Originally Posted by steveknight
But then we have all the artificial sweeteners that are perfectly safe. The problem is money that really pays to find out something that is almost free is bad for you? Who won’t pay for testing on something that makes a huge profit?
The only reason stevia is not in foods is because it will not make anyone a profit. So we suffer with bad for us products so someone can make a buck.
So the fact that stevia is used is by millions of people does not mean that the people who sell it are making big profits? There is a possibility for a huge market considering all the diabetics that could benifit from a sweetener that does not have the physiological effects of cane of beet sugar
It seems that one of the main reasons that stevia is not is foods is because the government will not allow it to be used as such.
There have been tests on stevia, and they seem to point to the same thing.