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Stevia is produced from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana, which is native to South America. There, humans have used it for centuries because of its extraordinary sweetness. The stevia sweetener is made from the steviol glycosides obtained from the stevia plant, with the sweetening power of the leaves mainly stemming from two […]
The World Health Organization gives dire warnings. Doctors try to raise awareness among their patients. Even the media are using increasingly drastic imagery. While the World Health Organization recommends 25 g of sugar per day, Germans consume about 90 to 100 g on average. High time to question our sugar intake. Is it possible to […]
The sweetener stevia – also known as candyleaf, sugarleaf or sweetleaf – is a plant from the stevia family. Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni was discovered and researched by Swiss botanist Moisés Bertoni and Ovidio Rebaudi, a chemist from Buenos Aires, who gave the stevia plant its full name. The indigenous people of Paraguay called the plant […]