As used
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fresh leaves - leaves powder (20/30 times sweeter than sugar)
- Extract Powder (200/300 times sweeter than sugar)
- Concentrated aqueous liquid extraction and / or water-alcohol (about 70 times sweeter than sugar).
The choice depends on what we decided to make.
If you have found the plant Stevia of prepare and decide on their own dust, remember that the collection should be done taking care to leave ready for the next two nodes vegetation on the mother plant.
Branches cut can be put to dry in bunches hanging or lying on a network in a ventilated and shaded until they are completely dried.
At this point simply crumble the leaves finely using a regular blender.
powder sweetens about 20 times as much sugar and can be added to foods and beverages that. You can also convert the powder into syrup just melt a teaspoon (not just one teaspoon ...) in two cups of water (these are not your cup ...). Boil until it is withdrawn enough water to form a syrup.
But remember that the dust that the syrup had a sharp aftertaste that is hard to disguise. Typically in food as well as in the recipes that follow will give you, you use the white stevia extract.
you can chew the leaves well alone as it does for the stalk of licorice. It remains a pleasant taste in the mouth which reduces the feeling of hunger and can be an alternative to snacks that are eaten only to remove the "desire for something sweet."
How to Grow Stevia
What you use the stevia leaves are referred to below you will find directions for proper growing preference for the productivity of leaves rather than the harmony of the plant.
Stevia does not have special needs. It can be grown in pots as in the garden.
To maximize the productivity of the plant 1, the trimming must be done when the plants have reached the height of 10-12 cm. They will go
removed the shoot tip always leaving 1-2 nodes with their foliage to allow the development of axillary jets which, once allungatisi, will, in turn sheared in the same way. In total
pruning will be performed 2.
This will allow a large amount of leaves and especially a more concentrated sugar content.
Once "deck", the plant will be cut for the collection of branches only when they have reached the length of 50/60 cm, because the mature leaves have a greater sweetening capacity of tender leaves. Although
'Stevia is considered a perennial plant, and then characterized by sufficient strength and hardiness for cultivation, it is appropriate to pay proper attention if you want to keep a plant healthy and always with a production of appreciation for what it leaves 'and quality'.
Generally the higher productivity 'coincides with the period from late spring to early autumn. In recent months, the plant can 'be grown outdoors, also exposed to direct sunlight. In these circumstances, the plant is watered and fertilized frequently.
careful, however, that water would not stagnate because the roots rot. Innaffiatela then as that used for bonsai (by removing the pot so that excess water draining away).
The substrate for the plants in a container is made of a mixture of peat and black peat (ratio of 60% and 40%), which add 1 kg per cubic meter of a controlled release fertilizer and an inert element to allow a good drainage of the root.
can also be grown in full light and is' capable of withstanding temperatures close to 0 ° C.
diseases that occur more frequently in the cultivation of Stevia are primarily fungal. There are no particular problems to combat these fungi, but, as the stevia plant for feeding and as a fresh product in the form of a powder sweetener, you should not use pesticides.
The same applies to the attack of insects which prevails among the white butterfly and aphids. And 'advisable to use the integrated control alternating administration of natural pyrethrum with the introduction of natural predators. In order to minimize fungal problems it is recommended that the purchase of the plant is made from commercial producers.
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