Tag: Homemade sweetener

According to research, stevia is 200-400 times sweeter than regular sugar, which makes it an extremely potent sweetener for baking. The short answer to "Can you make powdered sugar out of stevia?" is yes, but the process and results differ significantly from traditional powdered sugar due to stevia's potency and lack of bulk.

In South America, indigenous communities have used stevia leaves to sweeten food and drink for hundreds of years. While the purified extract from the stevia plant is widely available and approved as safe by regulatory bodies, the question of whether raw, unprocessed leaves are safe to consume directly is more complex. The journey from a green leaf to a white powder involves significant processing that removes potentially harmful compounds, a detail that many home gardeners overlook.