Lanaken, Belgium   Friday, March 27 1998 - 16:13
Greetings to you Doris!
Sunday, March 22 1998 kl.20:24 Doris Dignard >> Jim Venedam
about "Stevia"
JV>> I'd like to try Stevia, but am not willing to "try" it with a
>> package costing approx $10. I wish some company would come out
>> with a smaller bottle in the $2-3 range.
DD> Can you tell me a bit more about Stevia?  This is the first place I've
DD> heard it mentioned.
As you can see from the message below, I was giving some information about 
Stevia to Marilyn Boissoneault.
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Wednesday, March 11 1998 kl.22:48 Maria Van Rymersdael wrote to Marilyn 
Boissoneault:
MVR> Greetings to you Marilyn!
MB>> I wonder where I'd find it in the first place. I've never heard
MB>> of it before. Is Stevia part of the scientific name?
MVR> The full name should be Stevia Beroudiana Bertoni.
MVR> The plant should already be known by the Guarany indians  in Paraguay
MVR> and Brazil since centuries. The Spainish sailors brought it in the
MVR> 16th century to Europe, but only arount 1930, something has been done
MVR> with that plant. As this moment in Japan, it is the most used
MVR> sweetner. Stevioside should be known in the USA as a diethelp but it
MVR> is not really recognized as a sweetner, which is the same as here in
MVR> Belgium. I just got all this information in my diabetic information
MVR> brochure.
MVR> Greetings from Lanaken, Belgium
MVR>                                  Maria
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Hope this can already help you. I'm quite sure that others will still give 
the information they have available.
Greetings from Lanaken, Belgium
                                 Maria
... Advertising - a pack of nothing but bloody lies.
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