Cooking with stevia: guideline to sugar free success

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Cooking with stevia can be a lot of fun. After all, you know you're doing something healthy, because you can see that not only are you working with an all natural product, you also need less of it. A lot less! In fact, less is certainly more when it comes to cooking or baking with stevia.

Be sure to take a look at the sugar to stevia conversion chart before you start on your journey. For most stevia recipes, just a simple conversion is enough, just replace the amount of sugar by the correct amount of stevia sweetener, and you're done!

Stevia recipe: Homemade Root Beer

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Ingredients
3 Tbsp. sarsaparilla root (about 1/2 ounce)
1 Tbsp. licorice root
1 qt. purified water
2-3 tsp. dried Stevia leaf  -OR-
3-4 Stevia teabags
2 qts. carbonated water

ProcedureSimmer the sarsaparilla and licorice root in the quart of water for about 45 minutes.  DO NOT BOIL -- it brings out bitter principles.  Add the Stevia leaf or teabags and simmer for 15 minutes longer.

Stevia Could Be Your Best Friend On Your Diet

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For all of you out there who love to sweeten up your favorite foods and drinks, you’re going to adore the brand new product around town. Unlike other low calorie sweeteners who just don’t seem to quite cut it, flavored stevia really has everything. So when you think about livening your next cup of tea or espresso, why not test swirling in the only true guilt-free sugar substitute around?

While Stevia Products are fairly new within the U.S., they’re common in numerous parts of the globe. Those in South and Central America are already experiencing the benefits associated with Stevia for years and years. Derived from the plant situated in that region, the Stevia sweetener is as natural as it gets. In reality, health conscientious Japan claimed Stevia Products as a favorite for decades.

The impact of stevia in 2012

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As the stands were dismantled in December on the largest Fi Europe exhibition ever to have taken place in the event’s 25-​year history, companies were already actively hatching their launch plans for early2012 for the first products naturally sweetened with stevia to be introduced in Europe.

Steviol glycosides (or stevia) received final approval for use in Europe following the formal adoption of the European Commission’s Regulation in November. This opens the floodgates to ‘natural’ product launches and relaunches during 2012 as stevia extracts, already used in the US, Latin America and France among other markets, can now be formulated in a wide range of products such as yogurts, cereals, beverages, soft drinks, confectionery, chocolate and tabletop sweeteners in Europe.