{"id":974,"date":"2018-02-20T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elisorganic.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:16:42","slug":"stevia-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/stevia-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevia Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Stevia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stevia is a herb, perhaps unique among food ingredients because it&#8217;s most valued, it doesn&#8217;t add calories.The stevia plant is part of the Asteraceae family, related to the daisy and ragweed. There are several stevia species called originally from South America, mainly Brazil and Paraguay though it now grows throughout the world<\/p>\n<div id=\"m-in-article-1\">\u00a0It is naturally very sweet and considered 100 to 200 times sweeter than sugar, but\u00a0it doesn\u2019t raise blood sugar levels like sugar and other artificial sweeteners do.<\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, while stevia leaf (in fresh or dried form), is a natural herbal sweetener, many modern forms of stevia-based sweeteners are powdered and processed.\u00a0In fact, popular powdered stevia sweeteners go through dozens of steps during processing from bleaching to chemical alteration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of raw natural Stevia leaves or extract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1006\" src=\"http:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-plant.jpg\" alt=\"stevia plant\" width=\"312\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-plant.jpg 640w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-plant-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1005\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" src=\"http:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-drops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-drops.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-drops-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-drops-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-drops-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-drops-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-drops-540x540.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anticancer Abilities &#8211; especially breast cancer reduction<\/li>\n<li>Stevia instead of white sugar can be extremely helpful to diabetics<\/li>\n<li>Helps Weight Loss &#8211; plant-based &#8211; cero calories<\/li>\n<li>Improves Cholesterol levels &#8211; it decreases elevated serum cholesterol levels including\u00a0triglycerides and LDL (\u201cbad cholesterol\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Lower High blood pressure &#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stevia process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004\" src=\"http:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-process.png\" alt=\"stevia process, proceso de la stevia\" width=\"795\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-process.png 795w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-process-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/stevia-process-768x191.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are three types of Stevia on the market:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Green Leaf Stevia ( the most natural and recommended) 30 -40 times sweeter than sugar and is the one with most benefits.<\/li>\n<li>Stevia Extracts &#8211; less bitter than stevia leaf &#8211; about 200 times sweeter than sugar<\/li>\n<li>Altered\/ Processed\/ Barely stevia- like &#8211; Truvia &#8211; 200 &#8211; 400 times sweeter than sugar. This is the worst Option, try to avoid it since its&#8217; side effects are mainly gastrointestinal problems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevia is a herb, perhaps unique among food ingredients because it&#8217;s most valued, it doesn&#8217;t add calories.The stevia plant is part of the Asteraceae family, related to the daisy and ragweed. There are several stevia species called originally from South America, mainly Brazil and Paraguay though it now grows throughout the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21,5,1],"tags":[160,159,157,158,156,155],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges","category-desserts","category-health","category-superfoods","tag-beneficios-de-la-stevia","tag-benfits-of-stevia","tag-que-es-stevia","tag-tipos-de-stevia","tag-types-of-stevia","tag-what-is-stevia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisorganic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}