Wow, it is amazing how fast a week can fly by! We are already on our second episode of Flavor Friday! Today Callie discusses our Stevia Natural Sweetener. When we were launching our Snowie Natural line, we would often get asked, “If the concentrate is natural, how are you sweetening it?” When we would answer, “Sugar” there was always a moment of confusion. It is interesting, sugar has gained such a bad reputation lately that people have come to assume it is an unnatural or artificial product. It is not. There are, however, a million reasons why some people need to avoid sugar, it may be as simple as eating habits or more serious health concerns like Diabetes. So, with the these things in mind, Callie went on a quest to create the best Stevia Shaved Ice product available. You might think that it was as simple as going to the store, buying a pack of Stevia, adding water, and BAM! Unfortunately this was not the case. Stevia can actually have a bitter after-taste or it can taste like menthol which, as you can imagine, would change the taste of everything you mix it with. So, it wasn’t simply trying to get it to act like a syrup, it was a quest to have it actually taste good. This process went on for quite a while and we started hinting that we were close to releasing a Stevia product. We were shocked at how many people then began to inquire daily concerning our progress with this product. Then she did it. After many taste tests she brought us a concoction that tasted so close to sugar, we could not tell the difference. This was a big deal and a big accomplishment, and it satisfied a very anxious and necessary demand. We have now created it into a powder form so you can pour it into your container, add water, and (now you can say it…) BAM! You have a sugar free, all natural sweetener, that has the texture of shaved ice syrup. We have a couple packs that will either allow you to make a quart at a time, which is not preserved and will last for 2-3 weeks in the fridge, or you can purchase a larger pack that contains an already preserved powder and will create a 5 gallon jug of natural, sugar free, simple shaved ice syrup. This larger pack will last you one year with or without refrigeration. Callie also discussed how she used this product at an event called the Utah Arts Festival. This is one of the larger events held in downtown Salt Lake City, and she was able to secure this event because we now offered our new Snowie Natural Shaved Ice Flavors. Seeing how this crowd and this event was the perfect setting to offer a Stevia option, Callie setup two flavor stations in front of her stand. One that contained natural shaved ice syrups sweetened with sugar, and another that was sugar free, sweetened by our Snowie Stevia option. She would then speak with people after they went to the stevia flavor station to see if they liked it. None of them could tell a difference between our regular shaved ice flavors and the new stevia option. It is one thing to get that response from us at Snowie, it is a wonderful response to receive from customers themselves. Try Stevia in your stand and watch your customers react to this delicious, natural, sugar alternative. https://snowie.com/product/stevia-nat…

Wow, it is amazing how fast a week can fly by! We are already on our second episode of Flavor Friday! Today Callie discusses our Stevia Natural Sweetener. When we […]