New Delhi, Nov 1 With the festivities kicking in, first Dussehra and Navratri, Diwali round the corner, and its only a matter of time before Christmas; the calories keep mounting!
All the sugar you consume in the form of ladoos and jalebi's can be substituted by a shrub. Stevia is a bushy shrub that is part of the sunflower family. It is a natural, non-nutritive sweetener that contains little to no calories. Stevia leaf extract is a high-intensity sweetener that can be 200-350 times the sweetness of sugar. The intensity is one of the reasons it has zero calories - it takes very little stevia leaf extract to sweeten to the equivalent of sugar. It's safety has been verified by the US FDA
( With inputs from IANS )
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