Stevia Leaf (Stevia rebaudiana) is widely grown for its sweet leaves. As a sweetener & sugar substitute, stevia’s taste has a slower onset & longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or liquorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations. It is also known as Honey Leaf Plant, Sweet Chrysanthemum, Sweetleaf Stevia, & Sugarleaf. 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 is a genus of about 240 species of herbs & shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical & tropical regions from western North America to South America but now grown all over the world where the conditions are suitable.. History of Stevia Leaf: - For centuries, the Guaran tribes of Paraguay, Bolivia & Brazil used stevia, which they called ka’a he’ (sweet herb), as a sweetener in yerba mate & medicinal teas. stevia Leaf - Cut Or Powdered Rebaudiana
