SCI 228 Week 2 Lab Assignment; Stevia.

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SCI 228 Nutrition, Health, And Wellness With Lab

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Student NameSCI228 Nutrition, Health & Wellness w/Lab DeVry UniversityProfessor: Nazia Sadat What is Stevia?Stevia is the sweetener I have chosen for this week’s lab assignment. Unlike other sugar substitutes, stevia is derived from a plant. The stevia plant is part of the Asteraceae family, related to the daisy and ragweed. Several stevia species called candyleaf are native to New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. But the prized species, Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni), grows in Paraguay and Brazil, where people have used leaves from the stevia bush to sweeten food for hundreds of years.Moises Santiago Bertoni, an Italian botanist, is often credited with the discovery of stevia in the late 1800’s, even though th

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