Try this! Grow your own stevia

Say hello to my lil friend!

There’s a movement going on. I call it the “back to green stevia” movement. There’s been alot of backlash with white stevia use. The logic is that stevia is a plant, so stevia should be green, not white. The white stuff is more processed, so it must be bad! Right?

I get the logic, but I don’t believe it’s always practical to use green stevia every time. My angel food cake, blueberry muffins, and coconut ice cream would not only look weird, but the chlorophyll taste just would not work too well. Green stevia tastes like, well, a sweet plant. What else would you expect?

Still, I believe that you should have a choice, and since I have enough white stevia, I went in search of the green stuff.

I still haven’t found any!

I remember when green stevia was all you could buy. It use to be sold as dried leaves. That was it! I would use it when I made detox teas, when I didn’t want to sweeten with sugar. I would put about a tablespoon in with the other herbs and about 6 quarts of water. That tablespoon sweetened the whole pot! I’d strain the tea into a pitcher and store it in the fridge for gradual sipping.

Gradually, stevia became more refined, becoming a green powder and finally a white powder. I never used the white powder much, but when I started this diet, white stevia became my go-to sweetener.

Now that I want to have some green stevia powder, and leaves, of course I can’t find any. But I can find stevia plants! I think that is really strange, but they were right there in my garden center, just waiting for me to take them home. I bought two, and I’m planning to make my own stevia powder this year.

Green, of course!