The Science of All-Natural Stevia Sweetener
Many people are just starting to hear about stevia, but it has been of interest to those in the west since the nineteenth century. The plant first caught the interest of people in Brazil who heard of a plant in South America with leaves so sweet that they would sweeten a whole gourd full […]
Stevia Leaf - Too Good To Be Legal?
by Rob McCaleb, Herb Research Foundation
For hundreds of years, people in Paraguay and Brazil have used a sweet leaf to sweeten bitter herbal teas including mate. For nearly 20 years, Japanese consumers by the millions have used extracts of the same plant as a safe, natural, non-caloric sweetener. The plant is stevia, formally […]