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Trish Mylet
Posted at:
January 26, 2025
This spring I purchased from Richters a plug tray of Aztec Sweet herb and love it. Recently I've heard of "Stevia (S. rebaudiana) and wonder if this is the same plant?No, stevia is quite different. Stevia is the source of non-caloric natural sweeteners. Originally from Paraguay in South America, it became popular in Japan in the early part of the 20th century and is now becoming popular elsewhere. The sweetener substances in stevia are steviosides, said to be hundreds of times sweeter than sugar. In the native form, stevia also contains bitter substances which have been partly removed by breeding less bitter strains and by developing extraction methods that selectively eliminate the bitter components.