{"id":2741,"date":"2008-08-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/on-your-mark-get-set-stevia.html"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:40:38","slug":"on-your-mark-get-set-stevia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"On Your Mark, Get Set, Stevia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SJrdt5qLMzI\/AAAAAAAAAaE\/xix9U7vkdZE\/s1600-h\/SteviaPackage.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=1452018705  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231737697785819954\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SJrdt5qLMzI\/AAAAAAAAAaE\/xix9U7vkdZE\/s200\/SteviaPackage.jpg?w=735\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Here it comes, the next new thing. Stevia has been locked out of the U.S. sweetener market but, perhaps in a battle of the titans, the soda industry has opened a path for its entry.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Over the next few days, I&#8217;ll be highlighting the science, nutritional and political, behind the new emergence of what some are calling &#8220;The Holy Grail&#8221; of artificial sweeteners.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div><strong>For now, let&#8217;s just start with a definition:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Stevia is in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), and one of about 150 species of herbs and shrubs native to South and Central America. The species <em>Stevia rebaudiana <\/em>Bertoni itself is commonly known as sweetleaf, sweet leaf, sugarleaf, or just stevia and, as the name implies, is normally grown for its sweet leaves. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Taste charactaristics<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>As a sugar substitute, stevia&#8217;s taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar. If you have high concentrations of stevia, it will take on a bitter or licorice-like aftertaste. Some extraction methods can concentrate the sweetness up to 300 times that of sugar. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hence, stevia has won attention with the rise in demand for low-carbohydrate, low-sugar food processed food products. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it comes, the next new thing. Stevia has been locked out of the U.S. sweetener market but, perhaps in a battle of the titans, the soda industry has opened &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[371,311],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-artificial-sweetener","tag-stevia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-Id","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2740,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2740","url_meta":{"origin":2741,"position":0},"title":"Stevia History","author":"Will Clower","date":"August 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"For centuries, the Guaran\u00ed tribes of Paraguay and Brazil used a plant tthey called ka'a he'\u00ea (\"sweet herb\"), to sweeten medicinal teas for treating heartburn and other ailments. The leaves of the stevia plant have 30\u201345 times the sweetness of sucrose (ordinary table sugar).To prepare it in the traditional way,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"stevia\"","block_context":{"text":"stevia","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?tag=stevia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2530,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2530","url_meta":{"origin":2741,"position":1},"title":"Stevia the Holy Grail of Sweeteners?","author":"Will Clower","date":"July 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, Stevia is derived from a plant, but so was ephedra (ma huang) -- which contributed to heart valve problems.Yes it is GRAS (generally recognized as safe), but so is Aspartame. This article comes from a very food industry perspective. 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