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Southern sweet tea is one of my favorite beverages but if it’s made right it’s anything but low carb. You have to boil the sugar in the water and then steep the tea in it. It makes a difference in the flavor that I can taste immediately.
Needless to say I don’t like unsweet tea or even unsweet tea with sweetener. It just never gets the right kind of sweet.
You can’t boil sweetener in water either, so I just pretty much gave up ever drinking sweet tea again. I know, this isn’t rocket science but it was a big deal to me — and if you grew up on that syrupy sweet stuff we call sweet tea you’ll totally understand.
One day I decided to see if Xylitol would work. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that doesn’t raise blood sugar levels. It’s the sweetener that Atkins uses in their shakes and snack bars. You get to totally discount the carbs from it.
There is one teeny problem. Some people are sensitive to it. If you don’t know how your body reacts to this stuff it’s best to drink it when you aren’t going anywhere for a few hours. It has a, well let’s just say it can have a cleansing effect on the system.
I used less Xylitol than I would have sugar and then after the tea was all done I did add a little more sweet flavor with my stevia powder. It was close enough to the real thing that I sat and drank a pitcher of it.
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