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Growing Stevia;
Extracting Stevia;
Stevia's Forms
LET'S TRAVEL To PARAGUAY, For STEVIA'S HISTORY-GROWTH-TYPESHistory-Growth-Types discusses how stevia's history goes back to the 16th Century when Spanish colonizers landed in Paraguay.
Paraguay is located in the center of South America.
The colonizers noted the use of this sweet herb among the native Guarani tribes. They used it to sweeten beverages, make sweet snacks, and in their medicines.
[2]Wikipedia-Stevia
Stevia, also called: sweet leaf, sweetleaf, sugarleaf ... flourishes in the subtropical and tropical South American and Central American regions. There are also some species growing in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
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Growing Stevia
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In 1931 two chemists isolated chemical compounds of stevia. They discovered many properties such as: the compounds stevioside and rebaudioside are 300 times as sweet as sucrose (sugar), these compounds are also heat stable, pH stable, and non-fermentable.
[2]Wikipedia-Stevia
Since the discovery of this plant, it is now used in over 12 countries, with China being the largest exporter.
However, since 1991 stevia's safety as a food additive has been under persistant controversy.
Alanna and I blow the whistle on why this sweet, little shrub is being surrounded by all this controversy,
Stevia's Controversy
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In researching stevia's history-growth-types we find that a botonist, Moises Santiago Bertoni, journeyed to Paraguay. Moises was the first scientist to describe and document stevia's sweet taste.
