Helping stevia plants brave the cold
Story Date: 3/19/2021

 

Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 3/17/21

It’s a fact – humans love sugar. For those of us who also like to watch our calories, sugar substitutes can help. Some zero-calorie or low-calorie sweeteners have attracted bad reputations for containing unnatural ingredients. But there are also natural sweeteners derived from plants, like stevia. Stevia is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, and it has no calories. The global stevia market is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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