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Ingredients:

2/3 cup low-fat plain yogurt
1 ½ tablespoons lecithin granules
4 tablespoons Naturally Sweet Xylitol
3 tablespoons golden flax seeds, ground
10 ounces frozen unsweetened strawberries
1 ¼ cups ice water

Method:

Place all ingredients in blender, process until smooth and creamy.

Nuritional Analysis:

Cal: 134 Carbs: 23.3g Fiber: 4g Fat: 4.8g Sodium: 36.4mg NetCarbs: 8.7g

Serves:

4 cups

Recipe Courtesy of “Sweeten Your Life The Xylitol Way” by Karen Edwards

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour - 1 Cup
Oats - 1 Cup
Dry Ginger Powder - 2 Teaspoons
Baking Soda - 1 Teaspoon
Naturally Sweet Stevia - 4 Tablespoons
Vegetable Oil - ½ Cup
Lemon Juice - 1 Tablespoon
Thick Yogurt - 2 Tablespoons
Bananas - 3 Medium Sized

Method:

Peel & mash the Bananas, mixing it well with lemon juice and set aside.
Mix all the dry ingredients.
Mix the Oil, Yogurt and Bananas, beating it well.
Combine the dry & wet ingredients, folding gently and pour into a greased bread loaf tin.
Bake for 30 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 180⁰C. Check with a knife coming out clean.

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Ingredients:

2 cups fat-free milk
1/4 cup arrowroot powder
1 1/3 cups Naturally Sweet Xylitol
4 egg yolks
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup reduced-fat sour cream
1 cup whipping cream

Method:

Place milk in a small saucepan and heat to almost boiling. Remove
from heat and set aside. Combine arrowroot powder and xylitol
in a medium bowl. Thoroughly beat egg yolks into xylitol mixture.
Slowly add scalded milk to egg mixture, stirring until well blended.
Transfer this mixture to top of double boiler, and cook over boiling
water, stirring constantly, until custard is thick and smooth. Strain,
if necessary. Stir in vanilla extract, and pour mixture into a large
bowl. Stir in sour cream until thoroughly combined, cover bowl, and
refrigerate until chilled.

Beat whipping cream until soft peaks form. Gently fold whipped
cream into chilled custard mixture. Transfer to small automatic ice
cream maker and freeze.

Nutritional Analysis:

Per Serving: Calories: 194.1 Carbs: 25.3g Fiber: 0.1g Fat: 11.7g
Sodium: 45.8g Net Carbs: 6.5g

  Citrus Cooler:

1 whole lime cut into 6 pieces
6 mint leaves
8oz sparkling water
5 Drops of Lemon Liquid Stevia

Mix fruit and lime in glass until flavours
are mixed together. Add ice and
sparking water, serve and enjoy.

Vanilla Cocoa Shake:

1 cup rice milk
2 teaspoons un-roasted, un-sweetened cocoa
powder
6 ice cubes
7-9 drops SweetLeaf Vanilla Creme Liquid Stevia

Blend all ingredients together in a blender. Serve
immediately.

What you’ll need

• ½ cup refined oil
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup yogurt
• 1 large ripe banana (mashed)
• 4 1/2 tbsp of Naturally Sweet Stevia
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• 1 ½ cup flour (maida)
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder

How to make

• Grease muffin moulds.
• Beat the oil and eggs in a mixing bowl, add yogurt, mashed banana, Stevia and vanilla essence.
• Sift flour, baking soda & baking powder, add to the liquid mixture and beat till the batter smoothens
• Pour into greased muffin mould and bake for 30 minute

Serves 12 muffins

Stevia is a natural sweetener made from the leaves of the Stevia plant. It comes in powder extracts, liquid form or Stevia leaves (fresh or dried).  Some countries have accepted it as a food additive or sugar substitute while others consider it as a dietary supplement.  It’s basically like sugar, adding sweet taste to food and drinks.  But that’s also where their similarity ends – its sweet flavour.

It has zero calories, zero carbohydrates and zero GI (glycemic index). So it’s effective for those with diabetes or hyperglycemia, though if you suffer from diabetes or hyperglycemia, as with adding anything new to your diet, it would be wise to consult your doctor first before you use Stevia. Unlike sugar, Stevia is natural, healthy and even offers some health benefits.  Just how great is Stevia for our health?  Well it’s:

• Anti-bacterial
• Anti-septic
• Anti-microbial
• Anti-oxidant
• Anti-glycemic
• Anti-hypertensive

It’s natural and promotes general health and wellbeing that’s why it’s becoming more popular as a sugar alternative.

Stevia in Cooking and Baking

You can use Stevia in cooking and baking just like sugar, with some caveats. In baking, you may need to use half Stevia, half sugar for some recipes. Since many forms of Stevia can be much sweeter than sugar, you often will need to use a lot less to pack the same sweetness punch. Most store-bought Stevia sweeteners will tell you what ratio to use. Dried Stevia leaves can be 10-15 times sweeter than sugar, so if you’re cooking with the dried leaves, you’ll want to start off with a small amount and flavor to taste.

• Enhances flavour. Stevia’s sweetness can bring out food’s flavors, like sugar does
• Non-fermentable, so not suitable for making fermented foods and drinks.
• Heat stable or heat resistant
• Water soluble, just like sugar
• Does not brown in baked goods like sugar does. If you want your baked good to brown, you’d want to use half Stevia and half sugar (or another sweetener, like honey or maple syrup).

Some people notice an “aftertaste” with Stevia. Mixing it with sugar or another sweetener, like honey or maple syrup, makes a big difference here.

Products that contain Stevia such as tea, tablets, toothpaste, mouthwash, food, beverages, etc. can help you improve your health and lifestyle.  What’s even better: Stevia has been developed by many companies using excipients that ensure that its taste is as close to cane sugar as possible so you will not miss your daily sweetness intake, but without the adverse affects of cane sugar.

Other useful information about Stevia

Stevia contains several all-natural nutrients, such as chromium, magnesium, manganese, potassium, selenium, zinc, Vitamin B3 and more.  It’s being used in drinks, teas, candies, ice cream and other consumer products by companies and countries around the world.  It shows no toxicity risk and poses no threat to one’s health and only has positive health claims. After more than 60 years usage in Japan, for example, no adverse reactions or findings have been recorded against Stevia.

Stevia provides us with a better alternative to processed sugar and artificial sweeteners. I guess that’s the best proof that Stevia is good for our health.

According to a report published by the International Diabetes Institute in Helsinki, Diabetes affects approximately 135 million people worldwide, with a forecast of over 300 millions by 2025 by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Approximately 3 million people die of diabetes each year, which can be thus considered an epidemic in some countries where it is increasingly the main cause of death.  Now it is also widely known that diabetes can affect male virility and even cause impotence.

The Institute has also pointed out how little medicine treatments have changed the current scenario since the first insulin injections back in 1921. They do stress, though, what a leading role a change of habits and lifestyle could help modify patients’ quality of life by taking physical exercise and eating a healthy diet.

Other properties

Having carried out myriads of tests it has been concluded that stevia has got anti-acid, antibacterial, anti-diabetic, cardiotonic, digestive, diuretic, sweetening, hypoglycaemic, hypo-tensing, metabolic enhancing  and vasodilating properties.

Beneficial effects in fat absorption and blood pressure have also been proven. Some tests have even gone on to prove its antibiotic qualities, particularly efficient against oral mucosa bacteria as well as against the fungi that cause Vaginitis and Candidiasis in women.