PureVia All Natural Zero Calorie Sweetener Review

PureVia is a sweetener, through and through. In fact it was sweeter than a sweetener or sugar would be. It comes in small "sticks," the preferred packaging for small amounts of anything powdered these days. The first way I tried using it was in my cup of tea. It was a large travel mug size. I typically drink my tea very strong, but even still, I wouldn't have ever missed out on the fact that I added a sweetener to the tea. With just one small "stick" of PureVia, it was really sweet, too sweet in fact.

The next way to try PureVia was in my hot cereal. I cannot imagine eating any hot cereal without adding a little sugar to it after it's made, unless it's individual packets of pre-sweetened oatmeal. This particular day I was eating maple and brown sugar-flavored Malt-O-Meal. Normally I can dump a few spoonfuls of sugar in here. But just one small "stick of PureVia made this really sweet, borderline too sweet. I started to realize at this point that I just shouldn't use the whole stick every time.

I was Jones-ing for some cinnamon toast today in a big way. Instead of making "toast," I like to make it a bit gooier. I butter some slices of bread, sprinkle cinnamon-sugar on, and microwave for a few seconds so that the buttter and cinnamon sugar melt together and get a little gooey. This never happened with the PureVia. I mixed up a few "sticks" of the sweetener with some cinnamon, and spread it on. It never melted into the butter, though. And as far as the taste, instead of being incredibly sweet like it was in the tea or hot cereal, it had a strange manufactured taste.

I'll keep using the PureVia, but I'm going to restrict it to just adding it as a sweetener, and nothing where the sweetness takes on too large of a factor, like in the cinnamon toast. I just won't use the whole stick.