CS>Re: Sugar was // Re: bladder,

[Sara Mandal-Joy]

Many health food stores don't bother to carry the green/brown leaves or 
powder.  It has a licorice taste, and is harder to use in 
cooking/baking, though it is often a perfect addition to a cup of tea.  
I get mine from vitaglo, NOW brand.  Fairly inexpensive, certainly so 
compared to the cost of the processed stuff.   I'm sure you can get it 
bulk as well from a variety of herbal folks online.  Important thing is 
you're looking for something described as brown and/or green, and speaks 
of the leaves or powdered leaves, rather than "extract".  And for those 
looking for the white/processed extract, make SURE it is pure stevia, or 
at least that you are comfortable with the other ingredients.   Some 
folks use erythritol (an alcohol sugar, used in any amount will give you 
the runs); most use maltodextrin - which to me is a poison.    
particularly if the brand of "stevia" you are using says it is measures 
like sugar, you are looking at something that is only slightly stevia.  
Pure processed stevia extract has a sugar equivalency of one teaspoon 
stevia= one cup of sugar.   Sara
What's a good source of the "real stevia"?
Olushola
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Sara Mandal-Joy <smjl...@wavewls.com 
<mailto:smjl...@wavewls.com>> wrote:

    ... BUT "real" stevia, the whole leaf or powdered green/brown hard
    to dissolve stevia - this is used as a pancreatic tonic, doesn't
    have the same insulin boost, as the whole herb mediates the
    oversweet sensation, and does moderate blood glucose levels.  In
    South America it is used as a primary treatment for diabetes.