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Stevita Stevia

Stevita Stevia Sweet Crystals brand originated in the mid 1980s, when a group of stevia farmers and investors in southwestern Brazil formed a company to farm and to extract the sweet crystals of the stevia plant leaves.

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Is Splenda safe? by Dana Carpender

I recently got an email from reader Karen Kosel asking exactly that; she followed up by posting me a website that said some really unpleasant things about Splenda - to be specific, that it may cause shrinkage of the thymus gland, which is part of the immune system, and may also cause enlarged liver and kidneys. For balance, they also concluded that sucralose (the chemical that makes Splenda sweet) was probably "not as toxic as aspartame".

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