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Transcript: Stevia - Sweeter Than Sugar Without Any Calories
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- August 24, 1996
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Ketzel Levine joins Scott Simon and Ron McCaleb of the Herb Research
Foundation in Colorado about a plant that is 300 times the sweetness
of sugar and contains zero calories. It is known as Stevia rebaudiana.
SCOTT SIMON, Host: It's been a broiling summer in the West, cool
in the East-
[automatic sprinklers in operation]
SCOTT SIMON: -so how is the coolest customer we know - our own custodian
of the columbine, the czarina of the Zinnia, our own Ketzel Levine
- faring in that broiling pan we call the American West?
Ketzel joins us from member station KOPB in Portland, Oregon.
Ketz, thanks for being with us.
KETZEL LEVINE, Commentator: How are ya?
SCOTT SIMON: ...