Cooking Tips for Stevia
November 20th, 2009 admin
If you are watching your weight or you are a diabetic patient, you are most likely to prepare your foods with Stevia. Stevia is a natural sweetener perfect for diabetic patients. It has proven to have zero calories and zero carbohydrates that diabetic patients watch for. Added carbohydrates in a diabetic patient’s diet can endanger their life in an instance. It has no glycemic effect, according to the glycemic index. Another important aspect of this sweetener is it has no side effects compare to other sugar substitutes such bas aspartame and sucralose. Other sweeteners have harmful side effects.
There are variety of forms you can choose from such as leaves, liquid extract and powder. It includes essential enzymes that are good for your health. You can enjoy desserts even if you are diabetic patients. This natural sweetener can be mix to make your favorite desserts. The Stevia sweeteners will not granulize unlike other regular sugar available in the market. You shouldn’t deprive yourself by not eating any sweets at all. You can create desserts like meringue and burnt crème. You may also bake some healthy cookies and cupcakes using Stevia.
You can notice some licorice or mint after taste but it depends upon the mixture of ingredients and the level of the product into the food. Stevia liquid extract is the most appropriate to mix with other recipes among the other forma of Stevia. You may also mix Stevia extract to juices and puree fresh juice to have a more distinct taste.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm yoda Says:
Only pure, natural stevia can have these effects. Most stevia companies extract their product with ethanol, methanol, solvents, enzymes, or a combo of these, which can result in that weird afertaste. Most also blend their stevia with alcohol sugars, dextrose, malto-dextrin, or a combo of them. Reasonably, this results in a stevia product that falls short of its natural medicinal properties. The great benefits of natural stevia is thus negated, or at least, reduced. With these additives how can their product retain the calorie, carb free, 0 glycemic index peoperties?
SweetLeaf Sweetener is the only one wherin only pure water touches the leaves during the entire extraction process. Others may have you believe that it’s the leaf that causes the aftertaste, but I don’t think they are being completely honest. SweetLeaf extracts using only water from the highest qulaity leaves and they have never felt that they have a problem with an aftertaste, as others have, who are now adding masking agents to their product to cover up the taste. All this makes SweetLeaf the only truly all-natural stevia brand on the market that retains the natural stevia properties, 0 calories, 0 carbs, and a 0 glycemic index, along the many other health benefits of pure stevia.
Buyer beware.