Gf Aspartame/splenda-free Diet Soda

[UIDancer]

Wow, what a title! Does anyone know of a gluten-free diet soda that does not contain aspartame or Splenda? I suppose I'm okay with trying Xylitol but I'm trying to go with all natural and no or very low-calorie options. I'm asking for a lot, I know.

Thanks!

Devon

[KaitiUSA]

I'm with you on liking the natural things...Xylitol is a natural sweetener that comes from birch trees. It's also ok for diabetics and hypoglycemics...I think it is low calorie...

[skbird]

Supposedly in Japan they make Diet Coke with stevia. I think that's so cool! But they don't consider stevia a sweetener/food here in the US so they can't use it.

What I tend to do is take club soda and add fruit flavor and liquid stevia (comes with an eyedropper). That makes a great soda. Also, there is a cookbook for stevia and they have a recipe in there for making your own sodas - the way you make root beer, for example. You take the root beer flavoring, add it to water, yeast, a little sugar (gets consumed), and stevia and bottle it, store it in a cool place for a couple of weeks, then serve it and it's carbonated (from the yeast). I don't have the recipe on me but it's something like that.

But the simple way is the extract, stevia, and club soda. I haven't found any but root beer flavor in the grocery stores but if you go to a home brew shop you should be able to find cola, etc. Or perhaps on the web.

Stephanie