Side by Side Comparison of: Equal vs bai

i've replaced my creamer and sugar in my coffee and my sugar and honey in my tea with this and i am very happy i did. originally i was trying to cut out some calories but it really tastes great and i actually prefer it over sugar in my tea! for my coffee i use way less of this than i did with sugar and it tastes even better. glad i tried it out because i am really happy with it and you get a LOT for the price, it'll definitely be lasting me awhile

I got started on equal. I use the generic brand of Equal but it's got more expensive (popularity-supply and demand) than Equal. This is a great value for the money and I love the product....even tho' everybody says it's going to kill me. They said that about MSG in the mid 80s. NOT. I am 70 and no stuff going on inside. I get blood/urine checks every 4 months.Besides 70 is a great age to live (not that I have any stupid thoughts). At least the Bible says it is.I don't have diabetes and almost everyone I know as it or something like it and they all struggle with morbid obesity.

Great price for this item! We normally pay $8-$10 locally for about 200 packages, so getting 800 packages here for $15 was an excellent buy! My roommate tried them and said they were just as fresh and delicious as what we were getting locally but half the price.Will purchase again as we go through a lot of Nutrasweet.

Be sure that you have room in your kitchen cabinet for this box of Equal, because it's quite large! There's enough Equal in here to probably last 400 days. I calculated this by dividing the total number of equal packets (800) by the quantity that I use per day (2). 800 ÷ 2 = 400 days! That's one year and 35 days! So around February 2017 I'll be ordering up a replacement box of these bad-boys.I like equal a lot. It's better than sugar and can add the perfect amount to my tea to get optimal sweetness. I highly recommend it!

Tastes great, I usually use natrataste which is the cheaper, less strong off brand of equal. At this price it is worth buying the equal since I can use one and a half packets instead of two for the same sweetness. I usually pay $4.50 for 250 of the natrataste so 800 would cost $14.40. At the time of this review 800 equal cost $11.63. Equal does have a shelf life so buying more than you can use by best date is risky. Hope this helps.

I drink a lot of coffee--about 6 cups a day. I like my coffee blonde and sweet but as much coffee as I drink that is a lot of granulated sugar to be drinking every day. I need to loose some weight as I have gained a lot in my senior years, so I decided to cut down on sugar everywhere that I can. So now I use Equal in my coffee and on my breakfast oatmeal instead of sugar. I use to use Equal back in the 1970s and don't know why I quit using it. I will continue to use Equal but I won't be buying it from Amazon any more. This box was delivered just as you see it--not put into another box and the box of Equal's corners were damaged during the shipping. The reason for the 5 stars is because I can't complain about the product and this review is just suppose to be a review of the product itself and not a rating for the seller.

All of the Bai drinks are good and these are no exception. Great flavors, not overly syrupy like other sodas and just the right amount of caffeine.

Love these drinks

Tastes great.

taste was good

Love them

Grapefruit is by far my favorite Bai flavor!!

works for me

was alright; i prefer Splenda, but this does the job.

We like Equal for coffee, baking, and any other application where sugar is needed as I am diabetic and it works fine for me, and tastes good. I have tried other substitutes and this one, in my opinion, is the best

I like my tea sweet, so I use Equal. So far, it's my favorite artificial sweetener. I just wish these were cheaper. I find that ALL artificial sweeteners over sell the sweetness of their products. Each package is supposed to be equal to two teaspoons of sugar. Not so. I don't even think it's equal to one teaspoon of sugar. But all these artificial sweeteners say the same thing. It's better than most, I think.

I love the blue color and I love the Equal brand. Not much to review since most people who use artificial sweetener are familiar with it at restaurants. The box is huge and will last me awhile. I thought the price is a bit high like it is in the stores, always higher than Sweet 'n Low for some reason, but not as high as Splenda and a couple others. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the price, even in higher volume of 800 packets.

I use equal and splenda. Equal less expensive and good for non-cooking.Splenda better for cookng.One packet of equal sweeter than one packet of splenda.

Still expensive but not as much as grocery outlets. Finally a soda that I can have and relatives won't take. They do not seem to like them! Huh!Oh well more for me.

good

Good cold bad warm.

Love the Black Cherry. Don't really like the other flavors much.

Took some time to adjust to this coming off of a mild Dr. Pepper addiction but I can say I generally enjoy these now. I just wish I could change up and choose the flavors in the variety pack, I'm not really into the blood orange flavor.

Bai beverages are so refreshing. I have tried all the flavors but was unable to find "pear" so I ordered it through Amazon. I received a 12-count case of "Indonesia Nashi Pear" Bubbles. I did not love it like the other flavors. Then as luck would have it I saw a single can of non-carbonated "Congo Pear" in Publix and grabbed it. This one I am in love with. It has the juicy flavor of an Anjou pear and it is now in the carbonated flavors. Perhaps Bai realized that the Indonesia Nashi Pear wasn't quite up to their standards. I will be ordering the Congo Pear from now on since we are in a rather small town.

I love this product but gave it only 3 stars, as the package was unprotected when I received it, and there were packets all over my front stoop. Not a single strip of tape to cover the open-fold of the bottom of the box. However, equal itself tastes just fine.

Not great taste

Always a great way to get sweetener at a reduced rate than buying at the store. My wife and I have come to the conclusion however that Wal-Mart generic brand only requires half the sweetener to get the same flavor. So, price for quantity and quality are less than desirable.

Expensive.

looks and works like it should!(what I ordered)

if you need a sweetener,its ok!

So personally I really like the taste, it does remind me of root beer, BUT every single can I open it sprays and bubbles all over regardless of whether I let is sit for some time or not. It makes a mess so be aware :)

Not a fan. Very fake tasting and almost taste like they should be alcoholic drinks. I was really looking forward to these satisfying my soda cravings

I prefer the other favors, but these favors is definitely something you got to get use too. I gave it 3 stars because I am in the middle about the taste.

I love the drink. However the packaging was terrible. The 12 pack arrived in a small box and the air packages were all deflated. Further, half of the cans were dented and could not be opened. Probably won't buy again unless I can find them in a grocery store.

Not my favorite. Many a different flavor would have been a better choice. I still really like this brand and will continue to buy other products just never ever this one again. Way to tart - yes I know it is grapefruit flavor but this grapefruit on overdrive

I thought I would like the fizzy drink better than the regular kind but I was wrong. It doesn't give the same zing and it actually brings out the flavor of the alternative sweetener that I don't like At All. So I am buying the non fizz Bai5, it tastes great and gives an energy boost.

I have been using equal for over 20 years. Now they have changed the ingredients. Besides aspartame there is a lot of other ingredients I don't recognize. The Taste is different the sweetness is not as sweet and when I open a pack the sugar sweetener is brown instead of white. Don't like this new formula.

Comes in the package box alone. Handled and broken open.

Some of the packets were light in weight or contain no sweetner. This is equal sweeter as far as I can tell.

getting too expensive. getting wal-mart great value brand. same stuff about half the cost. 2.08 per 250 packs. 10.40 for 1000. equal is 16 bucks for 800.

This IS NOT the Clasic equal that the pic shows. It is the ORIGINAL.

I was surprised at the contents of this box. Many of the individual packets have little or nothing in them. I'm not sure what happened but I hope it was just a fluke.

Very disappointing. All these flavors have a bad aftertaste. The worst flavor is pineapple.

you ruined this product by adding stevia. that bitterness and after taste just make this a product i will not use.

Okay... This may be just me, but I do not enjoy the flavor of this stuff... My friend, however, likes it so he drank the rest of them. Either way, it just left a nasty flavor in my mouth that I couldn't overcome.It's worth a shot if you haven't tried it! Who knows, maybe you'll like it!

Some of the drink flavors taste like medicine. ESPECIALLY the Cherry one. The only drink worth having is the grapefruit drink, and I'm a person that hates grapefruit. It was surprisingly good.

good product presentation and packaging. Did not like the taste - too artificial and bitter

I love Sparkling Bai. Fresh, unusual flavors! I usually get it at Costco, but can't always find it there. Last Amazon case was flat...not sure if it's the summer heat or what.

uncomfortable, i have high arch

I just opened the box that looks used. Some of the packets looked like coffee was already spilled on them. The box smelled like window cleaner.

I use a lot of equal. I like Aspartame. My experience with Aspartame is that its sweetness diminishes over time, esp if exposed to heat. I had heard reports that some sellers sell "stale" Equal that has little sweetening power left. I believe that is what I got in my last purchase here. I have to use 40% more to get the same sweetness in my morning coffee, long time routine. Box says Best if Used by Oct2018, but it's sweetening power has already dropped dramatically. My GF agrees. She puts it in her diet tonic water to juice it up a bit. Not sure how one avoids getting weak Equal online. First time for me.

It was not the individual packets, it was boxes of sugar. Very disappointed.

Problem -at least half of the packets covered in watermarks and the equal inside the packet is stiff, hard as a rock and unusable. I'd like a refund. I havent had this problem before, but stiff watermarked equal is disgusting.

The worst sweetener I have ever purchased. It takes twice the amount of other brands to properly sweeten drinks.

Jumped triple in price... love this stuff but no thanks

Not good root beer taste, very disappointed. Bubbles good but didn't taste good initially

Zilich bubbles, medicinal or rather nauseating fore and after-taste. I truly wanted to give this product a chance but my taste buds refused to accept the terrible carnival of weird so called 'fruity' flavours or lack of them. Do yourself a favor and invest in fresh fruit add some carbonated water and drink pure anti-oxidants. This was a terrible experience..never again.

My fav was sour apple and they no longer include it. Won't be ordering this again.

Had such high hopes after reading reviews. I find the aftertaste very bitter and unpleasant. Like a diet soda only worse. This was an expensive and disappointing experiment. Won't be back.

Sorry just didn't like the flavor.