Nectresse Natural No Calorie Sweetener

This post brought to you by NECTRESSE™Sweetener. All opinions are 100% mine.

Being diabetic, I am always looking for an alternative to sugar.  However, most sugar alternatives leave a horrible taste in your mouth, making you not want to eat anything with it.  Or they are WAY too sweet…and not in a good way!  Recently I was asked to try NECTRESSE™Sweetener and I was really excited!  I had never heard of this sweetener before.

Nectresse sweetener is made from monk fruit extract, which if you have never heard of monk fruit (which I haven’t before this), it is a green melon that grows in the mountains in Asia!  Now the nice thing about this sweetener is that it is 100% all natural and it has zero calories!  You have to like that!

Nectresse Sweetener is made by the makers of Splenda and it comes in two options,  individual packets (and one packet is equal to two teaspoons) or in a canister so you can scoop out what you need for your recipe.  Since I had a bunch of really ripe bananas laying around, I decided to make my amazing banana muffins using Nectresse Sweetener in place of sugar.  Since I was sent the individual packets for this review, I needed to use 18 packets…Bella had a great time tearing them open for me!  Here is the recipe I used:

The Best Banana Muffins Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 Ripe Bananas, mashed
• 1/3 cup Butter, melted
• 1 Egg
• Dash of Vanilla
• 3/4 cup White Sugar (I used Nectresse instead)
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 1/2 cups Flour

Steps:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line or spray muffin tins
2. Combine all of the wet ingredients and the sugar and mix well.
3. Fold in the dry ingredients, mixing completely with a large spoon.
4. Fill each muffin liner 3/4 of the way full
5. Bake for 25-30 minutes (I bake mine for 28 minutes, but your oven may vary)

Don’t they look delicious?!?  The two rows at the top of the picture were made with real sugar and the two rows at the bottom of the picture are the banana muffins that were made with Nectresse.  Now I have to admit, I liked my banana muffins just the way they were before, but with Nectresse they tasted really good and had I not known that I used something different, I would never have been able to tell!  The real test was to give them to my kids.  Neither child could tell the difference (and I make banana muffins every week)!

If you don’t believe me, listen to what Lisa Ling has to say about Nectresse Sweetener:

Still skeptical?  Try it out for yourself by using this link to get a FREE sample of NECTRESSE™Sweetener!  Let me know what you think!