Frontier Co-op Stevia Herb Powder, 1lb Bulk Bag, Certified Organic | 100% Pure Stevia Powder | Ideal for Baking, Coffee, and Tea | No Fillers, Kosher

Waited a week before posting this. BAD NEWS: No, this is not just a natural sweetener with no taste other than sweet, to mimic sugar. It's minimally processed, so it retains some of its plant flavor. And some of it tends to settle to the bottom of the beverage container. GOOD NEWS: The taste is OK. The wife and I actually like the taste. An acquired taste, but definitely sweet. And this is as natural a sweetener as you can possibly find. It has a bit of a licorice taste to it. And it sweetens beverages perfectly well. OVERALL: We'll definitely buy again. Other forms of stevia are incredibly processed, to the point where we're not sure of the benefit. This form we have confidence in.

It came pretty quick, and when I opened it, I immediately realized it's an original stuff. It makes my foods sweet. Yes, it has some raw and slightly bitter aftertaste, so don't put too much of it in our food. Well, maybe it's not so perfect for coffee, but good enough for teas or other foods, at least you will feel it's natural. I usually mix it with 'regular' white Stevia powder and it's pretty good. Altogether I'm pretty happy and thankful for that, I'm glad that I can have a sweet-enough natural sugar replacement. Keep up the good work guys, I will be a firm buyer in the future ! :-) 2nd review : like a year later, I still has some (I forgot about it) but it didn't go wrong, still just as good when I bought it. 2 thumbs up !

I was doing research and read this would be the best alternative to sugar. I have diabetes and needed an alternative to man made calorie free sugar. This is natural, unprocessed, no calorie and 300 times sweeter than sugar! What can go wrong?!? I see people are giving this a positive light but lets be honest. I had never tried it before and this was the first time ever ordering. YUCK!! This will take a MAJOR life adjustment. To me, it tasted bitter, smelled like fresh cut grass and no amount of it made the tea any better. I was hoping that I could get use to this and make a change. However, every time I smelled it afterwards made me gag. This was not for me. It was grainy and did not fully disolve since it is a plant after all. I figured I would stick to plain water and just use agave nectar for sweetening. I would much rather cut out sugar altogether than to keep using this. Sorry but this was not for me. I had to throw it away. Lesson Learned.

I should warn you- This is a lot to read. This product does exactly as it's supposed to, with NO CHEMICALS. a "pinch", in your fingertips, is equivalent to a teaspoon of white sugar. I use it for ICED TEA. Unlike other "STEVIA PRODUCTS", where chemicals have been used to bleach-out the naturally occurring green color, and the naturally occurring aftertaste, THIS PRODUCT IS THE REAL DEAL. For those of you concerned about your health... Those "White" Stevia products AND "Stevia Drops" are probably more toxic than aspartame, due to the horrendous process they're put through, in order to remove any aftertaste AND to make them "appear" more appealing. The ONLY downside is: Aftertaste The aftertaste takes a bit of getting used-to... If one uses TOO MUCH, it will taste like black licorice... just remember- It's sweeter than sugar, so smaller quantities DO suffice. NOTE: It's easier to add more stevia (if needed) than to remove it (once you've already put it into your food or drink). This is a good product for those wishing to take care of their health.

this powder was not what I wanted, having had experience with the broken leaf and using it mixed into my loose tea leaves. However I decided to try this to try and make my own liquid extract, hoping a whole leaf extract would be healthier than the white powder that is said to be only one component of the whole leaf. I want it more the way God made it. This powder is said on many sites to be about 16 times sweeter than sugar as it sits. for one cup of tea, I'd use about 1/8th tsp. however it tends to be slightly gritty and desiring to make a condensed liquid extract to carry in a dropper bottle and use by the dropperful, here is my method after several internet searches. cold water extraction works best to reduce the bitterness. do not use hot water for this part. put the powder into a jar til half full. I used a quart jar and this package makes three of these quart jar extractions. fill jar half full of powder, add water to fill and cover with lid and shake well til it is all combined. bottom and sides may show evidence of darker sections indicating poor combining so a spoon or spatula could help here. after you've shook it up it will be almost a paste. add more water to get a liquid, maybe filling the jar 3/4 full at this point. let sit for 24-36 hours, depending on season. summer I stick to 24 hours in winter it's cold in my house so I could let it sit longer. set up a coffee filter in some way that allows you to pour the liquid through it. I use a Melitta filter cone but I've used a hand held colander too with a fluted filter in it. pour the liquid through the filter. it can take a few hours to filter it all since the fine powder clogs the pores of the filter. after you've made all the powder into liquid then combine the results in a double boiler or in a Pyrex measuring cup in a pan of hot water. place over the lowest heat you can and heat so the water steams but doesn't boil. keep an eye on it and keep reducing the extract til its as thick as possible. stir once in a while or the solids from the leaves which made it through the filter will settle to the bottom and scorch, giving your extract a caramel flavor. when it becomes thick enough that you don't want to take any chances with it, remove from the pan and add either glycerine or vodka to the one cup measure. I like to use both so that neither flavor is prominent. to do this I add 3 oz of glycerin to the approx. 2 oz of liquid remaining in the measuring cup, then add vodka to the 1 cup line. stir well and carefully pour into 4 - 2oz dropper bottles and cap and label. This extract is freeze proof, safe to carry in your purse or luggage with reasonable protection from breakage and each bottle lasts at least a month for tea, coffee or cereal (mix with the milk before adding the cereal) or even use in recipes. each dropperful equals about 2-3tsp (1 tablespoon) of sugar. I've found it has a bit of green flavor to it but not bad and much less bitter than with heat extraction. if used in anything light colored it can add color. it makes electric green lemonade for my grandson which reminds me of Mountain Dew soda.

Frontier does it again! Stevia powder comes in a mylar bag, perfectly dried, ground, and sifted. If there are stems in there, they are so finely ground up that they can't be detected. Stevia doesn't attract moisture like some other products, but it's still better to keep it in the mylar bag until you are ready to use the product. Then pour the contents into a glass canning jar with a lid to keep the oxygen out and the freshness in. This isn't stevia extract - the white stuff. That stuff is an amazing product, but the process of pulling the sweetness out of the natural product like this is. The white stuff involves dissolving the natural product in resin, and that's where they completely lost me. I'll stick with the nice green product which is nothing more than stevia leaves that have been dried. Use about a half tsp of stevia per gallon pitcher of your product and work from there. Don't drink it immediately as it takes about an hour for the liquid to fully pull the sweetness into the drink. Once that happens, the remaining part of the plant will sink to the bottom and join the dregs of the rest of your product. If you try to drink it right away, the sweetness won't be there, but there will be a bit of flavor that reminds you of dry wheat grass - not particularly pleasant. After an hour, there won't be that flavor any more.

I purchased this as a healthier alternative to the (highly processed) white stevia leaf I use in my tea. No matter how much or little I use of the green stevia, it doesn't really sweeten the tea to taste anything like what I get from the white stevia. Straight rooibos and straight honeybush teas are pleasant tasting with the green stevia leaf, but nothing else (and I drink many, many different teas.) I'm glad I tried it but I won't repurchase. Update: I can never bring myself to toss something "good", and so tried the following with my (large!) package of green stevia: I mixed a portion with water to a sludge consistency then heated it to evaporate out as much water as possible on the warmer element of my stove top. Then I spread it out on wax paper and popped it into the oven at 200 degrees until dry and crumbly. I wasn't expecting much but I am amazed at the change in flavor. The "green" taste is mostly gone (color remained intact) and I actually like it in my tea.

I first learned about stevia when my local organic grower offered it in his line of herb seedlings. I bought one plant to try in my herb garden and when it got big enough to start harvesting from, I started trying it in different dishes. I loved it. Summer is over, the frosts have come, and the plant is long used up but I got so addicted to it that I went looking for dried stevia to get me through the winter. This 1-lb bag of powdered stevia from Frontier was the best I could find. It's works well as a substitute for the fresh leaves -- as long as you use it sparingly. I use fresh or dried stevia wherever I use basil, such as pasta and couscous dishes with vegetables or mushrooms -- use both basil and stevia. Stevia complements lemon juice very well when that's one of the ingredients. For a quick sauce, I mix the dried stevia with a bit of olive oil and drizzle it on pasta or cheese ravioli. Yum! I mix the dried stevia with a bit of water in the bottom of a casserole dish, add peeled and chopped sweet potatoes, stir, and bake (spoon the juice over the potatoes a few times while they're baking). I even use the dried stevia in oatmeal (*real* oatmeal, which is rolled or steel cut oats, soaked in water, and cooked, not that awful powdery stuff that comes in a packet, contains xanthin gum, and has the consistency of glue once cooked). Just remember that a little stevia goes a long way. It has a very intense flavor. Start with a 1/4 teaspoon and work your way up to the taste you like. I would NOT recommend this as a "sugar substitute" for baking. It's not going to dissolve and blend like granulated sugar.

Si vous n'aimez pas qu'il reste un dépôt de poudre dans le fond de votre tasse ou verre après avoir bu votre boisson, et bien changez de crêmerie ! Sinon, très contente et revient nettement moins cher que d'acheter des pastilles pour sucrer ses boissons, ses smouthies et autres recettes. Dans les boissons : pas d'arrière goût particulier, même si ce n'est pas tout à fait le même goût que le sucre. Mais c'est le lot de tous les autres succédanés de sucre. On s'y habitue très très rapidement, car il est agréable.

organic green leaf natural i am so happy.

You do have to get used to the taste and the amount you use but for unrefined Stevia it works well in my cooking

Not sweet enough and the green powder did not mix well.