In April 2007, the ELLE magazine, in its Belgian version, publishes an article on stevia. The tone is resolutely pro stevia; nevertheless, the report is complete, well-documented and gives valuable information to the readers of the magazine. We selected some extracts for you...
P133 to 136 :
In the column "Polémique" " 100 % natural and without side effects, this natural sweetener with zero calorie is boycotted by the authorities of the public health. We would indeed like to know why. "
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Article title :
"THE PLANT TASTING LIKE SUGAR BUT WITHOUT CALORIES EXISTS !"
Some extracts :
" What's stevia? [...] a small miracle of the nature, marketed under the shape of white or green powder... "
" Bio alternative to the aspartame, stevia is accepted in the United States as food complement but not as food or sweetening additive. "
" Same position for the European Union, as a result of a decision of the Committee of February 22nd, 2000, stevia can be sold as decorative plant or as supplement without being able to be integrated into food. "
" And our politics ? In Belgium, the senator Margriet Hermans is the only politics which until now seems to have bent over the question of the stevia. Mother of a diabetic child, thus made more sensitive in the introduction of the stevia in foodstuffs [...] the politician to put foot down downright: « diverse sources indicate that this ban would result from an intense action of lobbying sweeteners as stevia cannot be the object of a patent, so that they are commercially less interesting for the food industry than the aspartame. While recognizing that «the European ban to use the stevioside as food ingredient is in accordance with the principle of caution called for example to approve or refuse the genetically manipulated food.» " |
