Hope it's OK Luna. Stevia is supposed to be so much better than the others. I think it's available at Health Food Stores now. Stuff that starts with apart----- gives me a good stomachache! Gotten some emails about the dangers of it too! I always check the MY Page thing but she still could be some kind of business so not supposed to get free advertising. Jan

No offense taken. I saw this on Garden Junk last night and it looked just like email spam. I searched Truvia on GW and found it had been posted on 5 forums. Some posters on the other threads also expressed that it is spam. When I went to the survey link, a page comes up with an IVillage header, but another marketing company, Insight Express, LLC, underneath. Google took me to several of their sites, where I found nothing to convince me that they're affiliated with GW. When I went to Tamara's email link, I googled it. All that came up were a few other posts of hers that also smack of spam, and one thread on the Antiques forum where they were saying that complaining to GW did not seem to get it removed. When I search for her on GW, I don't find her info anywhere. The only place I can get it to come up is on her own links, some with links to GW. That's a red flag to me. You'd have to be brighter than me to figure out how to give the appearance of being part of GW, but marketers can easily get around that stuff. One thing I can't explain is why GW hasn't either removed the posts, or at least posted an explanation of why it should stay or announce that they will allow this kind of stuff on the forums. I'm just one of those people who has no tolerance for spam, and don't like to see people taken advantage of by marketers who have made an art of it. Linda Here is a link that might be useful: Googled Tamara's Email

What the heck does this have to do with a bathroom forum? Oh wait...maybe it's like mannitol or sorbitol where if you eat too much of it, it has a laxative effect and you then wind up in the bathroom.

I got mine Mon and tried it in coffee. I'm a sugar user, and found it was pretty good, but not quite sugar. I imagine those who use other 'artificial' stuff might really like it though. I wonder if in time they will use it in making diet pop which I don't drink now because I don't care for it. Were they offering free coupons? It was a gwannouncements post. They sent a box of 40 packets. Each packet is equal in sweetness to 2 ts of sugar. Their site says Truvia is a natural sweetener. hth. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: Free Sample of Truvia