I Can't Eat This

You all know about the damage that sugar gives to your teeth and to your whole body, don’t you?
If not, just google, or better ecosia, for “sugar body health”. You will find enough about.

If you already know and think: “Oh, that bad, bad sugar makes me fat, makes me blahblahblah. I will drink a coke light and eat fat-reduced yoghurt. That’ll be much better.” Forget about it.

In most of the products that are sweet, but don’t contain any sugar, there is some kind of “sweetener” (doesn’t sound that nice?). The Industrie’s favourite is called Aspartame, often used in combination with Acesulfam. You can find it also under the name “Nutra-sweet” or “Amino Sweet” and several other names.

Aspartame is made of Aspartic Acid (40%), Phenylalanine (50%) and Methanol (aka wood alcohol/poison) (10%).
The Problem is, if I got it right, that Aspartame is split into its components again inside your body. And these components can cause damage to your health. Read more about that at Mercola.com and at dorway.com.

But that is not the worst thing about it. What I really can’t eat is the following:

There is a substance which is more sweet than sugar and is naturally grown!
Stevia rebaudiana or just Stevia. And the best of it all: It causes absolutely no damage to any part of your body!

Is it a wonder that this little plant is prohibited for use in food-products in the European Union and the USA?

Not to me. As it is natural grown, there is no possibility in making patents on it. And without a patent the only way to make profit of it is to grow it, pack it, sell it. And not just selling patents to other companies.

There are several sources on the net to get more information about Stevia and its prohibition.
Maybe you’ll start at the European Stevia Association: