Thank you for making this video. I like green stevia but carry packets of Purevia in my purse for on the go coffee. Is there a better source of "travel friendly" stevia?
Good info, but not all white stevia powders are the same. Stevita brand uses water - and nothing else - in its extraction process. And it uses 5% xylitol - a perfectly-safe sugar alcohol - as a bulking agent. I've never had any issues with Stevita. Now Truvia and PureVia? Those are faux stevia products which are 99% erythritol , with the rest of the products being a SINGLE stevioside - Rebiana/Reb-A - extracted using ethanol and/or methanol.
I have no qualms using Stevita. But good info, anyway
It's not green to begin with. The pure glucosides are white all along but dissolved in the green leaf tissues, they are separated from the leaf and when they are dried they take on a powder form. The extraction method is very very basic and no unhealthy chemicals need to be used. There's more than one way to extract them though, so if you're concerned ask how they do it before buying. Also keep in mind that other additives may be added to the finished product! Always check the contents.
WARNING STEVIA IS A MUTAGEN :WICH MUTATES OUR CELLS AS IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH THEM..STEVIA IS A HYBRID PLANT NOT WILD OR NATURAL STAY AWAY PLEASE..LOOK IT UP......!Hybrid plants are plants produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen of another.It's not natural plant found in nature it was created by this prosses.
it's green because of chlorophyl. the reason it's white is because it's rebiana, an extract from stevia which is extracted using hot water. by the time they end up with mostly rebiana there's no chlorophyl left from the leaves.
the process they use to make white stevia is very minimal and natural, people like you are using scare tactics.
instead you should be supporting anything that gets people off of sugar which is far worse than lightly processed stevia extract.
@jwallbanger You stated the white stevia is 'processed'. Please explain how all the health benefits that are found in Whole Leaf Green Stevia(besides the sweetness) are still intact in a white refined version? It is doubtful that the chlorophyll is the only thing missing from the refined stevia. There are synergistic benefits from 'Whole Leaf' products that you just can't get from processed extracts. Green Leaf Stevia has health benefits that processed white stevia doesn't. Truth isn't fear!
@SuedeHillsOrganic the main health benefit of stevia is that it's a near-zero calorie alternative to sugar. people don't eat it for it's nutrients, they eat it so they won't wreck their health with refined sugar consumption.
just about every packaged food is processed. dehydrating raw stevia is processing it. white stevia is rebiana, extracted mainly with hot water.
if you want to scare people off of anything it should be splenda, which is basically an insecticide, or other chemical sweetners.
@jwallbanger Why just add stevia to foods to make them sweet? If you're eating stevia anyways why not eat the whole leaf powder and get more health benefits?
@SuedeHillsOrganic because if you're looking for a healthy alternative to sugar you don't want to eat something that tastes like bittersweet cardboard, you want something that tastes as much like sugar as possible. white stevia tastes much less bitter than green stevia. hybrids like truvia are the best. i don't like the fact that it's made by coca cola, but it tastes much better than regular stevia.
like i said, the main health benefit i want is sweet w/o sugar, i'll eat vegetables for the rest.
@jwallbanger Have you ever tried Suede Hills Green Leaf Stevia powder? We cannot speak for green stevia grown in China or other parts of the world, but our Green Leaf Stevia does not taste like bittersweet cardboard! I encourage you to try our Green Leaf Stevia and taste for yourself!
@SuedeHillsOrganic HA! I should have known you were setting me up to plug your product. That's just good business, right?
Yes, the level of bitterness and off-flavors varies by the product, but no whole herb stevia makes a good all-purpose replacement for sugar in my experience. For certain things, like tea for instance it's pretty good, and things with strong flavors
I prefer white stevia for general use.
Good luck with your business. You might try in-store demos at healthy grocery stores.
@jwallbanger WHITE STEVIA POWDER is overprossed and essentially becomes a chemical when it's made white. some white Stevie powerts even inlclude ASPARTAME ADDED to it's formula, os if you are trying to avoid aspartame why use a white steiva poweder when some of them have Aspartame or Splenda added?
pretty much everything is processed. when you cook your dinner you are processing and altering the chemicals in your food. and everything is made of chemicals, natural and unnatural.
to get white stevia all they do is extract the rebiana with hot water and then turn it white with ethanol (booze) which is evaporated off and therefore gone. there's no aspartame or sucralose added, look at the ingredients.
truvia has erythritol which is natural sugar alcohol.
@RoderickStrong If they do, it will be very clearly listed on the ingredients and anyone with enough sense to read them can avoid that product. Personally I have checked out a lot of stevia powders and haven't ever seen aspartame or sucralose or any other artificial sweetners listed in their ingredients. I think it would be extra stupid for a stevia brand to do that, considering their demographic is specifically trying to avoid artificial sweetners.
"why use a white steiva poweder when some of them have Aspartame or Splenda added?"[sic]
What do you think Splenda is? Splenda is sucralose.
We haven't even been talking about diabetics. You're reaching now. Some Stevia has stuff like Erythritol added which is sugar alcohol. So what? There are plenty of plain white Stevia products for those who want them.
And you still haven't provided any names of these products you're talking about. Back up your claims please.
@jwallbanger I'm not trying to get into this, but if you live in the US companies are allowed to leave out some ingredients if there is only a small amount. In Canada you have to list EVERYTHING...we get some stuff from the US that has stickers over the original ingredients list that adds things. Just a passing thought.
@jwallbanger "truvia has erythritol which is natural sugar alcohol."
There's nothing natural about a "natural" sugar alcohol derived from GMO corn. You really need to do your research on Truvia and its parent company Cargill. Cargill's corn is GMO. Truvia isn't stevia. It's corn sugar with a miniscule amount of a SINGLE stevioside added so they can legally advertise it as "made from stevia".
@SuedeHillsOrganic All of this is true but I don't think the extract is supposed to have (or is marketed for) health benefits in and of itself, just offer an alternative to the negative aspects of sugar. So, relative to sugar it is healthier. If one wants more actual nutrients from stevia you should definately go for the whole, raw leaf.
@MrsBooker100 We sell Certified Organic Green Leaf Stevia just go to our website. It is in the description, I will send you a message as I cannot attach a link to this post
Sulfuric acid is added to the process, that's why it's white. without the acid you can't get the white powder. I agree green dried green leaf is healthy . Everything that is overprocessed iis not healthy. OH and the stuff they sell at the supermarket has cornstarch, which they don't have to mention if the packet is less than a gram.
The one I buy is 100% natural.. organic.. I buy the white powder stevia.Today, I ordered the green powder stevia and will give it a try. ^^
thugricanz 4 months ago
Thank you for making this video. I like green stevia but carry packets of Purevia in my purse for on the go coffee. Is there a better source of "travel friendly" stevia?
heartofaz7 5 months ago
Good info, but not all white stevia powders are the same. Stevita brand uses water - and nothing else - in its extraction process. And it uses 5% xylitol - a perfectly-safe sugar alcohol - as a bulking agent. I've never had any issues with Stevita. Now Truvia and PureVia? Those are faux stevia products which are 99% erythritol , with the rest of the products being a SINGLE stevioside - Rebiana/Reb-A - extracted using ethanol and/or methanol.
I have no qualms using Stevita. But good info, anyway
barrybear2011 5 months ago
It's not green to begin with. The pure glucosides are white all along but dissolved in the green leaf tissues, they are separated from the leaf and when they are dried they take on a powder form. The extraction method is very very basic and no unhealthy chemicals need to be used. There's more than one way to extract them though, so if you're concerned ask how they do it before buying. Also keep in mind that other additives may be added to the finished product! Always check the contents.
Soldier957 9 months ago
OMG, i opened your suede hills website in another browser tab at the same time while this video started loading 2s ago, independently O.o scarry.
ssijak 9 months ago
@ssijak haha it happens! Sometimes web browsers have minds of their own!
SuedeHillsOrganic 9 months ago
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WARNING STEVIA IS A MUTAGEN :WICH MUTATES OUR CELLS AS IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH THEM..STEVIA IS A HYBRID PLANT NOT WILD OR NATURAL STAY AWAY PLEASE..LOOK IT UP......!Hybrid plants are plants produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen of another.It's not natural plant found in nature it was created by this prosses.
PastorErickDMarquez 10 months ago
it's green because of chlorophyl. the reason it's white is because it's rebiana, an extract from stevia which is extracted using hot water. by the time they end up with mostly rebiana there's no chlorophyl left from the leaves.
the process they use to make white stevia is very minimal and natural, people like you are using scare tactics.
instead you should be supporting anything that gets people off of sugar which is far worse than lightly processed stevia extract.
jwallbanger 1 year ago 2
@jwallbanger You stated the white stevia is 'processed'. Please explain how all the health benefits that are found in Whole Leaf Green Stevia(besides the sweetness) are still intact in a white refined version? It is doubtful that the chlorophyll is the only thing missing from the refined stevia. There are synergistic benefits from 'Whole Leaf' products that you just can't get from processed extracts. Green Leaf Stevia has health benefits that processed white stevia doesn't. Truth isn't fear!
SuedeHillsOrganic 1 year ago
@SuedeHillsOrganic the main health benefit of stevia is that it's a near-zero calorie alternative to sugar. people don't eat it for it's nutrients, they eat it so they won't wreck their health with refined sugar consumption.
just about every packaged food is processed. dehydrating raw stevia is processing it. white stevia is rebiana, extracted mainly with hot water.
if you want to scare people off of anything it should be splenda, which is basically an insecticide, or other chemical sweetners.
jwallbanger 1 year ago
@jwallbanger Why just add stevia to foods to make them sweet? If you're eating stevia anyways why not eat the whole leaf powder and get more health benefits?
SuedeHillsOrganic 1 year ago
@SuedeHillsOrganic because if you're looking for a healthy alternative to sugar you don't want to eat something that tastes like bittersweet cardboard, you want something that tastes as much like sugar as possible. white stevia tastes much less bitter than green stevia. hybrids like truvia are the best. i don't like the fact that it's made by coca cola, but it tastes much better than regular stevia.
like i said, the main health benefit i want is sweet w/o sugar, i'll eat vegetables for the rest.
jwallbanger 1 year ago
@jwallbanger Have you ever tried Suede Hills Green Leaf Stevia powder? We cannot speak for green stevia grown in China or other parts of the world, but our Green Leaf Stevia does not taste like bittersweet cardboard! I encourage you to try our Green Leaf Stevia and taste for yourself!
SuedeHillsOrganic 1 year ago
@SuedeHillsOrganic HA! I should have known you were setting me up to plug your product. That's just good business, right?
Yes, the level of bitterness and off-flavors varies by the product, but no whole herb stevia makes a good all-purpose replacement for sugar in my experience. For certain things, like tea for instance it's pretty good, and things with strong flavors
I prefer white stevia for general use.
Good luck with your business. You might try in-store demos at healthy grocery stores.
jwallbanger 1 year ago
@jwallbanger WHITE STEVIA POWDER is overprossed and essentially becomes a chemical when it's made white. some white Stevie powerts even inlclude ASPARTAME ADDED to it's formula, os if you are trying to avoid aspartame why use a white steiva poweder when some of them have Aspartame or Splenda added?
RoderickStrong 1 year ago
@RoderickStrong "overprossed?" (wtf?)
pretty much everything is processed. when you cook your dinner you are processing and altering the chemicals in your food. and everything is made of chemicals, natural and unnatural.
to get white stevia all they do is extract the rebiana with hot water and then turn it white with ethanol (booze) which is evaporated off and therefore gone. there's no aspartame or sucralose added, look at the ingredients.
truvia has erythritol which is natural sugar alcohol.
jwallbanger 1 year ago
@jwallbanger like I said, some white stevia powders even inlude ASPARTAME
RoderickStrong 1 year ago
@RoderickStrong If they do, it will be very clearly listed on the ingredients and anyone with enough sense to read them can avoid that product. Personally I have checked out a lot of stevia powders and haven't ever seen aspartame or sucralose or any other artificial sweetners listed in their ingredients. I think it would be extra stupid for a stevia brand to do that, considering their demographic is specifically trying to avoid artificial sweetners.
please list which brands have aspartame.
jwallbanger 1 year ago
@jwallbanger SUCROLOSE NO, BUT DEXTROSE, YES. Dextrose is real sugar, which means diabetics should avoid it
RoderickStrong 1 year ago
@RoderickStrong You said:
"why use a white steiva poweder when some of them have Aspartame or Splenda added?"[sic]
What do you think Splenda is? Splenda is sucralose.
We haven't even been talking about diabetics. You're reaching now. Some Stevia has stuff like Erythritol added which is sugar alcohol. So what? There are plenty of plain white Stevia products for those who want them.
And you still haven't provided any names of these products you're talking about. Back up your claims please.
jwallbanger 1 year ago
@jwallbanger I'm not trying to get into this, but if you live in the US companies are allowed to leave out some ingredients if there is only a small amount. In Canada you have to list EVERYTHING...we get some stuff from the US that has stickers over the original ingredients list that adds things. Just a passing thought.
SuedeHillsOrganic 1 year ago 2
@SuedeHillsOrganic WOW... Why am I not surprised!? Can you please post image(s) or do a video showing these labels?
tubeexcellence 6 months ago
@tubeexcellence That's a great idea tube! I think we'll have that in the works soon!
SuedeHillsOrganic 6 months ago
@jwallbanger Compliments brand stevia powder, it's a store brand from the Sobey's grocery chain. Here in Canada
RoderickStrong 1 year ago
@jwallbanger "truvia has erythritol which is natural sugar alcohol."
There's nothing natural about a "natural" sugar alcohol derived from GMO corn. You really need to do your research on Truvia and its parent company Cargill. Cargill's corn is GMO. Truvia isn't stevia. It's corn sugar with a miniscule amount of a SINGLE stevioside added so they can legally advertise it as "made from stevia".
barrybear2011 5 months ago
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barrybear2011 5 months ago
@jwallbanger "hybrids like truvia are the best"
Google "The Truvia Deception" and I guarantee you'll be saying otherwise.
barrybear2011 5 months ago
@SuedeHillsOrganic All of this is true but I don't think the extract is supposed to have (or is marketed for) health benefits in and of itself, just offer an alternative to the negative aspects of sugar. So, relative to sugar it is healthier. If one wants more actual nutrients from stevia you should definately go for the whole, raw leaf.
Soldier957 9 months ago
Where can you order real stevia?
MrsBooker100 1 year ago
@MrsBooker100 We sell Certified Organic Green Leaf Stevia just go to our website. It is in the description, I will send you a message as I cannot attach a link to this post
SuedeHillsOrganic 1 year ago
@MrsBooker100 you can call our Toll Free number as well 1-877-682-1188
SuedeHillsOrganic 1 year ago
Thank you kind lady.
purpleray22 1 year ago
Sulfuric acid is added to the process, that's why it's white. without the acid you can't get the white powder. I agree green dried green leaf is healthy . Everything that is overprocessed iis not healthy. OH and the stuff they sell at the supermarket has cornstarch, which they don't have to mention if the packet is less than a gram.
isaacsenglish 1 year ago 2