yuck

[kindkit]

You know what needs to go away?

Stevia.

It can still be available for people who actually like it and want to use it. But it shouldn't be in things. In particular, it should not be lurking at the bottom of the ingredient list in otherwise tasty-sounding herbal teas, like the box I nearly bought today. Nor should it be in the Yogi Tea I bought a while ago without reading the ingredients carefully enough; I've decided that the sickly-sweet stevia aftertaste is the main problem with the tea, which would otherwise be okay.

Why don't tea manufacturers think I might want to decide for myself whether I want my tea to be sweet, and if so how sweet, and what kind of sweetener I want to use?

Comments

[lycomingst]

Why in the world would anybody put sweetener in ordinary tea?

[lilacsigil]

In a TEA BAG? That's terrible! I'm an inveterate ingredient reader because artificial sweeteners (including stevia) taste like metal to me, but I wouldn't have checked a tea bag!

[shehasathree]

ewwww :s

[st_aurafina]

It was in the tea-bag? WT-ACTUAL-F?

That's just wrong. Abominable.

[tree_and_leaf]

Nor should it be in the Yogi Tea I bought a while ago without reading the ingredients carefully enough

No, it really shouldn't! How bizarre. Either they've changed the recipe, or this is a special effort for the US market, because I used to buy a lot of Yogi tea, and it was never presweetened, unless you count the ones that had dried liquorice in (which generally listed that prominently as a main ingredient and a warning to liquorice haters like me.)

[bobcatmoran]

Stevia. In a tea bag. WTF. I can understand putting it in, say, bottled teas, even though I personally don't like it, but you don't pre-sweeten tea bags. Good grief.