stevia
IPA: stˈiviʌ
noun
- Any of the sweet herbs of genus Stevia, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America and western North America.
- A sweetener, many times sweeter than an equal amount of sugar, extracted from Stevia rebaudiana, that can be substituted for sugar for some purposes.
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Examples of "stevia" in Sentences
- Saccharin or Stevia may be used.
- Recipes for stevia can be found online.
- This Quinn has nothing to do with Stevia.
- Stevia is not a genetically modified organism.
- It is a legitimate addition to the stevia page.
- This was exactly the case with stevia for awhile.
- Please permit that link to exist as a reference on stevia.
- Planting cloned stevia is a more effective method of reproduction.
- The sweetener called stevia, which is increasingly being used, comes from a shrub found in Paraguay, South America.
- Using egg whites and the natural sugar alternative known as stevia, I was able to bake up cakes with the proper taste.
- And the leaves of a South American plant commonly known as stevia, Stevia rebaudiana, have been used for centuries in its homeland to sweeten maté tea.
- In consumer communications, all sweet extracts should be referred to as stevia, rather than the numerous scientific names (such as rebaudioside, reb A, steviol glycosides).
- "I had no idea what it was," Fukushima — who at the time was chef de cuisine at Jose Andres' cutting edge minibar restaurant — said of finding what turned out to be the herb known as stevia.
- "It's hard to know whether stevia is safe or not, as research is minimal," says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University, who argues that it may be a stretch to call stevia products "natural".
- Last year, technological improvements to an all-natural zero-calorie sweetener derived from a plant called stevia allowed Pepsi to devise several fast-growing brands, including Trop50, a variation on its Tropicana orange juice that has half the calories of the breakfast standby.