HerbaZest Sun-Dried Stevia Leaves - 6oz (170g) - Premium Whole Stevia Leaf - Naturally Sweeter Than Sugar - Zero-Calorie Sugar Substitute - Perfect for Tea, Coffee, and Other Beverages

If you'd like a natural sugar alternative,this one should be it! Depending on how often you used it, it will last you months. I love using this, instead of the powder form/version. I use a tea strainer.

No aftertaste of its own like grown in India stevia I tried. These Peru pure leaves sweeten without overpowering the tea taste itself. Actually, they bring out the tea flavor, coffee as well if you like sweetened coffee. I throw several leaves into a press together with loose tea leaves and keep getting sweet tea even on the second and third steep. The press plunger easily filters out the leaves along with the tea.Suppose can be easily crushed into powder, but can't imagine why. Locals in Central/South Americas chew the leaves, but do not swallow. Think the fibers are not easily digestible. The powdered stevia is made with chemicals that break down the leaf and stem fiber. Not good. These leaves are all natural and sun dried.To bake a pie, I'd brew leaves in hot water for 3-5 min, then add the sweet liquid to the pie instead of sugar and water.Need to experiment a bit with the amount, but it does not take much. 3 or 4 leaves are plenty for a 16 oz mug of tea for 3 brews.Good value, a lot of leaves for the money.

Están bien las hojas de stevia vienen las puras hojas no basura las compro así para endulzar mi café

They're okay but look like they've been eaten by bugs before being dried. They still get sweet and I bought by weight so it works.

These stevia leaves are the best I've ever used. I've been using stevia leaves to sweeten my tea for more than ten years. I've tried a lot of different brands. I've had them whole. I've had them cut. I've even grown my own and dried them. But these stevia leaves beats them all for flavor and sweetness. A little goes a long way. I put some leaves in a tea ball in the morning, and then I use it in tea throughout the day. I drink different types of tea throughout each day, about six cups, and I use that same ball of stevia leaves in each cup of tea. There is still plenty of flavor and sweetness for my last cup of tea at the end of the day.

In the photo, the leaves on the left are from the Mayan Sweet Organic 1.4 oz package: paid $12 for it and the leaves on the right are from the HerbaZest 6 oz package: paid $18 for it.I am throwing out the full package of HerbaZest. As you can see the HerbaZest quality is lower. It’s not as bright green, has more sticks and debris in it than Mayan, and more importantly, it smells gross. It smells kind of sour while the Mayan Sweet smells much cleaner like it should. Yes, the Mayan was more expensive per ounce, but it’s organic and worth consuming. HerbaZest - no way. Going in the trash.

It's not often that I add any sort of sweetener to my teas or coffees, but sometimes there's one that just really needs something to cut some aspect of the taste. Using stevia crystals has never done it for me because I find it to be entirely way too sweet for my preference. I'll opt for regular sugar every time if it comes to that. But I use to have a stevia plant and would pluck leaves off at times when I needed to temper the bitterness or tartness of certain beverages. Unfortunately, that plant has since died off and I have not been able to find a replacement. So when I saw this bag of stevia leaves, I knew this was something that I needed.Yes, these are nice. Sure, not quite the same as a live plant, but sure beats those nasty stevia crystals that I cannot stand. One of the things that I really like about using the leaves is that I can add just enough to sop up or temper any off taste I'm not wanting without pushing it into tasting like that beverage has been sweetened. Of course, if more leaves are added, it will start tasting sweet. That's something that you'll need to practice doing and get use to. So worth having if and when you want to cut your sugar intake but don't like commercial sweeteners, be they artificial or natural.These leaves are in okay shape. Not green and moist like a fresh plucked leaf, but they are not dried out as though they've been sitting in storage for a year or more. They are perfectly fine for your culinary use. You'll just need to work out a way to strain them. Maybe use a tea strainer, or a tea bag sold to bag loose teas. Whatever works best for you.

I've used stevia packets before, but honestly thought they kind of had an aftertaste so I wasn't, ya know, hooked. I was curious to try these to find out if the taste was the stevia or the processing. Let's solve that mystery!So after dinner I made my favorite tea, and tossed 2 leaves (one leaf and a bunch of crumbled bits--it does break up and crumble in the package) into the water. It was plenty sweet and didn't have that weird aftertaste.Mystery solved? Not so fast!Because, when I'd drunk my tea (is this gross? I feel like some of y'all are going to judge me for this) I pulled one of the wet leaves from the bottom of the cup and...there was the stevia aftertaste.So it gives a nice sweetness to the tea itself, without the aftertaste, but the leaves themselves DO have that taste if you slurp on them.I share this in case someone is thinking of trying these but also was not fond of stevia packets.This package has a lot of leaves in it. It is pricy, but considering that one will likely need a leaf or two at a time, the package will last a good long while. Will it last longer than the equivalent amount of white sugar? I don't know, but I think the benefits of using stevia instead of white sugar might help make up the cost difference if there is one.