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Pictures of  some of the  Stevia  plantations  in the State of Parana, in southwestern   Brazil.  We use the  leaves of these plants  to naturally extract the stevia sweet crystals which are at least 95% pure. Only the leaves are utilized  in the extraction process.

 

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A view of one of the stevia plantations...
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A close up of a single stevia plant.
 

Most of the leaves that we  process  belong to the original native stevia  plant ( known as "Criola") from the areas between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. These leaves produce on the average 8 to 12% sweet crystals known as "steviol glycosides". There are 7 different types of steviol glycosides - they all are sweet tasting , but with different sweetness profile and intensity. The most common is the stevioside (60%), followed by Rebaudioside A ( 30%). The 10% balance is distributed among the remaining glycosides, namely, Rebaudioside C, Dulcoside A, Rubusoside, Steviolbioside and Rebaudioside B.