Subject: How to get "stevia" supersweet plant?

From: Michael Ravnitzky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 08:14:44 -0600

Does anyone have information on how to get the "stevia" supersweet 
plant that I heard about on National Public Radio.  It is a couple of 
hundred times more sweet than sucrose (table sugar).  Is it limited to 
a particular climate area?  Can you buy it in a plant store?

A carbon copy e-mail would be helpful, as I don't check here as often 
as I need to.

Mike Ravnitzky
[email-masked]

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From: julie beth wood <[email-masked]>
Date: 3 Sep 1996 14:49:37 GMT

i'm sure you can get Stevia at any good health food store, in it's
dried and powdered form (perhaps in the bulk food section.).  if not, 
see if they can order it for you.  i know that the large Health Food 
Distributors (Tree of Life, etc.) carry it, but i don't know how 
popular it is.  it tastes like really sweet dried powdered grass...i 
definitely prefer table sugar, especially in my coffee.  :)

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julie beth wood
Now conveniently located in Austin!