Ever bite into the leaf of the stevia plant? Sweet, too sweet, kinda funky. I have it growing in my garden and it is super expensive in the health foos store (where they bleach it and God knows what else).
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curious what gives it that toxic chemical aspartame aftertaste, must be all the heavy processing they put it through
No doubt they bastardize it, and whatnot, but I’m telling you straight up it is weird sweet right in the leaf. That is why microdoses are the only way. I understand that as sweet as it is, it actually regulates blood sugar, instead of spiking it.
so curious to try it in its real form, every overprocessed sweetener tastes like death to me. it’s that aftertaste. seriously don’t know how anyone drinks diet sodas ever
raw honey only ✌️
It does have a weird chemical taste, but it comes from the plant like that. I roll with raw honey, but Hubs has THE DIABEETUS and the best tea sweetener for him is stevia. 300x sweeter than sugar, but actually great for blood sugar regulation.
Do you boil the leaves to extract the sweetener? Or how would you use the plant?
No boil. Dry the leaves and pulverize leaves in a mortar & pestle (the powder will be green). It only takes 1/32 of a tsp to sweeten 2 litres of tea, because we like vaguely sweet tea). In the business they call it a “donk”, and it is hard to find measuring spoons with that small measurement.
Did you start the stevia from seeds, or a seedling that had already started? My spouse uses stevia often, so I’d be interested in trying to grow some.
I got the plant from an herbalist. I daresay you could start from seed though. Although some plants will not do well from seed, I imagine you could find it easily enough. I will check when it flowers, and if it seeds, I will save some for you.