Stevia Powder

Question: can white stevia powder be used to replace sugar in baking pies, cookies,puddings etc? I want to make a rhubarb pie using white stevia powder. can it be used in this manner and how much do i need to use to make a nine inch pie.

Answer: There are different types of stevia, but you can find a useful table here http://www.cookingwithstevia.com/web/chart.shtml

Question: Can I substitute Stevia powder (or honey) for sugar in oatmeal cookies? How would I do it? Or maybe honey? Does anyone have a recipe(s) for sweets w/o sugar like this? I don't like to use anything un-natural such as splenda. Thanks!

Answer: The only way you are going to know is if you try. I would try the honey before the Stevia.

Question: what is the dose of dried stevia leaves powder in dosage form ? Stevia is plant that is used for diabetes and high blood pressure and which 100 times more than sugar having zero calorie and no side effects.

Answer: Just 4 leaves of fresh stevia are equallent to one tsp. sugar and when dried they reduce to 1/4th (ratio becomes 4:1) A quarter tsp. is enough for a 6 oz. cup of tea.

Question: Does anyone have any good dessert recipes using stevia concentrate powder?

Answer: I've never heard of this stuff myself, but found this website - http://www.steviva.com/recipes/

Question: does green stevia powder stimulate the release of dopamine?

Answer: If yes than not significant: Stevia leaves and powder prepared out of them contain various glycosides including stevoside. Stevoside is a natural sweetener. It is a diterpenic carboxylic alcohol with three glucose molecules "Serum dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine levels were not changed significantly 60 min after intravenous injection of stevioside 100 mg/kg in anesthetized SHR." ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9806223 ) "They found no significant changes in serum dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine levels 60 min after intravenous injection of stevioside 100 mg/kg in ....." (http://www.zhion.com/diabetes/STEVIA.html)

Question: what is Nustevia white stevia powder? It says dietary supplement and to use in your favorite food or beverage but can anyone tell me more about it?

Answer: Stevia is a plant that is used as a natural sugar replacement. AFAIK, it is not a supplement. Add: if used in place of sugar, then it is a substitute, NOT a supplement!

Question: What is the equivalence of honey to sugar? What is the equivalence or stevia powder to sugar? Anybody know? What I mean is the "sweetness" equivalencies. Like, how much honey do I use in a recipe to equal the sweetness the same amount of honey. For example, if a recipe tells me I need 1 cup of sugar & I choose to use honey instead, how much honey do I use to equal the sweetness of the cup of sugar called for? Can you give me a little chart that I can refer to whenever I want to substitute one for the other? Also, the same thing goes for stevia powder compared to sugar. Can you give me a little equivalencie chart? What I mean is the "sweetness" equivalencies. Like, how much honey do I use in a recipe to equal the sweetness the same amount of sugar. For example, if a recipe tells me I need 1 cup of sugar & I choose to use honey instead, how much honey do I use to equal the sweetness of the cup of sugar called for? Can you give me a little chart that I can refer to whenever I want to substitute one for the other? Also, the same thing goes for stevia powder compared to sugar. Can you give me a little equivalencie chart? What I mean is the "sweetness" equivalencies. Like, how much honey do I use in a recipe to equal the sweetness of the same amount of sugar required in a recipe being referred to. For example, if a recipe tells me I need 1 cup of sugar & I choose to use honey instead, how much honey do I use to equal the sweetness of the cup of sugar called for? Can you give me a little chart that I can refer to whenever I want to substitute one for the other? Also, the same thing goes for stevia powder compared to sugar. Can you give me a little equivalencie chart? I know plenty about stevia. Need equivalency info. Need to know for sure- not probably. Thanks so much! :D

Answer: probably you can use the same amount of sugar and honey and vice versa,however with stevia everything changes ,simply because stevia is more concentraded ,probably as 300 times than sugar,here is condense article ,and more information in the links source bar; As a sweetener, stevia's sweet taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or liquorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations.With its extracts having up to 300 times the sweetness of sugar, stevia has garnered attention with the rise in demand for low-carbohydrate, low-sugar food alternatives. Stevia also has shown promise in medical research for treating such conditions as obesity and high blood pressure Stevia has negligible effect on blood glucose, therefore it is attractive as a natural sweetener to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets. However, health and political controversies have limited stevia's availablility in many countries; for example, the United States banned it in the early 1990s. Stevia is widely used as a sweetener in Japan, and it is now available in the US and Canada as a dietary supplement, although not as a food additive. 250x sweetness (by weight) the herbal sweetener stevia Steviol glycosides Main article: Steviol glycoside These sweet glycosides found in the stevia plant Stevia rebaudiana bertoni have 40-300 times the sweetness of sucrose. The two primary glycosides, stevioside and rebaudioside A, are used as natural sweeteners in many countries. These glycosides have steviol as the aglycone part. Glucose or rhamnose-glucose combinations are bound to the ends of the aglycone to form the different compounds

Question: Which stores sell Stevia sweetener powder at a low price? or are there better priced products online?

Answer: Try Sams. They are the cheapest that I have found.

Question: Stevia powder in my cup of tea? I recently bought a packet of Stevia powder online to try as a sweetner. When the packet came it was a a sort of green powder. So I added a small amount to my usual tea with milk and stirred. After doing this there were lot's of green flecks in my tea floating on the top and when I tasted it it wasn't very nice at all infact it tasted a lot like regular artificial sweetners which I hate. I am quite dissapointed as I was really hoping to wean myself off sugar and thought this might help but it seems nothing really tastes like sugar but sugar. Have you any advice? Did I get the wrong kind or am I using it wrong? Thanks!

Answer: Hi! I agree the powder is horrible. The liquid form of stevia tastes great in liquid. Sweet leaf brand. Have a sweet day! I know .....I am addicted to sugar....it's tough.

Question: how could i make white stevia powder? i would like to know about the processing of white stevia poeder from stevia leaf

Answer: Stevia (also called sweetleaf, sweet leaf or sugarleaf) is a genus of about 150 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical South America and Central America. As a sweetener, stevia's sweet taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or liquorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations. The plant's leaves by the aqueous extract of the leaves, Chemists "isolated the glycosides" that give stevia its sweet taste. These extracts were named stevioside and rebaudioside. These compounds are 250–300 times sweeter than sucrose (ordinary table sugar), heat stable, pH stable, and non-fermentable.

Question: Where can I find Stevia powder? I know I read where you can add to oatmeal and make it sweeter when eating?

Answer: stevia is a natural sweetener, but it's VERY sweet so use it sparingly. you can find it at any health food store like whole foods. it also comes in liquid form too

Question: How is the new sweetener Truvia different from stevia.? I know Truvia is derived from stevia, but is it just regular stevia powder with a new brand name?

Answer: Stevia isn’t new. It’s been used for centuries as a sweetener in South America and is used Japan. But in the U.S., stevia was only able to be sold as a dietary supplement, not as a sweetener or a food additive because of FDA’s safety concerns. But that has changed Truvia, a new stevia product developed by Cargill and Coca-Cola. Truvia differs from current stevia products because it’s backed by extensive safety studies. Those studies, published in the advance online edition of Food and Chemical Toxicology, show no signs of the possible health issues -- such as blood pressure, blood sugar, and reproductive effects -- that have been noted in some, but not all stevia studies done mainly on animals. In the Cargill and Coca-Cola funded studies, Truvia didn’t affect blood pressure in healthy people or blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. Further tests in rats show no effects on reproduction, fertility, or other health problems. Truvia is in for some competition. Pepsi has its own stevia product in the works its own highly purified, zero-calorie, all-natural stevia sweetener -- which doesn’t have a name yet -- in various new products after it’s approved by the FDA A Seattle company called Zevia is marketing Zevia, a carbonated dietary supplement containing stevia. The company touts its product as "the world’s only all natural sugar-free alternative to diet soda." But Zevia hasn’t bucked the "dietary supplement" label. You can find the same product under lesser known brand names such as SweetLeaf and PrueVia

Question: Where can i find good organic stevia? I'm looking for some stevia powder that hasn't bin tampered with by companies to make it better or what ever. I'm looking for the good clean stuff.Any suggestions?

Answer: I bought mine at Trader Joe's.

Question: i am was just looking to buy stevia powder on ebay...a natural sugar replacement.? i notice some is white in colour and some green. whats the difference. is there any heath difference or taste difference one over the other. thanks for your attention

Answer: I've used it for years. It's great and natural. It's been used for centuries as a natural sweetener. I'd take my chances on the Stevia over any of the chemically synthesized offerings out there. Read the article below for some good info. The links on that site offer 1000 packs of Nu-Naturals brand for like $37 from Amazon with free shipping. I don't know if ebay is cheaper. The unrefined version is not as sweet, takes more for the same effect, and sometimes has a licorice taste to it. I prefer the white powder versions.

Question: what's the new sweetening product i see on TV that is made from the STEVIA plant? i dont know if its like sugar, xcept not, or what. it looked good. i use stevia powder, but it doesnt cook worth shit. lol.

Answer: Truvia

Question: Stevia powder with maltodextrin? does it have nay calories? hey guys! so.. i just bought a huge pack of Stevia natural sweetener packs of 1 gram each. However.. i just read the label in the back and it says 7 % Stevioside and 93% Maltodextrin. The label also says that per one gram, there are 0.9 grams of carbs.. but it says it has no calories! how is that possible!? and isnt Maltodextrin a carb aswell? i was hoping that this would be a 0 calorie sweetener because that's what it says it is, but how can that be if it is 93 % maltodextrin? are there really any calories in it!? please help

Answer: I hope this article will help! http://www.healthmad.com/Nutrition/The-Sweet-Life.571363 But I do believe that they round off the number of calories... if it's really 0.0001 calories, they are allowed to just say 0.