HERB - stevia

[Mary Temple]

I'm still looking for the "Nutritional" information on stevia - does it have 
calories like sucrose, dextrose, honey, fructose, et al, and so raise the 
blood sugar, or, is it a "non-caloric" sweetener like aspartame, saccharin, 
etc. Anyone have any suggestions?

Lady Katerine Rowley
Bryn Gwlad, Ansteorra
mka
Mary K. Temple
Austin, Texas

>Magdelena wrote:
>>I thought about sweetening at the end with stevia, but I can't find
>>whole stevia
>>commercially,
>
>Here are some suggestions for places to look that I've found.
>
>- online (we have list members who sell it for their mundane biz)
>- health food stores
>- asian markets
>
>The last one seems a little off, but about 50% of sweetened things
>in Japan use stevia, not sugar.
>
>>and introducing powdered herbs at the end would give me a clouded
>>wine.
>
>I have a jar of the tincture in my desk here at work. The labels reads:
>
>   Now Foods, Stevia Liquid Extract, Net 2 fluid oz, An Herbal Dietary
>   Supplement
>
>The bottle is about the size of a bottle of ibuprofen, comes with a
>dropper, and cost me about $10 US. I've had the bottle for a LONG
>time.
>
>Jasmine
>iasmin de cordoba, gwalli at infoengine.com
>
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