Fit-a-Rita is a top story in today’s news:
www.prweb.com/releases/low-calorie/margarita/prweb542527.htm
Fit-a-Rita is a top story in today’s news:
www.prweb.com/releases/low-calorie/margarita/prweb542527.htm
9 Comments
Hmm. Interesting.
The sweetener used in this drink is “Stevia”.
According to Wikipedia: “In the United States, it is legal to import, grow, sell, and consume stevia products if contained within or labeled for use as a dietary supplement, but not as a food additive.”
Maybe Wikipedia is outdated.
On another note, just because someone adds vitamins to Tequila that doesn’t make it “Healthy”.
It simply makes it “Less Toxic.”
Of course, if you approach it as a “Tequila Meditation”, you may harvest positive results.
On defense of Stevia.
“The general tone of the FDA is that stevia is an unsafe substance until proven otherwise. Artificial sweeteners, as you have seen, are in contrast generally viewed as benign chemical compounds that are considered safe until someone shows them data to the contrary. Stevia is guilty until proven innocent; artificial sweeteners are innocent until proven guilty.”
Dr Mercola
Stevia is a plant you can grow in your yard. You pick the leaves and eat them. Add it to salads. Totally natural. Healthy. Yummy, too.
joe
The story on stevia is this: It is a “generally recognized as safe” natural product and may be included in any dietary supplement without restriction. It has NOT been approved for labeling as a food sweetener nor are we making that claim. The fact that Fit-a-Rita is free of artificaial sweetners as well as free of sugar and yet is still pleasantly sweet is just, shall we say, a happy coincidence.
Okay, I’m going to take a brief break from being snarky and come out in favor of stevia.
All of the research I’ve read on it indicates that if it *were* allowed to be used as a sweetener in the US (as it is in many other countries), it would be a much healthier alternative than sugar and artificial sweeteners. Besides having zero calories, it has a zero glycemic index. It doesn’t seem to play havoc on insulin levels the way sugar does, and it doesn’t create cravings for more sweets the way aspartame and sucralose often can.
Just speculating here, but… Any issues the FDA has had with stevia have more than likely been related to lobbying from the sugar and artificial-sweetener industries.
I don’t drink alcohol, so having a healthy margarita isn’t an issue for me, but I really do wish my favorite “energy drinks” contained stevia instead of “high fructose corn syrup.” How ’bout it, Jeff and Joe? An “energy drink” that is actually healthy and tastes good? Red Bull *doesn’t* taste good, but some of the Jones Energy Drinks are okay. (Oh, and do keep the caffeine; that’s the only recreational drug I do.)
Like I told Jeff, you can name the drink Blue Girl, after me. 🙂
PS – This comment has not been evaluated by the FDA, and is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any illness, ailment, or disease. If you have, or suspect you have, a health problem, please see a physician or other qualified health care practitioner.
I have had the pleasure of trying a sample of Fit-A-Rita
Small Packet..easy to use…mixes very quick
…and TASTES GREAT!
Now some might think i am biased ( and i am :-):grin: )
However when you try it…you will know i tell the truth also
Mark J. Ryan
I love Stevia. I have a liquid in a bottle with a dropper and it only takes like one drop to sweeten a glass of tea!
Linda
Thanks for promoting a healthy life style. I think it is so important. Keep up the informative articles. Adrian
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MICHAL
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