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sweetness so intense it dodges your bloodstream entirely, leaving sugar to take the calorie blame.
means A no-calorie sweetener extracted from the leaves of the South American plant Stevia rebaudiana, hundreds of times sweeter than sugar.
from Named after the plant genus Stevia, which honors the 16th-century Spanish botanist and physician Pedro Jaime Esteve, his surname Latinized into the scientific name. The sweet species itself, native to Paraguay and Brazil, was long used by the Guaraní people, who called the leaf ka'a he'ê — roughly 'sweet herb' — long before any European catalogued it.
- sweetness
- Up to 300 times sweeter than sugar.
- origins
- Used by Guarani people for centuries.
- calories
- Body cannot absorb the sweet compounds.
- plant family
- Related to sunflowers and ragweed.
- name
- Honors botanist Pedro Jaime Esteve.
truvia — cargill's stevia-based sweetener brand launched in 2008, now sold in over 100 countries
stevia rebaudiana — the specific plant species native to paraguay and brazil that produces steviol glycosides
pure via — pepsico and merisant's stevia sweetener brand approved by fda in 2008