La dolce Stevia, la green revolution!
I'm a woman of many passions is known fact ... One of these is for medicinal plants, le erbe spontanee, and Natural Remedies. As soon as I hear about it is as if an antenna on my head to get up to pick up the signal.
The abuse of drugs is now under the eyes of all. And 'custom queuing not the grocery store ... but in pharmacy! Mah! 🙁 Dobbiamo fare un passo indietro, and return to the old system once, where possible of course.
I recently path 400 km to listen to a doctor in a castle in Piedmont. Together they discussed the nature, of biological… concept sometimes abused and not always actually practiced, e di rimedi naturali. Ma è stato il nome, and above all the properties of a plant to capture my attention: the Stevia Rabaudiana. Do you know? Tell the truth, however,! 😉 I've known this day. Next, home, I began to search for information, and to my amazement I discovered that many like me, did not know her at all… experts and non-experts. I was determined, and I strongly believe that someone would write it as it should be. L’amico Justin Catalano accepted my request…
Dolce Stevia ... the green revolution!
Justin Catalano
Personally, I never believed in conspiracies in the food even though many times I have found in practice that existed. That of Stevia Rabaudiana, and not because I say so, But it seems to be right according to many. But how would her friend Cynthia Tosini we start from the ground up!
The Stevia rebaudiana is a perennial plant native to the border area between Paraguay and Brazil. In full development reaches 80 inches tall. The particularity of this cute and evergreen shrub, is that it has the power to sweeten, and who has worked from the South American populations have always. Many of you will say that in nature many other plants have such power. True.
You should know, however, that studies carried out by this plant you can use both in the form of fresh leaves and dry. Once chopped their sweetening power is 20/30 times higher than that of the same amount of sugar. This power becomes 200/300 times greater if you use an extract, that if concentrated in water, lo è ben 70 times more!
Great sweetening power. Interesting but nothing new here either except that is natural unlike other substances commercially. But it does not end here ... I would say that here comes the fun.
Here's what they found the studies carried out:
- It contains no calories and therefore it is excellent in diets without having to renounce sweeten.
- It does not alter the levels of sugar in the blood and is therefore suitable for diabetics.
- Inhibits the formation of dental plaque and caries and therefore can be used in these toothpastes
- Reduces cholesterol levels.
- And also, can be worked in the kitchen, in cosmesi, is antibacterial, antifungina, increases antioxidant defenses protecting vessels and the cardiovascular system, heals dermatitis and eczema ... in short, a miracle of nature!!
But where is it you ask ...? Until a few months ago was banned in Europe (Excluding Switzerland!). Why…? He was suspected of being carcinogenic.
The strange thing is that this plant endeavors throughout South America (even in Brazil folk medicine as a remedy for diabetes), in Mexico, in Canada and the U.S., throughout Southeast Asia also coming to be the sweetener of some well-known beverage with bubbles in Japan, e in Israele.
In short lacked only we Europeans call ... why do not you know. Perhaps we are more cautious than others and the things we get there after a few millennia of experimentation!!
Now I do not know if we can talk about conspiracy, but the fact is that since it was permissible to use extras are the first packets of this miracle, and plants grow on your balcony ... It, because each of us could coltivarsela dolcificarsi and what they wantSin ... that there are not so easily on the market. Only known sites online someone is.
Strange coincidences… What is certain is that if each of us could end up on their balcony coltivarsela a large market that is refined sugar ... and begin the first real big green revolution!