Herbal & Naturopathy

Stevia: The Wonder Herb

Stevia Rebaudiana is a perennial herb from Paraguay that is steadily gaining greater patronage in growth of global natural food market. A 100% calorie-free herbal sweetener that is ideal for diabetics, it is gradually supplanting conventional cane sugar across the world. Besides being a sweetner, it also possesses hypoglycemic, anti-fungal, hypotensive and vasodilator properties. It is also a rich source of beta-carotene, aluminum, ascorbic acid, ash, calcium, chromium, iron magnesium and numerous other phytochemicals. The use of stevia is contnously increasing use by multinational food and beverage companies like Coca Cola and Beatrice Foods to make it a high-potential commercial prospect.

List of culinary herbs and spices

This is a list of culinary herbs and spices. Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring. As such, this list does not contain salt, which is a mineral, herbs or spices that are purely medicinal such as valerian, fictional plants such as aglaophotis, or recreational drugs such as tobacco. For medicinal herbs see list of medicinal herbs.