How To Process Stevia Into Powder
How To Process Stevia Into Powder walks through a simple home-scale method for turning fresh stevia into dried leaves and a powdered sweetener. This video covers the two easiest end products most growers can make, shows the harvest process step by step, and explains how drying, grinding, and sifting turn fresh leaves into a usable natural sweetener.
What this video helps you do
The focus here is minimal processing. Instead of making a white or liquid extract, this page shows how to process stevia into two simple end products: dried leaves and a sifted powder sweetener.
- How to harvest stevia leaves cleanly from the plant by stripping and sorting branches.
- How to dry the leaves while preserving more of their nutritional value by keeping temperatures low.
- How to separate larger leaves for whole-leaf sales or storage, while using smaller leaves for powder.
- How to grind and sift the final product into a fine sweetener with a long shelf life.
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Harvest, dry, grind, sift
The stevia in this video is processed in the most straightforward way possible. Larger dried leaves can be saved whole, while the smaller leaves are dried, ground, and sifted into powder.
- Harvest: remove leaves from the stem and sort them by size.
- Dry: use sun drying, an oven, or preferably a dehydrator at around 120 to 125 degrees.
- Grind: blend the dried leaves into a smaller, more usable form.
- Sift: separate the finest powder from the larger pieces for the final sweetener product.
Gear Used In This Video
These are the exact tools linked in the video description for drying, grinding, sifting, and harvesting stevia.
