Skip the sugar — this is a garden-grown herb that packs a sweetness that's many times stronger, making it a natural go-to for ...

(For details on growing many other vegetables and fruits, visit our Crop at a Glance collection page.) If growing your own calorie-free, natural sweetener sounds too good to be true, it’s time to get ...

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In this week's Fielding Questions, Don Kinzler identifies a mystery vine, offers tips on harvesting stevia and give guidance on removing unwanted daylilies. A reader asks gardening columnist Don ...

Consumer demand for natural, plant-based ingredients combined with their desire to cut back on sugar without sacrificing taste is creating a perfect storm for stevia sales to grow exponentially, ...

Looking for a fun gardening project for chasing away your winter blues? Why not try growing Stevia in your windowsill garden. It may not be the most ornamental of plants, but hopefully will present a ...

Stevia is a tropical herb from South America that grows well in our climate during the spring and summer. Although many times sweeter than sugar, it has no calories, so it is growing in popularity.

PureCircle’s first move was developing a proprietary strain of the stevia plant, StarLeaf, which contains 20 times the amounts of Reb D and Reb M. The company announced in February that it would be ...

The food industry has created many plant-based, low- and no-calorie sweeteners to meet consumer demand for more sugar alternatives. With so many on the market, however, it's difficult to know which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More recently though, and dating back a few hundred years per one study, South America has been using the leaves of the stevia ...