{"id":6960,"date":"2015-12-22T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2020-04-14T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T19:42:36","slug":"stevia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/stevia\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your own Stevia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the FoodBabe.com &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Stevia is a sweetener made from a plant, so theoretically it should not be bad for you, but keep in mind that arsenic is made from apple seeds.  Also, I would not want to eat poison ivy or hemlock, which are also plants, but alas I digress.  The FDA has deemed stevia (after my lobbying) an acceptable artificial sweetener.  That being said, I&#8217;ve decided to use it for myself.  I eat much of my own food, and the result is I am starting to swell up like a tick.  Yech!  I need to lose weight.  I bought some from Amazon.com to give it a try.  After that is gone, perhaps I will try this method.  Meanwhile, if you want to read more about stevia, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stevia\">read all about it on Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015-11-20-08.41.01.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6962\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015-11-20-08.41.01.png\" alt=\"2015-11-20 08.41.01\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium aiif6962\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the FoodBabe.com &#8211; Stevia is a sweetener made from a plant, so theoretically it should not be bad for you, but keep in mind that arsenic is made from apple seeds. Also, I would not want to eat poison ivy or hemlock, which are also plants, but alas I digress. The FDA has deemed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/stevia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make your own Stevia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condiments-sauces","category-part-of-another-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19344,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/19344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}