced to return to its original recipe. Pepsi's new drink, called Pepsi True, also contains a blend of sugar and stevia. Compared to a regular Pepsi, the 7. Coke recently launched a similar stevia-and-sugar carbonated beverage called Coke Life. Since the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of rebaudioside A Reb A as a general purpose sweetener in December, major beverage marketers have been rushing new stevia-infused drinks into stores.

Coca-Cola is using the stevia-derived sweetener Truvia in two of its Odwalla juice drinks and in the new Sprite Green. PepsiCo added its version of stevia to Sobe Lifewater drinks and has launched a new Tropicana orange juice, Trop50, containing 50 percent less sugar and calories. Certainly, there's plenty to worry about when it comes to how many calories we guzzle each day. A recent study by researchers at Louisiana State University's School of Public Health found that liquid calories are a bigger problem than food when it comes to weight gain, and that sugar-sweetened beverages are the main culprit.

What's worse, Americans consume an average of 20 teaspoons of added sugars a day, about twice as much as recommended, according to government reports. Stevia may have no calories, but you shouldn't make it a regular dietary staple, says New York City-based nutritionist Keri Gans, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.