Aztec Sweet Herb
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Posted: Mar/01/2008 5:45 AM PST
The leaves of this herb are supposed to be 1000 times sweeter than sugar. Has anyone here tasted it? It's also supposed to have a secondary taste of camphor. |
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Posted: Mar/01/2008 6:28 AM PST
Are you talking about Stevia? My father in law has used that before, it was pretty effective at sweetening. I think he ordered some that was dried and powdered over the internet. |
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Posted: Jul/05/2008 10:03 PM PST
I know this is an older post but just in case you havent found out anything.... I am growing stevia in my garden. I planted 12 plants and was afraid they werent going to survive because my 7 yr old twins kept picking the leaves off and eating them. They call them sugar plants. I tried using some fresh leaves in my coffee and that was truly nasty. I'm going to dry some in the next few days and try that in my coffee. Will be nice if i can grow my own Splenda!! lol Will let ya know how it tastes after it is dried. |
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 2:04 AM PST
Let us know how that tastes in coffee. Love that line! Grow your own Splenda! The culinary teacher at our voc. school offered me some seeds for the stevia, but he never came through with them. I've never grown any, but I'd like to try it sometime. Maybe I'll remind him and get some when school starts back. |
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 12:04 PM PST
uhh witt i did some digging average stevia seeds have a 30% success rate so heres youre warning might not work oh and try just the leaves from stevia there REALLY sweet fresh off the plant least mine allways are once dryied havent really tryied yet |
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 4:10 PM PST
I read somewhere that plants grown from cuttings are much sweeter than those grown from seed. I bought mine at a feed store so lord only knows how they were grown but they sure are sweet. If the dried leaves work for me, I will be taking some cuttings this fall for next year. |
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 4:53 PM PST
well i think mine may have been from cuttings there really sweet yea and there from a local nursery that takes pride in what they sell so however they were i KNOW there great quality --oh stevia SHOULD cost more fer somne reason or another nope same as any outher herb 3 bucks |
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Posted: Jul/19/2008 2:52 PM PST
Well, I dried some of my stevia and I'm sorry to say that I am greatly disappointed. It still has a nasty taste to it. Yes, it is sweet but, there is a chemical taste in the background. Maybe I am doing something wrong, maybe its to early to be drying it. I am gonna try it again and again until we get our first freeze. |
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Posted: Jul/19/2008 5:17 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by msweetstuff Well, I dried some of my stevia and I'm sorry to say that I am greatly disappointed. It still has a nasty taste to it. Yes, it is sweet but, there is a chemical taste in the background. Maybe I am doing something wrong, maybe its to early to be drying it. I am gonna try it again and again until we get our first freeze.Msweetstuff, I found this site and thought I would post it for you to check out. I thought the info under "How to start your own Stevia patch." was interesting. www.stevia.net/growingstevia.htm |
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Posted: Jul/19/2008 6:58 PM PST
Why thank you ever so much. Great minds must think alike because I have already been there. But, thanks anyway |
