We’ve been scouring the web for a few days now trying to find out just how much stevia we would need to sweet a pitcher of iced tea or a cup of coffee…or how much we’d need for baking or whatever. We finally found the information on this website which offers the following table, recipes and more about the plant:
| Granulated Sugar | Whole Stevia leaf powder | White Stevia Extract (powder) |
| 1 teaspoon | 1/8 teaspoon | Dust on spoon |
| 1 Tablespoon | 3/8 teaspoon | 1/2 pinch |
| 1/4 cup | 1 1/2 teaspoon | Pinch |
| 1/2 cup | 1 Tablespoon | 1/8 teaspoon |
| 1 cup | 2 Tablespoon | 1/4 teaspoon |
Very impressive to say the least and also very much in line with what we read earlier about one plant producing enough stevia to last you a year.
We got our seeds today from Exoga.de and are excited to start trying them out. I actually started a few of the seeds today in hopes that they will start to grow. We read that only 20% of brown seeds sprout versus 80% of black ones. Quite honestly, I can barely tell the difference between one and the other. But I dropped about 5 in each cup with a moist paper towel and we’ll see how they do. This has been the most successful route for us so far when it comes to getting seeds to sprout so hopefully it will work this time around also. Of course, if by some odd chance all of them sprout, I guess all of our friends and family are going to have their own plants as well 🙂
And just as a personal note for anyone out there who wonders if this plant really can be that amazing, they included a small dried leaf in the seed packet that we received. I was quite curious so I just broke off two tiny pieces, maybe a 1/4″ square each and it is amazing how sweet it actually is. I’m really, really hoping these plants take off because that will be so much healthier for us and fun to tell people that everything is made from our own natural sweetner! 🙂
